>>513586716
>crystalline/laser 'hard drives' cropping up in PopSci headlines the past decade or so ...
>crystals - like ice core samples and carbon dating - encode the geo-magnetic state of the earth during its formation ...
>DNA & the Brain is basically a crystal

>>24542246
archon monoliths

Does the simulation thing (and dark forest thing) cleaner and leaner than most before or after it.

>>24542269
>The movie is a genuinely poor adaptation

The novel was contracted out by Kubrick, with full creative control. "Astronauts in outerspace is the most surface level of the narrative."