The importance of being Sci-Fi

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Sorry, I know next to nothing about 2001, except that the familiar "dun...dun...dun...dundun!" comes from it. (Right?)

Wrong. It comes from Also Sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss. Kubrick just used the introduction (about a minute and a half, from a piece that lasts thirty) for the main title theme.

Do try a little harder than that.