Wrong monolith. TMA II or II (I'll have to dig up my copy of the
novel) was in plain site on Iapetus.

larry

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:07:02 -0400, Howie Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can't see the monolith unless you dig it up, no?
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Larry C. Lyons
>   To: CF-Community
>   Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:51 AM
>   Subject: science kills another great SF idea
>
>   I don't suppose anyone here remembers, but in Arthur C. Clarke's novel
>   2001, the Discovery's mission was to go to the moon Iapetus, where the
>   crew's survivors encountered the TMA II monolith.
>
>   Unfortunately the Cassini spacecraft has shown no monoliths on that moon.
>
>   http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/07/16/saturn.cassini.ap/index.html
>
>   another myth bites the dust.
>
>   larry
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