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Subject: Re: Saturn not pretty enuf for Kubrik
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 19:05:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 19:05:12 1984
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The irony of 2001, a generally beautiful film, is that its depictions of
Juapiter and its moons pale to dullness next to the real thing, as beamed
back by the Voyagers and other probes.  Swirls and eddies on Jupiter,
furrows on ?, ice craks all over Europa, Io's hell -- yessir, truth can
really beat hell out of fiction.  If anyone had dreamed up something like
that for Kubrik, he might have refused it, saying "that's too fantastic...
there's enuf LDS trip stuff at the end.  People would laugh at those planets."

Well, I just read 2010, and the special effects to do it anything like justice
had BETTER BE GOOD!  Hope they rip off all they need from NASA.
No more plaster Jupiters...mike k