ARTHUR C. CLARKE: Seven Wonders of the World
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer and visionary, chooses his own seven wonders in a special edition of the BBC TV series (Season 2), 1997. Filmed in Sri Lanka. Thanks to V25021 for the individual wonder-timings!
1) Saturn V 6:04
2) The Rock Fortress of Sigiriya 16:51
3) Microchips 24:43
4) The Mandelbrot Set 27:59
5) Music (Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor) 33:02
6) The Giant Squid 37:27
7) SS433 40:55
Years ago when I was a much younger man stocking shelves at Wal -Mart we had a door greeter Mr Jim . Jim was a quiet unassuming guy that genuinely carried pens in a pocket protector . He passed away suddenly only a few months after I met him . In his obituary we all learned that he had retired as an electrical engineer for NAsA and had worked on the moon shot .
Yeah, if I carried a huge lie with me all my life I guess I wouldn't tell anyone either.
@@johnadams1147 Get wet . Just once . You will like it .
@@johnadams1147 🤦♂️
This is a “YODA” experience. You never know the Jedi master, the Buddha on the road. Always remember that 😂 Don’t be too impatient 😊
@johnadams1147 There are great men who do great things then sadly there's you
I'm proud to find myself watching this once in a while.
Arthur C. Clarke is my favorite science fiction author.
I found this video when I searched "Arthur C Clarke Sri Lanka" on RUclips. I was looking for why he references Sri Lanka in so many of his books. I did not read about or know that he lived there for 40(?) years.
predicted the internet in 1954 too & its on video on You Tube
Science fiction indeed! They never did go to the moon..
@@Paraselene_Tao yeah I recently heard about that and the allegations as well 😞
@@tupacalypse88
Which allegations do you mean?
Back in 1981 I was connecting to Compuserve with a Commodore VIC-20 and a 300 baud modem. Arthur C. Clarke was on there also with a Commodore and I had several chats with him. A brilliant and fascinating man who had a big influence on me.
He was an online groomer even back then.
What a pioneer!
Clarke seems like the type of man that would help you move. Then help you build an 80 foot radio telescope in your new backyard.
Who wouldn't like to have such a grandpa? I would be delighted listening to his stories
I had the great luck as a teenager to visit Sigiriya shortly after it opened up for visitors and even stayed in Arthur C. Clarke's house (he wasn't there at the time, but I met his housekeeper and did get to look through his bookshelves ;) )
1) Saturn V 6:04
2) The Rock Fortress of Sigiriya 16:51
3) Microchips 24:43
4) The Mandelbrot Set 27:59
5) Music (Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor) 33:02
6) The Giant Squid 37:27
7) SS433 40:55
Arthur C. Clarke.
A legend in his lifetimes.........................
Adding : Old Faithfull in Yellow Stone Park.
... was looking for timestamps !!!
thank you
Three on the list being man made may become superseded by advancement if not already and perhaps a fourth. Rock fortresses, giant squids and SS433 (neutron star) probably not.
@@bogusmogus9551 a founder member of NAMBLA!
And of course party to the greatest world wide fraud/conspiracy known to man since the WW2; the Bolshevik Revolution; and the colonisation and competition for control of US.
Every Sunday I would watch Arthur C Clarke, with my grandad. I miss them both....my grandad more, obviously lol.
Watch him on what program?
On youtube...duh
@@jmcbri Arthur C. Clark's Mysterious World 1980
@@johnmartin3735 ; Lol 😂 dude.
I'm sorry for grand dad no longer being here and able to hang out with you. Sounds like you really REALLY A MISS him but one day you will see him again I believe.
Bless you, Arthur. Thank you for educating me out of my ignorance. Thank you for showing me how incredible the universe already is, without having to refer to gods or the paranormal. How the world could use you now...
Amen... or something more secular like "affirmative".
The student must become the teacher, and while most do not have the audience of some, all have their voices and their pens (keyboards).
Well said, Michael Egan. Indeed.
So ignorant.
Creation didn't create itself.
He is not a national treasure. He is a planetary treasure. Quite possibly a galactic treasure.
