Talk:Monolith (Space Odyssey)

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The monolith can be seen in the mmo game eve-online [1] Can anyone add this to the page? It can be seen in a level 2 agent mission, doesn't have an exact place.

The Monolith (disambiguation) page leads to this page. Is there a policy about two disambiguation pages one after the other?

If this one is also a disambiguation page, shouldn't its name reflect this?

Somnoliento 06:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Possible Vandalism??

Short Article though it is, this Article on the Momolith seems to have been vandalized -either that, or these is a whole lot about the Monoliths that I don't remember reading about. Thanos777 05:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Tycho Magnetic Anomaly TMA-1 into this article

It seems that there is no discussion about this yet! That's a susprise because it seems like an obvious merge. I fully support this idea. Does anyone disagree? -- Lilwik 05:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Nope. I can't imagine many people seeking information about the Monolith in 2001 would know the exact technical term. Hmmm. Although the purpose of an encyclopedia is not to dumb-down to the lowest common denominator. So maybe this should be merged into that. VonBlade 00:02, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Why would we want to merge this into that? The TMA is just one example of monolith related weird stuff. Surely we should merge the TMA article into this one. -- Lilwik 00:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major Rewrite!

Had this in draft for ages and finally had the time to finalise most of it. Any suggestions or alterations welcome. Some more screenshots would also be good BTW.--ChrisJMoor 01:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zagadka

who said it means Big Brother in Russian? is that in the book? anywho factually incorrect since Zagadka = Riddle or 'unsolved mystery/question' in Russian. so i dont know about "This is a reference to Big Brother, the enigmatic and apparently omniscient antagonist from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four". in this case as everyone around wiki likes to throw around - *source is needed* - Obrez 16:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Out of Universe"

I don't know if you know this, but ... the Monolith is FICTIONAL. Popular references in culture DO BELONG, because it has an impact on culture. You must love deleting actual useful information. Maybe you should contribute to this Wikipedia instead. (rolling eyes) JAF1970 (talk) 15:00, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Additional Monolith

The article misses that another Monolith appears at the end of the film 2001 at the end of Bowman's bed as he transforms into the Star Child. I haven't read all the books - is it cleared up if the Monolith is directly responsible for Bowman's transformation?

Also in the 2001 comic the Monoliths can act like a viewing screen to educate characters. This was a concept Kubrick considered for the film but ditched. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.85.13.114 (talk) 17:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)