Arthur C. Clarke Does Not Believe In The Bermuda Triangle | The Dick Cavett Show
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- English science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke discusses his plans to watch the final Apollo flight to the Moon, Apollo 17, rumours about the Bermuda Triangle and the recent discovery of space pulsars, first believed to be signals from other intelligent lifeforms in space.
Date aired - July 12, 1972 - Arthur C. Clarke and Cassie Mackin
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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What's your favourite Arthur C. Clarke novel?
I'll go with Clarke's novella "A Meeting With Medusa", about an expedition to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter.
Against the Fall Of Night. It has such an incredible high concept. Who knows what life will be like, not thousands or millions, but billions of years in the future?
Fountains Of Paradise, is my favorite, but Childhood’s End, is a real mind-blower, if you’re looking for one :). & my very favorite, is his The View From Serendip, an autobiographical account of his moving to Sri Lanka / Ceylon💜
Rendezvous With Rama.. followed with 2010..!
The Fountains of Paradise. King Kalidasa and Vannevar Morgan. Love that story. But I love his entire output, as well.
Imagine a time when this level of intellectual debate was considered mainstream entertainment and put out on primetime
I also had this thought, there's an expectation the audience is educated well enough to follow this
"Anyone will be able to fly into space in ten years time." - 1972
:(
The best spent minutes any person could experience are those when Dick Cavett and Arthur C. Clarke are conversing. They enlighten and entertain, a compliment each other's styles perfectly.
Dick Cavett, the best ever. Always turns an interview into a brilliant conversation. No one comes near.
In an age that so thoroughly glorifies ignorance, we desperately need more communicators of science such as Clarke and Sagan.
Absolutely spot on - they are very sorely missed :(
If you think Clarke and Sagan are special, think again. Arthur C Clarke was part con man. He didn’t understand a lot of what he said himself. Sagan was compelling, but just a man.
@@electriceyeslide5959 If you think your opinion has special value, think again.
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Your comment is so stupid, I won’t entertain it.
What an incredible host you are Dick, thank you for sharing your curiosities with us. ❤️
An amazing man and a wonderful interview but can’t help but feel sad at his hopeful enthusiasm for the immediate future of space travel. He would love our space telescopes and Mars probes but I think he would be disappointed overall in our slow rate of progress.
Graham Johnson claims that although the NOTW prided itself on outing pederasts, editors made an exception for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch.
He only died in 2008.
We're all disappointed in our lack of progress. We went to the moon too early and for the wrong reasons. As soon as we discovered what resources were there , we dismantled the Saturn5 infrastructure and locked ourselves up back on Earth. Then we built the shuttle system designed to bring down satellites for repair , when by he time they needed repair they were obsolete anyway. We pay to send the same shuttle mass up over and over again leaving nothing in orbit. If, instead of shuttles, we had sent up habitat modules, Nasa would be selling tickets for orbital adventures instead of private industry run by kooks who think Mars is the next target. If you want a space program to pay for itself, Ceres is the target. Mars is Death Valley, Ceres is the Comstock Lode.
I would have loved to be on that cruise.
On that cruise pederasts, made for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest interest in children - boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West."
@@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire On second thoughts, I would have avoided the cruise to avoid being near to Norman Mailer who did assault and stab his wife, nearly killing her. After a thorough investigation there were never any charges nor any case filed against Clarke and no one ever came forward to say he abused them. You would think that since Clarke has been dead for over 12 years that someone, anyone, anywhere would have come out of the woodwork by now.
Man who inspired Interstellar.
Graham Johnson claims that although the NOTW prided itself on outing pederasts, editors made an exception for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch.
Not a compliment in my opinion. clarke created '2001' the novel which he deserves props for inspiring the classic film. 'Interstellar' was a weak retread of Sagan's 'Contact' film with Jodie Foster.
Don't get me wrong I liked the movie but he's done quite a lot more than that.
Can you please upload interview clips of the late, great Robert Shaw. He was such an interesting and engaging guest appearing on the show at least 5 times.
e.g. Woody Allen/Robert Shaw/Beverly Sills/Jacqueline Wexler (29 Dec. 1969)
Thanks in advance.
