2001 A Space Odyssey

Then this must be the setting of man:

 

You’ll find it rather fascinating, if a bit long. It has its “wacky baccy” moments when you might be tempted to zone out, but the work that went 2001: A Space Odyssey is absolutely amazing.

The shots on the Discovery Spacecraft blew my mind. The attention to detail was astonishing and still holds up to scrutiny today.

I just watched it in the middle of the night last week, and I found it surprisingly enjoyable


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I see what you did there .

Incidentally, I recall reading a copy of Mad Magazine in my youth, which exquisitely sent up “2001: A Space Odyssey”, with the black monolith being discovered by the proto-humans, and promptly called....;

“A Dawn of Man Tape Deck”.....!!!

It sounded much funnier back then.
And yes, I DID roll on the floor laughing at that gag!


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Just watched this on the news in London UK right now.
Hope y’all okay and safe out there!


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We had to evacuate, but returned and things are still there.

Air quality is bad right now .

Just hoping the lightning that had a small percentage of happening does not.

That's what got this all started and if it passes, allows the firefighters to focus on containment of what is already occurring .

 

That's terrible. Glad you came out unscathed. Very scary.

 

When we are leaving we saw the smoke plumes rolling over the next ridge.

And it took us 45 minutes to get the 3/4 mile from our development to the freeway.

Thankfully no structures destroyed in the city I live in, but others aren't so lucky.

My thoughts are with them.

 

Wild fires, pandemic. two near hurricanes coming into the gulf at the same time, and now a 6.5' asteroid scheduled to hit earth the day before the big November election. DAYUM.

 

mrs b talked to her sister in sacramento yesterday. she didn't sound good, very hoarse

 

We are at a wine event in Napa this morning and the air quality here is much better than the other side of the mountains where we live:

So a nice break for a bit.

 

I've been on the Napa Wine train. Hope you're not driving yourself home. . . .

PS, Napa was on fire the last time we were there.

 

Nope, I have my wife as the DD.

One of her more redeeming qualities .

But the wine train is a nice experience.

 

is 'a space odyssey' available on any apps?

 

"2020: A Reception Odyssey:"
"My God... It's full of bars!"

 

Yup, it's called WAZE.

 

i thought that was gps?

 

Considering Kubrick's attention to all things gravitational, he really dropped the ball in the on-the-moon conference room scene. Maybe just took some license? It looks nothing like 1/6 gravity.

 

It was likely something they couldn't do on screen at the time.

 

Yeah I think they just said screw it, take license for the moon scenes. Too: the various zero-gravity cues that are shown, start to get tiresome.