He's actually a pedophile. Do your homework before you worship.
Arthur C. Clarke: once in a while a creation comes along; the only similarity is its human form! He then proceeds to astound you with his vision and childlike astonishment and wonder in what surrounds us in unlimited possibilities; so beautifully composed. He wanders now for eternity with Bach's 'Toccata & Fugue in D' reverberating through the Cosmos. Thank you BBC TV as always
We've never been richer, never been more connected and never so boring.. We need to be doing more things like these. We are a generation with no stories.
a generation with no stories.... soooooo true!!!
I agree. But what does "we are a generation with no stories" mean, anyway?
That's the problem with capitalism. There's no money in space exploration and science and unfortunately there's a lot of those in reality TV and smartphones.
@@biozelink6086 true
@Harry Browneigh Oh my God... but somehow, I could be better than them.
One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.... And a gentleman.
Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clark were my two favorite Si-Fi writers growing up. You can see from this video what made the later man tick. He had an insatiable curiosity, and was fascinated by some things I didn't even know existed.
This video is great, I really wish he was still around. He deserved to live longer!
I wish he was alive too. To see the expression on his face playing with all this new technology would be incredible.
you died too
Asimov was a great guy, Magpie, but since he's not around, its up to us to be part of the same greatness of mind and potent imagination whether we get a publisher, or even write a book, or not, because... o.0!
No! Please Mr Bishop! Nothing that complex! Go play on Philip K Dick comments or I'll spray you with Ubik!
... and John was never heard from again.
I really miss his tv programs and narration, this was a nice blast from the past :)
A man way ahead of time RIP
Wonderful man, a man I could never get bored of listening to.
I remember watching his Sunday night mysteries and also his documentaries has a young child in amazement. He was definitely way ahead of his time and within the same caliber has Hawkins and such!
He was a child abuser -in the worst way-.
Pick your heroes more carefully.
Who is Hawkins?
What an amazingly astute and farsighted man.
Thank you for the upload.
"Character" - the man had great Character - Mature Minded with Integrity -
An example for each of us to apply conscious thought efforts toward...
Inspiring -
What a pleasure to find this evening, thx for uploading!
I love Arthur C. Clarke. I have read all his books since I was 13. I am now 67. And I find this man's mind fascinating.
I just red the Space Odysse saga. Well, he truly was a visionary man.
Thanks you.
the Collection of Short stories by Mr Clarke is one of the most mind-opening and mind-expanding reads of my life
I remember first watching Arthur C. Clarke back in 1992 at the age of 10, staying at an old school beach hotel, I turned on the tv while my father was fishing on the beach and my sister in the pool, saw an episode about the Bermuda Triangle, to this day I cant find the very episode I saw but it made me look at the horizon of the ocean in a whole different way
Was a collection called "songs of diatant earth" i think, was awesome. Loved it, made me read many of his other books
We miss people like him. His forward looking open mind has made a great contribution along the way and is still relevant now and in the future. We were lucky to have him with us.
Strange that he commissioned a UFO monument in my Scottish local the very same year he did the same in a shitty outback town in Australia. Reeks of world government propaganda.
And once more.... Many indications suggest Clarke is a founder member of NAMBLA.
Not a man to be celebrated in his fullest, or recommended without reservation.
Sure I don't have proof to convince you; or to defend myself from a libel action.... But it's my moral duty to share my firmly held belief and point the sensitive and research minded towards the existence of much suspicion, shade and at least circumstantial evidence that he was involved in abominable crimes (NASA scams and militarism aside.)
@@oldpondfrog788 Interesting, this is a side of him I have not explored before. Thx.
I loved this! Thank you for sharing!!!
This was awesome, thanks for posting!
Anyone who has seen 2001 but has not read the book, should do so. It's amazing, I prefer it to the movie.
some people just don't like to read fiction books mate
some people just don't like to read fiction books mate
some people just don't like to read fiction books mate
Yeah, me too. But the movie a lot of people watched and the book no. New medium.
Agreed, it makes perfect sense, whereas the film doesn’t without an explanation.
