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“This is a prerecorded briefing made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance has been known on board during the mission only by your HAL 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter’s space and the entire crew is revived it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. lt was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter the 4-million-year-old monolith has remained completely inert its origin and purpose still a total mystery.”