Arthur Charles Clarke, author of "2001-A Space Odyssey" has passed, only two days after his 90th birthday, in Colombo/Sri Lanka.
One of his quotes -"The truth, as always, will be far stranger." - could stand for the enduring efforts of this forum to bring more reality into Astronomy.
R.I.P., and give my regards to HAL, who is probably still dreaming of the "one-letter-plus" IBM
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