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In Reply to: The mystery is part of the point. posted by Analog Scott on August 11, 2005 at 23:26:25:
The monolith was a teaching tool.
The teaching aid of an intelligent designer perhaps?
Primary School - It taught the trogs to use tools and, if you like, accelerated their evolutionary development.
High School - A magnetic field anomaly is detected on the surface of the moon
High School Graduation - The monolith is found and excavated on the moon. When exposed to light, it blasts off and is tracked so somewhere near Saturn.
University - The monolith inspires the first interplanetary journey.
University Graduation - The giant monolith is found and the weirdness begins :~)Cheers,
John K
Follow Ups:
Or perhaps it is a bio lab and our development is it's project. Or maybe it is comunication device and mere comunication with these aliens is so profoundly affecting that it changes the course of mankind. Or maybe they are just there for other reasons and our chance encounters with them have such an effect. Or maybe something else. That is the beauty of it. It leaves us with questions or at least our own interpretations. It is weird which is what such a real life encounter could only be as opposed to the conventional straight forward understandable (because they are fully explained) alien encounters one finds in most scifi. And when you think about it, before 2001 just about all alien encounters were with aliens invading us in flying saucers. This movie was soooo far ahead of it's time that we are still catching up.
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