studio wrote:
The writer of "2001" and inventor of the satellite is dead.
It's weird because i just finished reading the last book of the 4
odyssey 3001 last night.
By the way the movie "2001 a space odyssey" in Blu-Ray is amazing,
it's the blu-ray with the best image quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.NeuroWorld.ws
Sadly missed . I've never read any of his works , and really
know very little of him (thanks for the link) . I always-always
thought him to be one of the nicest people who ever was beamed
out of a Television Set . 2001 is perhaps my favorite too , or
at least was for many years .
You mention an 'oddity' ? Well , hold onto your hat because I
also have a story to tell , about last night , after I got your
mail from the server .
I was saddened of course , and checked out your Wiki link for
some time , reading all the text , but not the links . That was
around 10:30 PM on the 18th - Eastern Standard Time . Art had
passed just scant hours before .
Anyway , I continued my ongoing battle with RS until around
3:00 AM and then my eyes were just too tired to go on , so I
grabbed a bite and watched some TV (nothing on) .
I live right on the edge of a very old graveyard with the
oldest stone just ~18 meters from the edge of my 3rd floor
balcony . I make 30 trips a day to that balcony to feed the
birds and small wildlife that live very comfortably in and
around the graveyard and my building .
Here in Niagara it was a very damp , foggy night but I still
did my usual 2 trips an hour just to see if I could spot any
of the raccoons or possum, or maybe even the coyote that has
been hanging around lately .
Very quiet last night with everthing probably bedded down
due to the drizzle and 5 degree Celcius temperature . I was
scanning around anyway but there was absolutely nothing to
see ...
Until I suddenly noticed a very bright light that seemed to
be shining on or coming directly from one of the tombstones .
Now , I do believe in ghosts , have had my experiences as
a child , but I also know that there are no ghosts in this
vicinity , or else I most certainly would have encountered
one long before last night (lived here 20 years) .
I always assume a logical explanation , of _some_ kind .
It was raining , slightly . Polished granite or marble stones
can have a very high degree of refectivity , as we all know ,
especially when wet with rain .
Furthermore , it is not uncommon for relatives to place a
type of light on a stone that will give off a fairly bright
light at night from the energy it has collected all day .
We also know that if the angle of the polished stone was just
right , it could easily reflect a lightsource back to my bal-
cony , which is aprox. 70-80 meters away .
I grabbed the 16X power binoculars that I always have at ready
to see if there were any clues I might gather , but as I assumed,
attempting to use binoc's at night is mostly useless .
I did notice that the higher I could stand the more light I was
seeing , so grabbed a chair and stood on it on the balcony (and
hoped my neighbours were all in bed). Using the binoc's I could
actually see that the light was indeed very bright and seemed to
somehow come from the very top of one of the tombstones .
Unfortunately , I could not get my eyes at an elevation that
would really help me see what was going on at the stone's peak .
I ate , watched TV , made 10-12 more trips to the balcony to see
if I could notice any change but finally gave up and went to bed
and told myself that I would simply have to go sometime soon and
see if there was a new tombstone (I made a mental note of it's
exact location) , or if there was a light placed there , on top .
Well it was foggy and drizzly today too , but I easily did locate
the exact stone and when my binoc's didn't offer any further clues
I hopped the fence and had a look , to see if there were any clues
as to what could have caused this odd ,suddenly new, illumination .
Walked directly to the stone . It was not new but was from
a person who died Noverber 1917 .
god-damn-sam !!! Just looked at the Wiki and Art was born in
december 1917 - perhaps the very month the stone was erected
Whoa ! ... Anyway ...
the stone was not shiny , but was very worn and moss covered
the stone did not have sharp angles that would reflect back
the stone did not have an electroluminescent light on it
the stone did have ...
carved right into it ...
at the very top of it ...
a book
Wow, this story is sick. (and since you did not wrote your name at the
end ...probably a fantasy?? is it?)
I just checked yesterday what happened to me the previous night :
-I finished reading the book of Arthur C. Clark "3001" at around 16:00
to 20:00 pm time of montreal, don't remember exactly.
-Went to wiki to check the news about Arthur (he was not dead at that time).
-After that I satarted reading another book abut posthumanity and
transhumanisme, I was thinking : is Arthur gonna be conserved in
cryogenic when he will died.
-Arthur C Clark died at 1:30 am time of sri-lanka.
-With time conversion it would have died around the same time I was
finishing his book.
This is a weird coincidence.
I lived 11 years in a "haunted house" (no ghost but sound,
moving/appearing objects, voices and electrical problems witness by over
30 people) when I was young (2-13 years old), all my life I have been
studiying theses stranges phenomenon.
I studied parapsychologie with the famous professor "Louis Belanger" a
specialist in paranormal activities at the university UQAM.
In the end, I don't believe that ghost are back from the dead, I believe
there is a link between the memory of places, communication between the
brain and the power of the brain over matter.
There are some very weird things that can happen at times. Like there
was something more to this life.
Jean-Sebastien Perron
