Jupiter mission...(2018, not 2001...)

[jayne lee wilson]

JUST dive into THIS....wow....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-46561149/dive-over-jupiter-s-cloud-tops-with-nasa-s-juno-craft

Utterly awestruck....Good for anyone's local, mundane, human perspectives...(however pressing...)...

[ardcarp]

WOW, indeed! Thanks for the link Jayne.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Thanks for that Jayne. Even at this resolution, still difficult to believe you can't stand on it.
[I'm well aware this would not be a good idea even if it was solid!]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm a great fan of Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series: 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001. Some of his predictions haven't yet happened. Siri is no match for Hal, but modern computers are faster at finding information from the web than Clarke ever imagined.

I never thought much of the 1968 film, though the sequel (2010) was better constructed. Sadly, the later books were never filmed, though 3001 was planned.

[ardcarp]

For those of us interested in our planetary neighbours, a closer one, Venus, is under discussion next Thursday on R4's In Our Time. Not much of a Christmas break for Mr Bragg.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001rm1

Pulling Nellie's Udder Squirts Jersey Milk Everywhere. Very Messy

[vinteuil]

Pulling Nellie's Udder Squirts Jersey Milk Everywhere. Very Messy

... hasn't Pluto since been down-graded, and no longer classed as a 'proper' planet?


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[ardcarp]

Yes, but since there's so much disagreement about what is and isn't a planet, why not keep Pluto? Mind you, my mnemonic would work, perhaps even more graphically, without it.

[jayne lee wilson]

I'm a great fan of Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series: 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001. Some of his predictions haven't yet happened. Siri is no match for Hal, but modern computers are faster at finding information from the web than Clarke ever imagined.

I never thought much of the 1968 film, though the sequel (2010) was better constructed. Sadly, the later books were never filmed, though 3001 was planned.

The Kubrick 2001 film is a classic because, despite some problems with realisation of the narrative logic, so many of its scenes have a compelling, haunting atmosphere about them - and effect at once visual and sonic, created by the remarkable choices of the soundtrack and direction which, if you take a step back and consider it, is skilfully creative to the point of genius. (That jump cut from the bone-tool in Dawn of Man to the spacecraft and Blue Danube...!)....
The Ligeti Lux Aeterna as the moonbus glides across the lunar terrain; the Requiem voices... then the violence of the radio-shriek the monolith emits in its crater...

That adagio from Gayaneh as the astronaut jogs around Discovery's centrifuge seems to express the passage of time, a meditative serenity, and yet a sense of eery fragility. Those early interviews with Earth TV, designed to demonstrate the easy, friendly cooperation of human/computer; and Hal9000's brilliantly nuanced voice itself, is just a little too friendly - with a suppressed sense of threat. But it's a hard quality to describe, arrived at as much through the absence of sound and activity as its opposite...

The sequel was just another scifi film I'm afraid; not without merit, but lacking much mystery or suggestive power .....without the hypnotically compelling quality of the original: a 20thCentury icon, timeless yet era-defining, a film that is very hard to stop watching, whichever scene you start from.