MostTriv #105 Science Fiction

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL"

Arthur C. Clarke once said, "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."

Robot Boy is back today... [He has a new battery]

Stanley Kubrick worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing effect for the floating pen in the shuttle sequence. After trying many different techniques, without success, Kubrick decided to simply use a pen that was taped to a sheet of glass and suspended in front of the camera. In fact, the shuttle attendant can be seen to "pull" the pen off the glass when she takes hold of it..

 

What do you know, Joe?

What was the name of the space ship 2001 A Space Odyssey?

A. Challenger


B. Discovery


C. Athena

D. Sirius

Last Post Answers: C. A penny-farthing was the logo of The Village in the cult 1960s television series The Prisoner, and was also featured in the show's closing titles. Patrick McGoohan has stated that the bike represented slowing down the wheels of progress

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