Short Story where there is a building on the moon or another planet that is protected by a force field
Mankind uses nuclear weapons to finally breach the force field and discover that a signal was activated to aliens. Our ability to breach the force field told aliens we were advanced enough to come back check on! I read this in college and can't find it again!
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And when would "college" have been? :) more generally: could you take a look at these guidelines, see if that triggers any more memories you could edit in?
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And when would "college" have been? :) more generally: could you take a look at these guidelines, see if that triggers any more memories you could edit in?
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"The Sentinel" aka "Sentinel of Eternity", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, on which the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposedly based. First published in 10 Story Fantasy, Spring 1951, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in New Worlds Science Fiction #22, April 1954, also available at the Internet Archive.
"The Sentinel" was the answer to this old question among others.
Wikipedia summary:
The story deals with the discovery of an artefact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging "to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces."
The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed "with the savage might of atomic power". The narrator hypothesizes that this "sentinel" was left on the moon as a "warning beacon" for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the operation of the sentinel is activated when sunlight touches it for the first time after it is dug up.
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"The Sentinel" aka "Sentinel of Eternity", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, on which the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposedly based. First published in 10 Story Fantasy, Spring 1951, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in New Worlds Science Fiction #22, April 1954, also available at the Internet Archive.
"The Sentinel" was the answer to this old question among others.
Wikipedia summary:
The story deals with the discovery of an artefact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging "to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces."
The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed "with the savage might of atomic power". The narrator hypothesizes that this "sentinel" was left on the moon as a "warning beacon" for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the operation of the sentinel is activated when sunlight touches it for the first time after it is dug up.
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"The Sentinel" aka "Sentinel of Eternity", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, on which the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposedly based. First published in 10 Story Fantasy, Spring 1951, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in New Worlds Science Fiction #22, April 1954, also available at the Internet Archive.
"The Sentinel" was the answer to this old question among others.
Wikipedia summary:
The story deals with the discovery of an artefact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging "to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces."
The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed "with the savage might of atomic power". The narrator hypothesizes that this "sentinel" was left on the moon as a "warning beacon" for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the operation of the sentinel is activated when sunlight touches it for the first time after it is dug up.
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"The Sentinel" aka "Sentinel of Eternity", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, on which the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposedly based. First published in 10 Story Fantasy, Spring 1951, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in New Worlds Science Fiction #22, April 1954, also available at the Internet Archive.
"The Sentinel" was the answer to this old question among others.
Wikipedia summary:
The story deals with the discovery of an artefact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging "to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces."
The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed "with the savage might of atomic power". The narrator hypothesizes that this "sentinel" was left on the moon as a "warning beacon" for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the operation of the sentinel is activated when sunlight touches it for the first time after it is dug up.
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"The Sentinel" aka "Sentinel of Eternity", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, on which the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposedly based. First published in 10 Story Fantasy, Spring 1951, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in New Worlds Science Fiction #22, April 1954, also available at the Internet Archive.
"The Sentinel" was the answer to this old question among others.
Wikipedia summary:
The story deals with the discovery of an artefact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging "to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces."
The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed "with the savage might of atomic power". The narrator hypothesizes that this "sentinel" was left on the moon as a "warning beacon" for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the operation of the sentinel is activated when sunlight touches it for the first time after it is dug up.
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