On arrival at Jupiter in their giant nuclear-powered spacecraft, the astronauts discover a star gate cut into one of the planet’s moons- apparently a wormhole-like shortcut to another part of the galaxy.” “A giant spacecraft, Discovery, is sent to investigate. “When hit by sunlight for the first time in millions of years, it fires a powerful radio pulse in the direction of Jupiter-evidently a signal, warning its makers that a species capable of space travel has arisen on Earth,” Benson writes. They excavate and soon find the source - a crystal artifact seemingly buried intentionally by ancient space aliens who visited the solar system eons earlier. As Clarke notes in his story, “The Sentinel,” future Earth astronauts surveying the lunar surface stumble upon a magnetic anomaly at Tycho Crater. The script and subsequent novel had its origins in Clarke’s contribution to a 1948 BBC short story competition. Here are five little-known nuggets from the making of the film. Benson writes "2001: A Space Odyssey" encompassed four million years of human evolution, from pre-human Australopithecine man-apes struggling to survive in southern Africa, through to twenty-first-century space-faring Homo sapiens, then on to the death and rebirth of their Odysseus astronaut, Dave Bowman, as an eerily posthuman “star child.”
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