Arthur C Clarke....you can never RIP as your books and intellect will last forever. You have been a great giver to humanity. Your inspiration has created science. I formally thank you for my childrens future.
His description of the Saturn V is what I felt watching a space shuttle take off from Titusville. It changes you.
Man, was he loved in Soviet Union! One of the most popular American writers.
He was english. 🙂
@@lisasimpson4574 Who cares?
D.S. ain't here for facts.
I think they will be all too aware he was English, talk about say what u see.. Lol
Anyway, yes he was adored here in the uk and highly venerated.. This man is responsible for us being able to communicate with each other via a app on a video channel. How amazing is that if u took time back even 20years ago.. We would not assume to imagine fb or utube or God help us tik Tok. Lol... Scientific evolution is truly a spectacle to Behold. I wish Arthur would have just gotten to see the advancement of mobile phones to what they are today. He would have been so proud and rightfully proven right in his premonitions of decades past. Shame we lose these incredible minds., life, a wondrous thing but also a cruel bastard.
Ruskies love radiation on their cornflakes.
Thanks for the upload, grew up watching his programs and read some of his books, amazing mind
Great tribute video.Clarke's interest of science 🔭 reaches the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. Glad he got to see man reach the Moon 🌑 and photograph deep space. See you on the flip side.
What a BRILLIANT mind!!!
Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov were some of my favorite go to's for science expansion and creative imaginative journeys.
Don't forget the "e" at the end of his name!
Unquestionably one of the most philosophical thinkers in science and technoology today! Always love watching anything about him and reading his stories!!!
What a total legend.
What a beautiful time machine... Thanks for posting this.
One of my favorite writers in my childhood I read many of his stories . Later in life learning more about him that he was more than just a science fiction writer was very impressive. A little later in life somewhere around the birth of RUclips I found something that identified him as being gay and at that point I really did not care... it's like my introduction to him was about so many wonderful mind-expanding things have benefited me as well as broadened my perspective and appreciation of the Sciences... now if the first thing I've learned about him was that he was gay before I read any of his books my mind would have already been Limited. I think his character is something a lot of these lgbtq people could benefit from... Stop screaming in the streets about your sexual preferences, nobody's telling me that you can't do whatever you want to cuz apparently everybody's already doing whatever they want to oh, there is no Injustice... Now go out be human participate with the rest of us create and build something to inspire others stop focusing on sexuality it is a very small part of life. Sorry that's my rant. I have nothing against gay people and I totally appreciate Arthur C Clark. The world we live in is focused on so many of the wrong things it's hard for anyone to move forward
Today Commemorates Arthur C. Clarke's 100th Birthday
Growing up in the Fifty’s and Sixty’s, the thing I liked about ACC was his effort to base sci-fi on actual things we can do or could do. Lots of other good sci-fi authors then too, but ACC was a league of his own. Truly a man of vision.
Arthur C. Clarke is one that make you sit an just listen and try to absorb his thoughts.
Fist SF book I read as a child was A fall of Moondust in 1961. SF has fascinated me ever since.
I think A Fall of Moondust is quite mundane. Perhaps you were lucky to start with one of the not so spectacular opuses.
What an amazing, brillant person!
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Love that movie :-)
It is my favorite.
Great video thanks it's so weird we can't get back to the moon in 2021. But no problem for 1960s
The best of RUclips. Thanks!
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. During the 70's and 80's you could park right out front. Then a short walk inside and all the gadgets and gizmos were awesome! I think it was free at the time. And that TRAIN!
To see real wonders and have them explained is far more worth my time than are miracles .
I use to love watching Arthur C Clarke's mysterious world ,it would have the crystal skull as it's mascot . Omg gonna have to search for them now . 😁
This was one of my favorite shows in the 90s
I would like to live long enough to see the first Moon base named "Clarke Base".
Too late.
Way too late.
200 comments on this deeply thinkable video, 120 000 comments on a video with a dancing cat. Is mankind really ready for this extraordinary man's thoughts?
I think this is the first time I've seen the Great Master genuinely laugh. (@3:27). Wonderful!
Thank you for sharing this! ACC made some amazing tv!
