knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (05/08/84)
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