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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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