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   Derek Janssen  writes:   
      
   >Doug Elrod wrote:   
      
   >> I think that "2001: A Space Odyssey" inspired the Gypsy lip-reading in   
   >> "Mitchell", along with, of course, the merging of Dr. F with the "The   
   >> Worst Movie Ever Made" in "Laserblast".  (There are probably other   
   >> references to his work, aren't there?)   
      
   >The monolith-choruses coming from the missile-that-wasn't-there, in   
   >"Rocket Attack USA"...   
      
   	And there's the 'I was about to become a Star Child' moment in   
   Space Travelers, and a fair number of times that some automated machine   
   would talk in its obnoxious way and get labelled Hal.  And, to branch   
   out from 2001 a bit, Crow's discovery that there are beekepers out there   
   (in ``Samson Versus The Vampire Women'') derives from 2010.   
      
   	The Umbilicon/cus/port/etc is, as a tether from the Earth to   
   the Satellite of Love, a notion which Arthur C Clarke made famous in   
   _The Fountains of Paradise_ and in technical and popular essays that   
   explained such a thing was not completely insane an idea.   
      
   	And I forget which Brain mentioned that in developing the   
   Observers they remembered Clarke's Third Law, that sufficiently   
   advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic, and thought   
   that even if people have sufficiently advanced technology they may   
   still be pretty dumb in a lot of ways.   
      
   	I believe in a few experiments they identified vaguely   
   English-looking people as Arthur C Clarke.  Arthur C Pierce was also   
   semi-identified that way, like at the start of The Human Duplicators.   
      
      
   	That's a lot of stuff for me to have on the top of my head.   
   Wow.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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