Re: Happy New Year! Meanwhile from Iapetus...

From: Jud McCranie (youknowwhat.mccranie_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/03/05


Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:42:19 -0500

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:29:14 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote:

>Folks here have read the intro to 2010, correct?

I haven't. I saw the 2001 and 2010 movies and read the 2001 book. In
the original story, they were at Iapetus, moon of Saturn. The rings
were too hard to do well for the movie, so they changed it to Jupiter.

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