Enjoying the JourneySpotlight Post: Americans see red over new Space Race
March 22nd 2009 15:00
Sgt-Pembry wrote on his The Invisible Sky . . .
Americans see red over new Space Race
The Chinese are coming … just like legendary author Arthur C. Clarke predicted 27 years ago.
In his 1982 book ‘2010: Odyssey Two’ - the follow-up to his mega hit novel, and movie by Stanley Kubrick, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ - Clarke envisioned China entering, and then leaping ahead of both the US and the then USSR, in a prolonged Space Race.
While the makers of the ‘2010′ film adaptation - released in 1984 - chose to leave them out of their version, the Chinese in fact played a pivotal role in Clarke’s earlier novel.
The story obviously takes place nine years after the Discovery’s disastrous mission to Jupiter to investigate a giant monolith that had parked itself near one the planet’s moons, the icy Europa. The on-board computer HAL went a little nuts and crew member Dave Bowman became a ‘Star Child’ after disappearing into the monolith.
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Americans see red over new Space Race
In his 1982 book ‘2010: Odyssey Two’ - the follow-up to his mega hit novel, and movie by Stanley Kubrick, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ - Clarke envisioned China entering, and then leaping ahead of both the US and the then USSR, in a prolonged Space Race.
While the makers of the ‘2010′ film adaptation - released in 1984 - chose to leave them out of their version, the Chinese in fact played a pivotal role in Clarke’s earlier novel.
The story obviously takes place nine years after the Discovery’s disastrous mission to Jupiter to investigate a giant monolith that had parked itself near one the planet’s moons, the icy Europa. The on-board computer HAL went a little nuts and crew member Dave Bowman became a ‘Star Child’ after disappearing into the monolith.
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