History WMG / TwothousandOneASpaceOdyssey

[[WMG: [[Film/StarWars Star Destroyers]] form the "wedges door" on the moon at the moonbase.]]

[[WMG: The Aliens are [[MagicTheGathering pre-mending planeswalkers]]]]

From ''Book/TheLostWorldsOf2001'': ''Apart from their unusual height - more than seven feet - the creatures that looked down upon the world of Pliocene were strikingly human (...) With a little plastic surgery, Clindar could have passed for a man. He was hairless...''

** More timeline modifications create the various [[WhatCouldHaveBeen alternative scenarios]] narrated in ''Literature/TheLostWorldsOf2001''.

[[WMG: ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' takes place at the same time as 2001.]]

My God - ''it's full of stars!''

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** More timeline modifications create the various [[WhatCouldHaveBeen alternative scenarios]] narrated in ''Book/TheLostWorldsOf2001''.

* This could be rephrased as: '''RidleyScott has read ''The Lost Worlds of 2001'''''. I'm pretty sure that the answer is a yes.

[[WMG: The aliens who created the Monoliths also sent AlbertEinstein.]]

From TheLostWorldsOf2001: ''Apart from their unusual height - more than seven feet - the creatures that looked down upon the world of Pliocene were strikingly human (...) With a little plastic surgery, Clindar could have passed for a man. He was hairless...''

* This could be rephrased as: '''RidleyScott has read TheLostWorldsOf2001'''. I'm pretty sure that the answer is a yes.

** More timeline modifications create the various [[WhatCouldHaveBeen alternative scenarios]] narrated in TheLostWorldsOf2001.

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My God - ''it's full of stars!''

When the apes come in contact with the monoliths they are developed enough to gain a jump in evolution, however when humans find the monolith on the moon it emits a high pitched shriek to drive away the people because they are not "ready", this occurrence did have an effect on HAL however because of the level of sophistication of its design. When Dave finds himself in the hotel room he his being deliberately aged until he is ready to be evolved.(into a space fetus apparently.)

** . Bowman, by checking the replaced AE-35 unit and seeing that it was functional, already knew that HAL was in error. HAL's control over Bowman was lost at that point, regardless of what Mission Control would have said.

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** Silence, mortal! The movie is about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter!

The human and AI minds might appear far from each other, but consider. [=AIs=] are created from our knowledge. The aliens, however, would be completely different in nature; the aliens in this film truly are alien.

[[WMG: The story is a hidden message about a method for ressurecting the dead on Jupiter]]

The last ''Space Odyssey'' novel ends with the monoliths being destroyed, but not before they sent a message to their controlling node, 450 light years away from Earth. This would appear to suggest Arthur C. Clarke's intention to write a fifth novel, where the Firstborn deal with an intelligence capable to destroy that technology. Except that he (apparently) didn't. He went on to write a trilogy he called ''Time Odyssey'', with the help of Stephen Baxter. However, he ''did'' say that the Time Odyssey novels form an "orthoquel" to the Space Odyssey novels. Well, what if the events narrated in the Time Odyssey novels are a consequence to the actions narrated in ''3001: Final Odyssey'', as an attempt by the Firstborn (who acquired the ability to manipulate time) not to just exterminate intelligence, but to {{Retcon}} it out of existence?

[[WMG: The Firstborn are [[{{Prometheus}} Engineers]].]]

** And the final timeline modification creates... [[ParanoiaFuel our timeline]]. Where no magnetic anomaly exists under the Tycho crater, no monolith exists in orbit around Jupiter or on the surface of Iapetus, and nobody set foot on the Moon again since 1972. Which implies that [=ET=], far from [[ETGaveUsWiFi giving us wi-fi]], deprived us of space travel.