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07-12-2017, 12:41 PM | #161 (permalink) |
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07-12-2017, 09:59 PM | #163 (permalink) |
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You really should read the novel. The wormhole part is not just a feaky light show like in the movie. Bowman sees all kinds of stuff during his journey.
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I might do. I read some Clarke when I was younger though and found it very dry and boring. Can't remember what: Rendezvous with Rama, maybe? Not sure.
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07-13-2017, 03:57 PM | #166 (permalink) |
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Oh, one other point: it always seemed to me that the monolith was not showing the emerging humans how to use tools, but weapons, and that, as such, the aliens then sped up our evolution along lines of conflict and eventually tribal wars, murder and destruction, rather than a peaceful co-existence. Maybe I got that wrong? Is it possible, though, that the aliens knew that without conflict Man would never become ambitious or powerful enough to make it to the stars?
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