Oh, right - the one on the moon had to be dug up.  But the other one - it was pointing somehow to the huge monolith that was really a worm hole or something...

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?
  >
  >
  >
  >   ----- 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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