I read the book so long ago...saw the movie again last year...
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry C. Lyons
To: CF-Community
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: science kills another great SF idea
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.
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> Unfortunately the Cassini spacecraft has shown no monoliths on that moon.
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> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/07/16/saturn.cassini.ap/index.html
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> another myth bites the dust.
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> larry
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