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It’s probably inside of a black rectangle that’s full of stars.


OK, I understand now.

...One by Four by Nine.

You are talking about the movie 2001, not the year 2001.

I thought you were referring to the spacecraft which (a few years ago) we inadvertently used as a ballistic missile against the previously peaceful Martians when we got furlongs and hogsheads confused with centimeters and hectoliters or something like that.

For some strange reason, this discussion has now brought KSR's "Stonehenge" book back into my mind, although I read it so many eons ago that I recall the plot not at all.