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From an Arthur C. Clarke novel: > ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA. > ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. So yes. Clarke thought it was special also.
by __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
From an Arthur C. Clarke novel:
> ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA.
> ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
So yes. Clarke thought it was special also.
- XorNot 3y agoIt's also one of my favorite sequences in the 2010 movie of Space Odessey series (which IMO, works a lot better as an actual movie pacing wise). Just something about the tension gets captured really well there, without their being any sort of actual threat (since it's a robotic probe).
- andrewflnr 3y agoFunny that the Clipper probe is still only flying by, attempting no landing.
- staplung 3y agoWell, kinda, eventually. The book of 2001 points Discovery 1 at Iapetus, a moon of Saturn. Evidently, the special effects crew for the movie couldn't do a convincing job of faking Saturn because of the rings so they did Jupiter instead. Then when Clarke did the book for 2010 he retcon'd it to match the movie.
- pndy 3y agoI'm pretty sure that Clarke stated somewhere in the preface that each story in the Space Odyssey series doesn't necessary happens in the same universe and thus that's why there's a difference between places in books Nevertheless, Jupiter as the biggest planet within our star system being forced to collapse into a small sun feel extremely right