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I recently read the screenplay to 2001. An interesting thing mentioned in the script, but not shown in the film, is that all of the images of beautiful space s
by Mizza 6y ago
I recently read the screenplay to 2001.
An interesting thing mentioned in the script, but not shown in the film, is that all of the images of beautiful space ships in the early sequence of the film are in fact space-based nuclear missile launchers, and that there are 27 nuclear nations with space weapons.
I sometimes imagine what an alien visitor would think about us if they came to our planet and saw that we had such destructive technology, pointed at _ourselves_.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoAny sources for this? Wikipedia seems to state there are no known operative orbital nuclear weapons systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon#Space-to-Earth_weapons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon#Space-to-Earth_...
- nick_kline 6y agoThey mean missiles on earth just as we have today, not space based ones.
- samcheng 6y agoThe poster is describing the future imagined by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in 1968, not reality. We ended up with a lot fewer nukes, and a lot less space. (Also fewer trippy alien wormholes.)
- octaveguin 6y agoThey might see their own past. It seems likely that all species that make it to space might have similar pressures because they have a similar environment. See convergent evolution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution That is, if they exist at all. Maybe we all converge to the great filter.