This seems somehow fitting... the day following Clarke's death, NASA detected a record-breaking four gamma-ray bursts in one day, including the brightest one ever observed, an explosion that occurred 7.5 billion light-years away -- more than halfway to the edge of the visible universe -- but was briefly bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/brightest_grb.html
Of course, they all would've happened at different times in the universe's history, and it would just be happenstance that their radiation arrived here on the same day. But it feels kinda like the universe was giving Sir Arthur a salute.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/brightest_grb.html
Of course, they all would've happened at different times in the universe's history, and it would just be happenstance that their radiation arrived here on the same day. But it feels kinda like the universe was giving Sir Arthur a salute.
