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2001 -- A Space Odyssey.
In this ground breaking and universally acclaimed film, based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," Clarke and Kubrick explore the impact on humanity of the first proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life -- in the form of an artifact found in the crater Tycho on the Moon. The parallels between Clarke's "fictional" story and the real discovery of artifacts at Cydonia are stunning. At the time Monuments was written, Enterprise principal investigator Richard C. Hoagland had assumed that these connections were merely coincidental, and that his long-time friend was merely "exceptionally prescient." Now of course, we're a bit less naive. Sadly, Kubrick and Clarke's "take" on the prospect of ETs in the Solar System is straight out of "Brookings." In the film, not only is this critical information deliberately withheld from the public (and the rest of the "space agency!"), but that agency is willing to go to any lengths, including sacrificing the crew of the mission sent to investigate, to keep "The Secret." Ultimately, the story takes the crew of the Discovery to Jupiter, and the one surviving member of the mission embarks to investigate another artifact in orbit around Jupiter. The astronaut is ultimately swept away in a sort of "Hyperdimensional Stargate."
This film is certainly in keeping with the general theme of Kubrick's work. From "Paths of Glory" to "Sparticus" to "Full Metal Jacket" to "Eyes Wide Shut," Kubrick's work has had one universal axiom -- power structures are inherently abusive of the power they possess. In the case of "2001" this plays itself out in the central thesis which seems uncomfortably close to our own Cydonia experience -- "if they find, they will hide it."
But it was Clarke who defined the mechanism by which the "Hyperdimensional" transition would be made, through the central symbol of the film, The Monolith. As we have shown previously, Clarke's original idea for the Monolith is that it would be a massive black tetrahedron. However, he eventually decided that such a form would be "too obvious" and instead settled on the rectangular shape. Yet, he was still careful to encode the basic concepts of the tetrahedron in the proportions of the Monolith -- 1 x 4 x 9, the squares of 1,2,3, the ratios of inscribed/circumscribed tetrahedra to their respective spheres (planets).
So the Monolith itself (by Clarke's own admission) is nothing more than a not so thinly disguised "Cydonian" tetrahedron!