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Re: So it's finally 2002..
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Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:03:39 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2002, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:

> The last movie I watched for 2001 was a deliberate choice: 2001 A Space
> Odessey.  I remember my dad taking me to see that when it was at it's
> exclusive run at the Warner's in Hollywood (Cinerama screen, of course).  It
> was a future that seemed so far away at the time and now it's the past!  All
> in all, the technology Kubrick envisioned held up pretty well (homicidal
> computers aside).
> 
> Bruce

Not to nit-pick, Bruce, but I think you mean "...the technology A. C. Clarke
envisioned held up pretty well."  A whole lot of what Clarke wrote has held up
very well.

Jeff J



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  Re: So it's finally 2002..
 
(...) Pretty much once you go past earth, just about everything is an ice planet, so it's a case of been there, done that. :-) The last movie I watched for 2001 was a deliberate choice: 2001 A Space Odessey. I remember my dad taking me to see that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.year.2002)

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