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“All these worlds are yours - except Europa. Attempt no landing there.” You have been warned guys… ;)

by steve1977 3y ago

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tunnuz 3y ago
Came for this, was not disappointed.
CuteDinosaur 3y ago
What is this quote from?
- ikesau 3y ago
  2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey
  - CuteDinosaur 3y ago
    Seems pretty. Will read soon.
    - twoodfin 3y ago
      The film version is flawed but still well-worth anyone’s time who got this deep in the thread & enjoys hard, near-future sci-fi. My theory is that 2010: The Year We Make Contact is a lot like Blade Runner, pre- the various Ridley Scott re-cuts. Drop the voiceover, tweak the ending to be less literal / sentimental, fix some of the FX matting, and you’d be left with one of the best serious SF films since 2001.
      - ck2 3y ago
        Surprised they haven't made 2061 with modern FX and budget so they can market it as a trilogy. Must be too busy rebooting batman over and over for the 100th time I guess.
      - pndy 3y ago
        I enjoy both; 2010 is more an action piece wrapped with this period-specific visuals, coming also with burden of the real-world Cold War. While 2001 is a cinematic masterpiece that ended times of this naive pulp-scifi with its metal pointy rockets and damsel in distress tropes. The only thing I really really don't like the paint-psychodelic visual that Kubric used instead of Clarke's "Grand Central Station of the galaxy". I really wish the remaining books would be turn into movies and so the Clarke-Baxter' A Time Odyssey series.
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sph 3y ago
Honestly, the only thing I wish to see before I die is a submarine mission to Europa or Ganymede. It would be even more mind blowing and an amazing achievement for humanity, and the search for extraterrestrial life. That, and the dragonfly-helicopter-thing on Titan. Have you ever seen the Sun set on a methane lake? It's time for a rewatch of Europa Report (2013).
- dotnet00 3y ago
  It's such a shame that the lander component of Europa Clipper got cancelled.
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    It did?! :(. Shame. We should be scrambling to land probes there yesterday.
    - dotnet00 3y ago
      Yep, yet another casualty of Congress's obsession with wasting money on SLS. Spending another $10B on an SLS upgrade that is still too rough of a ride for any payload is fine, but spending $1B on a lander is too much. With Europa Clipper there was also the incident that Congress tried to write into law that it had to launch on SLS. The Clipper team were leaning towards using Falcon Heavy ($90M). In the end Congress only relented because the Clipper team said they'd need another $1B in funding (in addition to the $2B+ for an SLS launch itself) to make the delicate instruments on Clipper capable of withstanding the extremely rough ride that SLS offers. So now Europa Clipper will be a Jupiter orbiter that does several flybys of Europa.
- dylan604 3y ago
  I'm ready for beach front property when Jupiter finally becomes the Sun's companion star to warm up Europa
- mikeInAlaska 3y ago
  A Europa submarine mission is a good bucket list, but don't sell us too short. * Humans on Mars * Room temperature Superconductors and their effects on humanity. * Sustained Fusion Power for the masses. * General Artificial Intelligence * Human brain-computer interface. * Full reversal of climate change. * Extended human lifespan. * Curing all forms of cancer. * Universal translator for all human languages. * Discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life. * Understanding dark energy and dark matter. * A true virtual reality, indistinguishable from reality. * 100% renewable energy global infrastructure. * Establishing a lunar base. * Sentient AI companions. * Discovering the origin of life. If you elect me, I will make all these come true!
spazx 3y ago
Use them together. Use them in peace.
dwaites 3y ago
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“All these worlds are yours - except Europa. Attempt no landing there.” You have been warned guys… ;)

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tunnuz 3y ago

Came for this, was not disappointed.

CuteDinosaur 3y ago

What is this quote from?

ikesau 3y ago
2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey
- CuteDinosaur 3y ago
  Seems pretty. Will read soon.
  - twoodfin 3y ago
    The film version is flawed but still well-worth anyone’s time who got this deep in the thread & enjoys hard, near-future sci-fi. My theory is that 2010: The Year We Make Contact is a lot like Blade Runner, pre- the various Ridley Scott re-cuts. Drop the voiceover, tweak the ending to be less literal / sentimental, fix some of the FX matting, and you’d be left with one of the best serious SF films since 2001.
    - ck2 3y ago
      Surprised they haven't made 2061 with modern FX and budget so they can market it as a trilogy. Must be too busy rebooting batman over and over for the 100th time I guess.
    - pndy 3y ago
      I enjoy both; 2010 is more an action piece wrapped with this period-specific visuals, coming also with burden of the real-world Cold War. While 2001 is a cinematic masterpiece that ended times of this naive pulp-scifi with its metal pointy rockets and damsel in distress tropes. The only thing I really really don't like the paint-psychodelic visual that Kubric used instead of Clarke's "Grand Central Station of the galaxy". I really wish the remaining books would be turn into movies and so the Clarke-Baxter' A Time Odyssey series.
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sph 3y ago

Honestly, the only thing I wish to see before I die is a submarine mission to Europa or Ganymede. It would be even more mind blowing and an amazing achievement for humanity, and the search for extraterrestrial life. That, and the dragonfly-helicopter-thing on Titan. Have you ever seen the Sun set on a methane lake? It's time for a rewatch of Europa Report (2013).

dotnet00 3y ago
It's such a shame that the lander component of Europa Clipper got cancelled.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  It did?! :(. Shame. We should be scrambling to land probes there yesterday.
  - dotnet00 3y ago
    Yep, yet another casualty of Congress's obsession with wasting money on SLS. Spending another $10B on an SLS upgrade that is still too rough of a ride for any payload is fine, but spending $1B on a lander is too much. With Europa Clipper there was also the incident that Congress tried to write into law that it had to launch on SLS. The Clipper team were leaning towards using Falcon Heavy ($90M). In the end Congress only relented because the Clipper team said they'd need another $1B in funding (in addition to the $2B+ for an SLS launch itself) to make the delicate instruments on Clipper capable of withstanding the extremely rough ride that SLS offers. So now Europa Clipper will be a Jupiter orbiter that does several flybys of Europa.
dylan604 3y ago
I'm ready for beach front property when Jupiter finally becomes the Sun's companion star to warm up Europa
mikeInAlaska 3y ago
A Europa submarine mission is a good bucket list, but don't sell us too short. * Humans on Mars * Room temperature Superconductors and their effects on humanity. * Sustained Fusion Power for the masses. * General Artificial Intelligence * Human brain-computer interface. * Full reversal of climate change. * Extended human lifespan. * Curing all forms of cancer. * Universal translator for all human languages. * Discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life. * Understanding dark energy and dark matter. * A true virtual reality, indistinguishable from reality. * 100% renewable energy global infrastructure. * Establishing a lunar base. * Sentient AI companions. * Discovering the origin of life. If you elect me, I will make all these come true!

spazx 3y ago

Use them together. Use them in peace.

dwaites 3y ago

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