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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by trixie_ on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:42AM (#25200087)
Wow this is getting a lot of PR. I've seen this article on the on so many news sites now. It's funny, but front page news? Seems of all the random things that go on, this was picked as special for some reason. Just interesting how some things you wouldn't expect rise to the top.
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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by DamnInteresting on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:18AM (#25206229)
It's a fun mystery that gives the mind something to chew on apart from pandemic, elections, murder hornets, etc.
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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by blonde_ocean on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:08PM (#25200411)
I mean, it’s pretty cool. There’s that fact. But my guess it’s probably being drive to top due to the parallels to 2001. I’d imagine there’s a large Kubrick fanbase on HN, if not just a 2001 fanbase.
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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by ac42 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:12PM (#25204127)
Clarke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by sdmike1 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:30PM (#25204655)
The book and the film where written and developed cooperatively so both really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ However, they are both based on clark's 1951 short story The Sentinel[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(short_story)

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Re:Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert by ac42 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:07AM (#25209338)
Indeed, and to my feeble defense:

> The book was credited to Clarke alone.

TIL :)

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