Re: geography nerds?

In message <ih35s35iarrbvili9mg1llp19pm59clv09@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, mike weber
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> writes

>As to the satellites thing - i don't think Clarke's satellites were
>geostationary, but, even if they were...

 Yep, that's why it's also called the Clarke orbit. He posited 3 large
broadcast satellites to cover most of the Earth, at 120 degree
separation, 22300 miles above the Earth's surface.
>
>Clarke once wrote a piece (fiction, but withe a strong grain of truth,
>as i recall) in which it was explained that, at the timehe conceived
>the idea,

 The October 1948 issue of "Wireless World" magazine. It's successor
title, "Electronics and Wireless World" published a facsimile of the
original article in, I think 1988 on the 40th anniversary. I used to
have a copy of the facsimile kicking around somewhere.
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