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Mourners gathered at Arthur C Clarke's house to pay their last respects, man on left is Clarke's business partner and guardian Hector Ekanayake 2. Mourners gathering round back of car to bring out...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eColombo - 19 March 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mourners gathered at Arthur C Clarke's house to pay their last respects, man on left is Clarke's business partner and guardian Hector Ekanayake \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mourners gathering round back of car to bring out coffin of Clarke\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mourners in his house\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mourners bringing in coffin\u003cbr/\u003e5. Clarke in opened casket, mourners standing round\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Clarke lying in casket, mourners\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nalaka Gunawardana, spokesman for Arthur C. Clarke\u003cbr/\u003e\"He expressed three wishes, three last wishes of his life, which he wanted to see happen during his lifetime.  Unfortunately that didn't happen.  The three wishes were: he wanted some kind of sign, any sign, about life outside planet Earth, about extra-terrestrials.  Second wish was: he wanted to see clean energy sources developed as a response to climate change and global warming problems.  Thirdly, he wanted to see lasting peace in his adopted homeland of Sri Lanka.  Now unfortunately he didn't live long enough to see any of these last wishes come true, and I think the challenge for all his fans and all his admirers is to make these three wishes come true as early and as comprehensively as possible.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up books and CDs of Clarke's \"2001: A space Odyssey\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up black and white photo of Arthur C. Clarke as a  baby\u003cbr/\u003e10. Black and white 1920s family photo of Clarke's family: from top left: Fred, Arthur, mother Nora, Michael, Mary\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various black and white photos of Arthur C. Clarke as a young man\u003cbr/\u003e12. Portrait of Arthur C. Clarke at his home\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo - 16 December 2007\u003cbr/\u003e13. Clarke being wheeled into surprise party for his 90th birthday thrown by his friends at his Colombo home, pull out as people sing  \"Happy birthday\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tilt down of Clarke cutting birthday cake on his 90th birthday\u003cbr/\u003e15. Clarke and friends sitting round eating cake at party  \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Writer:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"I would like to see some evidence of extraterrestrial life. I've always believed that we are not alone in the universe, but we are still waiting for ET (fictional extraterrestrial being) to call us or give us some kind of sign.\" \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo - no exact date, 1997\u003cbr/\u003e17. Clarke reading letters at desk \u003cbr/\u003eScience fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died on Wednesday at the age of 90 and was to be buried in a private funeral over the weekend in his adopted home of Sri Lanka. \u003cbr/\u003eClarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome for years, had suffered breathing problems in recent days, aide Rohan De Silva said.\u003cbr/\u003eHis coffin was brought back to his home in Colombo on Thursday, and friends gathered to pay their last respects round his open casket before his burial.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking there, his spokesman Nalaka Gunawardana, talked about Clarke's last three wishes.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He expressed three wishes, three last wishes of his life, which he wanted to see happen during his lifetime, unfortunately that didn't happen.  The three wishes were: he wanted some kind of sign, any sign, about life outside planet Earth, about extra-terrestrials.  Second wish was: he wanted to see clean energy sources developed as a response to climate change and global warming problems.  Thirdly, he wanted to see lasting peace in his adopted homeland of Sri Lanka.  Now unfortunately he didn't live long enough to see any of these last wishes come true, and I think the challenge for all his fans and all his admirers is to make these three wishes come true as early and as comprehensively as possible,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eClarke had stipulated that he wanted a secular funeral.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Clarke, religion was \"a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species,\" and he left written\u003cbr/\u003einstructions that his funeral be completely secular, according to his aides.\u003cbr/\u003eThe visionary author won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future. \u003cbr/\u003eThe 1968 story \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" - written simultaneously as a novel and screenplay with director Stanley\u003cbr/\u003eKubrick - was a frightening prophecy of artificial intelligence run amok.\u003cbr/\u003eOne year after it made Clarke a household name in fiction, the scientist entered the homes of millions of Americans alongside Walter Cronkite anchoring television coverage of the Apollo mission to the moon.\u003cbr/\u003eClarke also was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke\u003cbr/\u003eorbits.\u003cbr/\u003eHis nonfiction volumes on space travel and his explorations of the Great Barrier Reef and Indian Ocean earned him respect in the world of science, and in 1976 he became an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics\u003cbr/\u003eand Astronautics.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it was his writing that shot him to his greatest fame and that gave him the greatest fulfillment.\u003cbr/\u003eFrom 1950, he began a prolific output of both fiction and nonfiction, sometimes publishing three books in a year.\u003cbr/\u003eClarke, a British citizen, won a host of science fiction awards and was awarded the CBE in 1989. Clarke was officially given a knighthood in 1998, but he delayed accepting it for two years after a London tabloid accused him\u003cbr/\u003eof being a child molester. The allegation was never proved.\u003cbr/\u003eBorn in Minehead, western England, on December 16, 1917, the son of a farmer, Arthur Charles Clark became addicted to science fiction after buying his first copies of the pulp magazine \"Amazing Stories\" at Woolworth's. \u003cbr/\u003eHe read English writers H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon and began writing for his school magazine in his teens.\u003cbr/\u003eClarke went to work as a clerk in Her Majesty's Exchequer and Audit Department in London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society and wrote his first short stories and scientific articles on space travel.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was not until after World War II that Clarke received a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics from King's College in London. \u003cbr/\u003eServing in the wartime Royal Air Force, he wrote a 1945 memo about the possibility of using satellites to revolutionise communications. 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