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Are We Alone? - The Stanley Kubrick Extraterrestrial Intelligence Interviews (Paperback)
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Are We Alone? - The Stanley Kubrick Extraterrestrial Intelligence Interviews (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 490
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When Stanley Kubrick was working on the development of his classic
movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey", he arranged that twenty-one of the
leading scientists in the world be interviewed on film, to
speculate about their ideas on life in the universe and the impact
its discovery would have on us. He wanted to cut into the movie,
alongside the narrative, snippets from the interviews. Eventually,
he discarded the idea and the interviews were never used. When it
came time to issue a celebratory DVD of Kubrick's masterpiece,
there was a suggestion that the interviews could be issued as part
of the disc set. Alas, the film could not be found and it appeared
that all had been lost, perhaps mis-filed in some dusty archive or
else, sadly, even destroyed. However, four foolscap ring-binders
containing the typed transcripts of the interviews were discovered
and these make the basis of this remarkable book. All those
interviewed were or have become major international figures in
their fields. Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin wrote what has been
described as the first and principal modern appreciation of
extraterrestrial life. Harlow Shapley was one of the finest
American astronomers and someone to whom we owe our understanding
of the size and shape of our galaxy. B. F. Skinner was renowned for
his work on behavioural conditioning. Margaret Mead was the most
famous anthropologist of her generation. Frank D. Drake pioneered
SETI and formulated the Drake Equation. Fred Whipple might well be
considered the great astronomer of the twentieth century. And these
are just six names taken at random. The whole collection represents
a brilliant over-view of scientific, philosophical and ethical
considerations of the implications of the possibility of other
forms of life within the universe. And the comments are as potent
now as they were nearly fifty years ago.
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