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Ya, and then they buried the other one on the moon because they knew that once man had the technology to find it they'd be ready to move on to the next step of advancement.

Note that I didn't read the book until about 5 years ago. I'd loved the movie since the 70s.

Interesting note. The aspect ratio of the monolith is exactly the same as the movie screens it was first shown on. During the film the monolith sings to the apes and then the astronauts. When they first showed the movie in theaters, at the beginning the screen would be black and they'd play music for a few minutes before the movie started, and then they did it again during the intermission.

Kubrick was replicating the monolith on it's side singing to the audience.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”