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Kubrick is Cool

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY YET AND PLAN TO, DON'T READ THIS

I was talking to someone here who has read a bunch of Arthur C. Clarke's books (the guy that wrote 2001), and I asked her what the hell the movie meant. She explained it, so now Stanley Kubrick isn't quite as insane as I thought he was:

Drew: so what's the explanation
Me: it apparently has to do with the other books too
Me: The monoliths (black box things) are machines built by an advanced species because they have advanced past their ability to evolve with natural selection (kind of like humans)
Me: so they built the machines to help evolve via machinery
Me: they used the monoliths to trigger evolution in humans (as shown by the monkeys and their tools and stuff)
Drew: hmm
Drew: interesting
Me: they came from Jupiter because they are going to turn Jupiter into a star
Me: because Europa (one of its moons) is frozen with supposed life under the ice
Me: so the sun of Jupiter would make a perfect way to melt the ice
Drew: hmm...
Drew: have you put this on your site yet?
Me: at the end, they turn Dave into one of them (a star child)...they take his mind for their own purposes later on
Me: no
Me: I should!!!!

And there you have it. The supposed acid trip has been explained.