This is, of course, one of the many, many famous lines from the ground-breaking movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, first seen this day, April 2nd, 1968, in the Uptown Theatre in Washington D.C.
The General Release of the movie was on April 3rd (or 6th, depending on your source). I saw it shortly thereafter while at college in Cleveland, Ohio.
Great, great movie – thanks again Sir Clarke and Mr. Kubrick…
(Picture from here – click on it for a larger version)
I now have twelve translations of “Space Elevator” on the Translation Project tab at the top of this blog.
One of the latest ones is the Dutch translation (ruimtelift) provided by reader Simon Vanden Bussche. I’m singling Simon’s contribution out because he wrote an article for ‘Euroavia News’, the newspaper of the European Association of Aerospace Students (Euroavia) and also posted on his blog, discussing the Space Elevator and also talking about the First European Space Elevator Conference held last September in Luxembourg. At the bottom of his posting, he links to one of the more comprehensive articles I’ve seen about the recent advances in carbon nanotube technology.
Thank you Simon! And thank you to the many others who have sent me translations – keep them coming!