He was wrong about people flying into space in the time frame he used.
Thoughts travel faster than the speed of light.
Space moves faster than light. During the first split-second of the Universe's existence the expansion of the Universe occurred at a rate that was effectively far faster than the speed of light.
Apart from his intelligence I'm digging his humour .
At this point, 4:39 Clarke get's excited and starts sounding Irish accented.
Einstein is so often misunderstood because he was always very careful to state that his 'laws' were subject to the observer and their frame of reference.
Which then means most science is questionable.
@@ellie-tk4jy In the context of Einstein’s ‘relativity’, ‘subject to the observer’ does not mean ‘subject to the observer’s opinion of what the laws of physics should be’. You will understand that if you look into why his theories are labeled Special RELATIVITY and General RELATIVITY. If you can’t get your head around the fact that the ‘speed of light’ is the same for all observers, regardless of their speeds relative to each other, don’t worry about it, you’re in good company.
Genius
But did Cavett go and do the show from the cruise ship in the end?
How correct he was. I'm taking a trip to space today in fact.
Why not just upload the entire show?
At 5:28 on the time bar Arthur mentions plans to go see the big radio telescope in Arecibo Puerto Rico. If he were alive today he would be sad to see that they allowed it to dilapidate and collapse.
Did Dick Cavett do the Apollo launch show?
That would be an ecumenical matter.
In hindsight it is sad that Apollo 17 was the end of the US missions to the Moon. The hopes and dreams expressed by Dr Clark about future space travel within a decade were the optimism of the day. Congress dashed those hopes of mankind when NASA had its budgets slashed for thirty years ending the aspirations of an entire generation of people.
On that cruise pederasts, made for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest interest in children - boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West."
@@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire That's a disappointing thing to know, jeeze!
The dish in Arecibo went ka-boom and ka-put.
Best cartoon Gary...God at His computer.
Holy God!!!
A bit of a wasted interview. Would have liked to get Arthur's perspective on the limitations of science, Kubrick's vision of their film and what ideas (he had then) for more stories. The 70s were obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle FFS
They've never mentioned what type of Triangle. Isosceles perhaps.?It's the only one I remember.
Leonard Nimoy In Search Of the Bermuda Triangle and the Loch Ness Monster.
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
If this were on Late Night TV today they'd just play beer-pong & make Donald Trump jokes.
So Sad
Chat shows in the past sound similar to todays podcast
Clarke was a few decades short of his space travel predictions.
Yes, this was 1972 and Arthur C. Clark was proven right again. We all would be able to fly in space in just a few years and stay in hotels on the moon. But those who have stayed in those space hotels orbiting the earth, on the moon, and even now on Mars, say it looses it thrill after a few times being that those places are urber expensive, and only one mistake away from a life threatening disaster.
Is this satire or are you from a different timeline?
@@EJK2099 Satire. Clark and others who were cast in the role of futurists were headed, in their imagination, to those space hotels before the end of the century.
Did Dick take Arthur up on the invitation, and go watch the final Apollo launch with him?
On that cruise pederasts, made for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest interest in children - boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West."
@@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire you've posted this comment alot of times now you sad sad bastard!
Found this on the cruise: czcams.com/video/JTrzxIh8jX8/video.html
"if he obeys his own laws" - interesting argument :-) (I believe Clarke)
Gravity is faster than light
Lead into gold is faster than light... and harder.
Quite the accent, sounds part Irish, part American! XD
But ‘gahhhhd,’ isn’t a ‘material-being,’ so ‘The Absolute Light-Time-Space-Speed,’ is ‘on us’... lol 💜✨💜 i LOVE Arthur C. Clarke !!! :)
God is a metaphysical being that operates by a set of different laws, or so I''ve been told.
Clarke humoring Americans by talking about the mythical notion of a "God"
Yes, you are an intellectual…thank you for your presence on this planet
To have huminismzed God, is way erroneous to enlightenment.
God, by any name, is greater than ourselves and beyond measure. The speed of light, we've now come to understand, is too slow for our non-linear universe to traverse.
