Delivering sand via bucket-based DP
Sad to hear, but Sir Arthur C Clarke has passed away at the grand old age of 90. He wanted to be remembered as a "writer", rather for the myriad of other things he's got up to in his life-time. And that's how I'll always remember him, one of the best SciFi writers and technical visionaries to exist in the 20th Century.
Hat off to Sir Clarke, I read a lot of his books in my "formative" years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm
Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2008/03/19/sir-arthur-c-clarke-moves-on-to-moon-base-alpha.aspx