I am from Hull (UK), and am the founder member of Team ACC - Arthur C Clarke Fans - join my group, please (I need help) -"I pointed out to you the stars and moon, but all you saw was the tip of my finger." -- Sukuma saying, Tanzania "When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." Clarke's First Law, from "Profiles of the Future" (1962) "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." Clarke's Second Law, from "Profiles of the Future" (1962) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Clarkes Third Law, from "Profiles of the Future" (1962) "For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert." A Clarke Law? "All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest." "The City and the Stars" (1956) "The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime." "Odyssey" p390 HAL: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) "It is better to know the truth than to dabble in delusions." Where? (1973)