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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
I think you're confusing "having a different interpretation" with "overlooking".
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Ok. Before we go any further you need to read the novel by Clarke. It was written while he and Kubrick worked on the screenplay for 2001. In it he fills in all of the holes. Kubrick decided (as he always does) to make the film hugely ambiguous. But Clarke spells it all out in the novel.
Those were nuclear space ships. The earth was on the brink of an all out nuclear war (extinction). And the aliens intervened.
So why did they bury the monolith on the moon?