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From: dp@astrovax.UUCP (Debbie Padgett)
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Subject: Re: Arthur C. Clarke's 2010
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 20:06:45 EDT
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I also recall that Hyams was responsible for OUTLAND, the Connery vehicle
which concerned mining operations on Io (ha!). Not only was the film a
blatant copy of HIGH NOON and ALIEN (at least in its set design), it was also
one of the more scientifically ignorant science fiction films that I have
seen. For example, no one could forget the amazing exploding miners who seemed
to blow up the very instant they were exposed to vacuum and the ludicrous
idea of an underground mining operation on Io, which has so much volcanic
activity that it resurfaces itself on the order of every million years or so
(for those who don't recall, Io is the innermost large moon of Jupiter).
I find his selection as director for 2010 most amusing since he so thoroughly
botched scientific details covered competently in 2001 (humans in a vacuum
without spacesuits; see also Clarke's EARTHLIGHT) and vital to 2010 (screwing
up descriptions of the Jovian moons). Good luck, Arthur; you're going to
need it with this guy!