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Based on RF's observation, I looked at all three pix.


As she lands square to the pad, chances are SK offest the Aries for the red shot to suggest the fetus-embraced-by-technology-look more clearly. But while red is offset, it is still symmetrical to the landing pad dimensions.

I sourced the far rt side width of pad-edge to aries-foot as the base measurement. The pad itself appears to be a dash less than 5 widths across, with the Aries being about 2.66 widths across. The 4 slats on the cardinal points would seem to lock into Aries' cloven feet! That's a bit of interesting insight! I tried to square the pad to the red shot. but as you can see, there is still some distortion I couldn't account for. Given all this, I think it's darn close.

The landing shot also shows my guess to be wrong on the landing pad shapes. Clearly, the Aries fits within the pad's octagon. The LPad shot also shows the position of the camera relative to the distant pad shot. It could also be on the other side of where I drew it of course. But the pad grates show it must be one of those sides. Also, the backrow of lights in the big shot counts to 36 inc. the corners for 140 lights total.

Novel display options.
I like the living room/basement hoist idea! You could set up massive chains and winches like an old Frankenstein movie too!

The ceiling display is really where it's at though! 140 20,000mcd leds will light up the room quite nicely! LOL!.

chariot65 wrote:

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fetus-embraced-by-technology

I don't want to diverge from the topic too far, and whereas it is all up to the interpreter, and whereas SK was always stuffing nuance into every shot, but consider the landing bay as womb, the Aries as fetus/baby of technoligical humanity, the landing struts as arms embracing the child and lowering into safe harbor from the alien environment of space. It's also an analagous version of the starchild shots.

Moonwatcher (or his wife?) cradles the first generation of humanity about to evolve due to the monotlith, the hangar bay cradles the first generation of technological humanity, the EVAPod cradles dead Poole in it's arms (ala' The Pieta) signaling the death of technological humanity before it evolves into starchild humanity. Starchild is the organic evolution of technological humanity which is the evolution from 'apes'. Full circle.

The symbolism is staggering in this film. There is a reason why this is one of the greatest films ever. Like many here, I have likely seen this film 100+ times now and have never not picked up on another new insight with every viewing. Working out the landing pad comparison showed me the potentially interlocking foot slats I mentioned previously. While that's not a philosophical insight, it is yet one more subtle bit of nuance gained into the interconnectedness and forethought put into this film.

And again, it's all up to personal interpretation.
In this shot I see the symbol of infant-humanity cradled in a technological womb.
Perhaps it's just a spaceship in a docking port.


PS. Another thought I just had was that as the hull of Aries is a face with two eyes and a nose on each of four sides... Who was the god like that? The Babalonian Marduk, creator of humanity? There's a celtic underworld god named Arawan with four faces that can turn skin into metal, stone, diamond etc... And there are a few four-faced gods in Buddhist and Hindu traditions as well. Yet another symbol I had not considered before...The more you dig the deeper you get.