Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-cougar!trandolph From: trandolph@cougar.DEC Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: 2010 bugs... Message-ID: <179@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:27:40 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.179 Posted: Fri Jan 11 08:27:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:00:31 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 27 >>Did anyone notice this one? In the "Mission Report" at the >beginning >of the film, the monolith is said to have been dug up in >1999 in the >Sea of Tranquillity, and is known as the "Tycho >monolith". > If so, someone needs a lunar map. Without looking it up, I can only say that Tycho is well south and west of the Sea or Tranquillity (is it Mare Cognitum? someone get a map!) >I seem to remember that the Monolith was originally found at Clavius and >called something like the Clavius Anomaly. Please correct me if I'm >wrong. (This is the movie 2001 that I'm refering to). > > Brett Slocum > > Slocum @ HI-MULTICS (arpa-net) > ihnp4!umn-cs!hi-csc!slocum (uucp) Well, in the novel 2001, the monolith was found in the crater Tycho, because of it's abnormal magnetic field. Hence, it was called Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One (TMA-1)... In fact, I believe the monolith found by Dave Bowman was christened TMA-2... T.F.Randolph UUCP: ...{allegra,amd,decvax,ihnp4,nsc,ucbvax}! decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-cougar!trandolph USnail: DEC, Mail stop LMO2/E01, 111 Locke Drive, Marlboro, MA 01752