An impertinent young journalist asked Clarke 'are you gay'. 'Well, I'm mildly cheerful'.
He should have asked him if he likes young boys.
@@johnadams1147 You know, it's wearying to still hear ignorant idiots imply that all gay men are pedophiles. It's never been true, but that doesn't stop anti-gay ass*oles from saying it and sniggering.
"What do you think?"
His greatest gift.
great show !
*The Saturn V rocket... My God... that much weight so well balanced, with that much highly combustible fuel so perfectly metered. All designed by pencil to paper with slid rules and compass... Just wow. Truly Incredible!*
A great man from Somerset. Loved the mysterious world series as a child
That and the world at war
No danger of anything so engaging or intelligent now
If I remember, it was on tv on a Sunday evening....am I remembering that right? I remember watching with my grandad. Those were the days. Everything seemed so much simpler back then.
Rendezvous with Rama is superb.
Happy birthday Arthur!
Aaahhhh… reminds me of a forgotten time when men had integrity, complexity and elegance
We believe the great books we are recommended .......we believe the telly we watch too
Absolute national and world gem. Carbon 16 so close to graphemes . These are the type of minds that make it optimistic for us to be human !! The gem being Arthur not graphene carbon or diamond ( actual gem )
❤Thanks! Arthur and Stephen ❤
What a brilliant documentary
Arthur C. Clarke IS one of the seven wonders of our world.
this was great. thanks for sharing. learn t a lot.
He's the man. His book: "Childhood's End" is prescient about what's happening in the world exactly now.
You are the first person who has ever thought that besides myself. That I know of ofcourse. Can't watch the TV show you have to read the book.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
-Terry Pratchett, TY Arthur🙏🙃🤙⚡👏👏✌👩🚀🌍👀🌎🔥💥🎧
Open mind is like a fortress with it's gates unbarred and unguarded
Very interesting and worthwhile video.
I wish he was still here to see the Falcon Heavy launch. He would have loved it :)
Dinuka Jay Vlogs i think he saw more in his lifetime then now. Back then space age was peaking. It’s stagnated now.
Cgi
Pretty sure Clarke would be very impressed with the direction and progress of spacex. Both he and Musk don't think in the mundane.
Only musk is autistic as in scoring high in the spectrum up to diagnosis asperger. Yet he 'believes' to save the world by owning a social media platform.
It doesnt do justice to both men comparing them in any way i think.
Let musk write a book first...
Oh yes, the greatest piece of music in the world.
How lucky are we available of watching all this amazing 🤩🌟 documentaries about one of the most prominent figures on the Science 🔭 Fiction history and also a great Physician and Inventor🤓👌
23:32 By the way humans have come a long way since the creation of the microprocessor, now my smartphone is at least a million times more powerful and does billion time more calculations that those early computers used 🔙 in 1967, and I even have a freaking AI on my phone 🤳 📱... What a time to be alive haha!!!
It is a fantastical leap to go from "calculating machines" to "thinking machines". Today's technology is *no closer* to that than Babbage was.
I have read and enjoyed his work since I was 15 years old and that is more than a few decades
Excellent video.
Great early shows always from him!
It's funny how the kid is just napping on the floor near the desk.
2001 a nonce's Odyssey
Blown out o-ring
I would consider as an eighth wonder , the mind of ARTHUR C. CLARKE
a truly great British man
Thank you for this video
I don't know if anyone is interested, but the name of the french mathematician "Mandelbrot" is german for "almond bread".
It is interesting!
No I'm not. Margaret Thatcher s name means straw roofer.....exciting, huh?
@@paulcunnane4 no
@@paulcunnane4 EVERYONE'S surname is some variation of "son of", "man from", a physical characteristic, or an occupation. It is just an outgrowth of population expanding beyond the available primary names. The first "Almond Bread" must have been a great baker of a local favorite bread ! ! Or maybe, just someone who always ordered the same thing in the cafe !
This guy did the pbs special on the mendelbrat set and fractal geometry. Which. Apparently had to do with floating point technology
Fantastic a genuine one off genius
Amazing how he predicted our future
what a great visionary he was
a fraud, like all the other Satanist puppets.
