From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: Re: 2010 - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5043
Posted: Fri Jan 14 10:43:04 1983
Received: Mon Jan 17 03:10:05 1983

#R:watmath:-418500:sri-unix:13200004:000:294
sri-unix!mclure    Jan 13 09:34:00 1983

Jupiter was used in 2001 movie simply because at that time special
effects could not realistically duplicate Saturn's rings.  Nowadays, of
course, it's almost "trivial" compared to things like the trip through
the asteroid belt in The Empire Strikes Back (my favorite special
effect).

	Stuart