As well as we ourselves. The truth is unconditional love does liberate
us all, from any previously held restrictions, and far far more than we've yet to imagine. Remaning openhearted to the infinite possibilities of our shared creative source oneness, allows only the highest and best to blanket all outcome as well as results to every goodness. Yepper!
Surprised he thought technology would advance that fast. Now that China is involved, maybe the West will go back to the moon this decade. Always seemed logical to me for a base to be set up on the moon to advance any major voyage to Mars.
Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades channel at all.
One problem with Clarke's idea about God not being able to move faster than light is that, biblically, God is everywhere. Oxygen doesn't need to move faster than light to be in China. It's omnipresent. God is not a corporeal being bound by the limitations of the material world. He's beyond it.
The way he speaks in spurts reminds me of Elon Musk.
Yes, you're right! The timbre and pattern of their voices is very similar!
He’s quantised.
"God" would just create and use an Einstein-Rosen bridge (aka a wormhole...)
LOL
Arecibo :(
If interest in space had remained high in those days, Mr. Clarke's comments on ordinary people flying into space sooner than later might have come true. Frankly, the budgetary needs to fulfill such dreams might have bankrupted the earth.
The space race wouldn't do that, but wars might.
How one man can be so wrong about so much.
especially this one.
Long live democratic socialism and freedom
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like the other ones.
MAAAAAN was he way off base....So in 1982, anyone will be able to fly into space
#NanooNanooMFers 😒🤡🤦
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Bermuda triangle. Wasted way too much time on such BS.
Respect to clarke on 2001: A Space Oddessey and his ideas on the Universe. It's interesting he would not believe that areas like the Bermuda Triangle are actual vortex regions where unusual occurences happen. Too many pilots & ships have experienced strange events in that place to deny it exists. The bermuda Triangle is no more out there than UFO's and outer space intelligent life Clarke proposes.
Clarke is correct on that. The number of ships and planes that have been lost in that territory known as the Bermuda triangle, when adjusted for the relative number which travel through it, is no greater than the number of ships and planes lost in any other similarly sized part of the ocean.
The reason no remains are ever found is because airplanes become completely submerged very quickly after a crash or a ditch -- often less than two minutes. Same for sinking ships. And small debris left after a crash is very hard to spot from search planes, even flying low, because of sun angles and bobbing waves.
The whole legend of the "Bermuda Triangle" was pushed by unscrupulous pseudo-researchers who often falsified reports of UFO sightings and took data from old records out of context.
An excellent PBS Nova report in 1977 showed how all this was done.
The difference between the laws of nature and breaking the laws of nature is called a miracle. One may or may not believe in miracles (‘belief’ being necessary because a miracle is outside the laws of nature) but if someone brings up ‘god’, then ‘miracles’ are part of the discussion. The ‘laws of nature’ (in both causation and logic) stem from the nature of god but do not exhaust it. So there is no conflict between god and reason, i.e. logic, including math, and science which deals with the measurable universe and is numerative. Pure spirit would not be measurable and, being whole, is not numerative, and, being infinite, is not measurable.
I am, myself, an atheist but I am tired of weak arguments that prove nothing but make people who believe in god feel stupid. If it makes their lives that are full of experiences that don’t feel scientific or logical feel more comprehensible or comforting, I’m all for it. I’m not for the use of religion as a political ramrod or a mass market money machine.
God is an atheist.
Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest interest in children - boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West."
God Controls EVERYTHING on this Earth and in this Universe and ALL OF THE UNIVERSES OF SPACE AND TIME! He Created them ALL WITH A WORD!!!
How'd you know?
. . As it was, his aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he regarded it with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil. He looked upon it as the greatest enemy of morality: first, by setting up fictitious excellences-belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies, not connected with the good of human-kind-and causing these to be accepted as substitutes for genuine virtues: but above all, by radically vitiating the standard of morals; making it consist in doing the will of a being, on whom it lavishes indeed all the phrases of adulation, but whom in sober truth it depicts as eminently hateful. (John Stuart Mill about his father.)
Dog 🐕 is the supreme guardian of the everythingness around us.
Really? How come we have natural disasters then? If I was the creator of A PLANET I think I'd skip th hurricanes n earthquakes. Guess he was having n off day
I also enjoy fairy tales.
Genius