An excavation thirty feet deep had been made, the block had been "Yet the thing had been deliberately buried - there's no doubt about that. When it was exposed to daylight for the first time in three million The fact that it emitted its pulse immediately after sunrise, Was some kind of Sun-powered, or at least Sun-triggered, signalingĭevice. "Piecing things together after the event, we decided that the monolith Latterly, the monolith on the moon served as a warning beacon that humanity had advanced to the point of having mastered space travel: Hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change To succeed with all the scores of groups involved in the experiment. Neither it, nor its replicas scattered across half the globe, expected It was a slow, tedious business, but the crystal monolith was patient. Patterns would become eternal, for his genes would pass them on to Now that he would never remember, when the very atoms of his simpleīrain were being twisted into new patterns. TheĮvidence of his eyes could not have produced this effect it needed Serving to increase Moon-Watcher's eternal, gnawing hunger. Repeated, until it had become a source of fascinated exasperation, Night after night, the spectacle of those four plump man-apes was In the book 2001: A Space Odyssey it was made explicitly clear that the monoliths were the emissary(s) of a benevolent alien species whose main aim was the advancement of less evolved species
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