Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum.
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In 1965 Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke discussed a film project, then called Journey Beyond the Stars. “Science-fiction films have always meant monsters or sex, so we have tried to find another term,” said Clarke. “The best we’ve been able to come up with is a space odyssey,” added Kubrick. “The far-flung islands Homer’s wonderful characters visited were no less remote to them than the planets our spacemen will soon be landing on are to us.”
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913





