Re: geography nerds?

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:59:12 +0000, Robert Sneddon
<fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <ih35s35iarrbvili9mg1llp19pm59clv09@xxxxxxx>, mike weber
<fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx> writes

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

I somehow remembered the orbit as different; as i thought i remembered
it, it didn't matter if theyu were geostationary, sice the 120 degree
positioning meant that they could cover the whole world no matter
where exactly they were...

Mayhap i'm confusing Clarke's ideas with someone else's similar
concept

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.

I saw it somewhere else; didn't he do a "Playboy" story about being
approached by representatives of an un-named minor nation with plans
to use satellite relays for more-or-less nefarious purposes?
.

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