@@evolutionCEO Yes as the Nazi’s . I Llike his imagination, And the way hè tells a story. Walt Disney was also involved for the moonevent . I dont believe they went there. Everything is a lie.. There is no spoon😉
@@illfightforfreedom2954
not everything is a lie. it's time to loose the notion of belief.
to accept something as if true with no empirical evidence, is mental illness.
We can accept that something has possibility and probability, without it having to be true. Then when we find out it's not true, we can amend our knowledge banks without crying and butt hurt.
When i ate my chocolate and walnut ice cream, there was definitely a spoon, and if anyone says otherwise, they must bring forth their empirical argument that demonstrates how spoon = no spoon. while i smack them on the third eye with it and they whinge about the pain and growing lump that the un-spoon caused. ;D
We are subject to the indoctrination of foundationless thinking.
Occums razor will be the ticket to enlightenment, my friend. and be sure you have much importance in this place we find ourselves.
@@evolutionCEO you really give me something to think over and read (Occum’s Razor). And i really could use some chocolate ice Cream right now 😋.. haha😘
@@illfightforfreedom2954 When you come to realize that all of science has become polluted with unsubstantiated beliefs, it's time to set a new datum. a new base line for understanding. a new, proper foundation to build your tower of knowledge on.
I will give you this and you must verify it for yourself. to not verify it is to live in belief. Water at rest is flat and level. this one truth will prove ultimately valuable as you learn all of the implications.
Even the great Carl Sagan wrote as a forward in one of Arthur C. Clarks books.. when Voyager gets to Jupiter I am expecting to see black obelisks coming around the other side.
Sagan wasn't that great. For all his philosophies and musings, he always maintained a certain godlessness. I have yet to see an individual such as yourself that has actually ever received and been able to explain any kind of insight from anything Sagan ever said. You deify the wrong thing.
I’m not saying Sagan was great. But Arthur C Clarke did have a forward written by him, I think it may have been Fountains of Paradise. Have you ever read Arthur C Clarke? I don’t think so.
Great writer, great thinker.
The great teacher of my childhood.
I am watching this video May 26, 2021 9:42 PM Manila time, some 2 hours past peak totality (damn age-related forgetfulness) of the "scheduled" lunar eclipse.
There’s always another one.
I like to think that pulsars are cosmic lighthouses for a very advanced civilization.
great docu!
One of the truly great conceptualists.
I don't care two hoots about the controversies surrounding him. Sometimes you have to take a human being as a whole package and say "Overall, was he good for humanity and progress? Did he contribute to our advancement?" - He most certainly did.. and, IMO, any of the earthly issues that some have accused him of are, in the cosmological scheme of things, infinitesimally small. (As ALL things are, when compared to the advancement of life and progress of civilizations).
The world was better off for Arthur C. Clarke's existence, than had he not been around.
Still not comfortable with this guy. I know he is brilliant and has pushed human limits though it can't shake the feeling he is a mind control pawn. Orwell, Aldous Huxley, HG Wells and others....just not sure if they were 'ahead of their time' and prescient or they were in on a larger plan and using predictive programming on us to soften us up for the changes planned for the future.
Definitely!
I wish I'd gotten to meet this great thinker and amazing writer. I love his book, " Time enough for Love"
Richard; Uh, "Time Enough For Love" was written by Robert A. Heinlein, not Arthur C. Clark. That being said, I would have loved to meet them both! Heinlein and Clarke did meet in Sri Lanka in 1953 or 1954 when he and his wife Virginia took an around the world trip. Heinlein wrote about the experience in his posthumously published book "Tramp Royale". Evidently Clarke showed the Heinleins quite a good time.
A prominentTibetan Buddhist teacher said once, something to the effect that anything one could imagine exists somewhere in the universe.
By that logic, there is no science fantasy.
That's why maybe the bumper sticker: "Buddhism..........................eventually" I love this video and I am a huge fan of Master Clarke. BTW...I predicted what's happening now in a piece I wrote in 2011, titled: "The Purge Of Evil".