Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Read the book. It's perfectly clear what's going on.
Cliffs: ...
The second and third books are good, but stray from the first one slightly. In the last book we learn that the monolith on the moon was a sort of test for the humans. However, the humans uncovered it too late in their progress of development. The alien race was disappointed by the humans not evolving and developing technology fast enough, so they planned on wiping out the planet. Mankind learns of this, bands together and kills the aliens with a computer virus (I think...it's been a while) with the help from the astronaut/pure energy being from 2001.
I think that's as short and thorough as you can get.![]()
Originally posted by: zzuupp
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Read the book. It's perfectly clear what's going on.
Cliffs: ...
The second and third books are good, but stray from the first one slightly. In the last book we learn that the monolith on the moon was a sort of test for the humans. However, the humans uncovered it too late in their progress of development. The alien race was disappointed by the humans not evolving and developing technology fast enough, so they planned on wiping out the planet. Mankind learns of this, bands together and kills the aliens with a computer virus (I think...it's been a while) with the help from the astronaut/pure energy being from 2001.
I think that's as short and thorough as you can get.![]()
I agree. The other sub-plot would be did the Monolith makers also advance AI through HAL. Or was it just the paradox in his programming.
<--- maybe vb will have a daisy icon![]()
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