[FPSPACE] Happy New Year! 21st Century! 3rd Millenium!

[Raoul Lannoy]

January first will be a new:
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Week
Month
Year
Decade
Century
Millennium
And it's 2001 , the year I've been dreaming about since I saw the movie (in
1968) that started with an Earthrise and the Richard Strauss music "Thus
Spake Zarathustra".
I'm forever thankful to sir Arthur C Clarke and the late Stanley Kubrick for
having wanted to make the "Proverbial good Science Fiction film"and having
inspired so many people, at the time!
In 2001, on Space Station V, Russian and American scientists are friends .
This was guessed all the way back in 1965. Now, we can share info and
thoughts through the internet and this was not part of the expected things
for 2001. At least, HAL 9000 is quiet (if he's somewhere, lurking...)
We don't have (going to Jupiter and Saturn) a Spaceship called Discovery but
there is Cassini!

Happy New Millennium!

Raoul