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Over at Correlations, Cifford predicts I'll 'love' his post on these inhabitants of the Macquarie Ridge near New Zealand, adding:
I really hope the scientists said that* when they found this. Really. It's a mountain, underwater, colonized by millions of starfish. Amazing.
[*Pop quiz: Without Google-cheating - Anyone know what the title is a quote from?]
The answer is of course, it's from Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which makes two reasons Clifford is absolutely right about my reaction! After all, Intersection readers know echinoderms are the coolest marine invertebrate around...
Go check out the BBC's 'Brittlestar city' video to watch these critters in action!
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not to be the 'someone is wrong on the internet' guy - but the quote is from 2010 (retro-dubbed in that movie to the scene in 2001)
Posted by: andy | May 20, 2008 10:12 AM
Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Hamlet.
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Posted by: Wes Rolley | May 20, 2008 10:50 AM
Nah, Galileo said it first, but they forgot to film him saying it.
Posted by: John Monfries | May 21, 2008 8:28 PM
It's time to re-release the movie as "2001: The Future The Way It Used To Be."
Posted by: Bruce | May 21, 2008 9:37 PM