Truyện ngắn tiếng Anh: 2001 A Space odysey

'In fact it's about three million years old.You are looking at the first proof of intelligent life beyond the Earth.' The speaker is Dr Roy Michaels, Chief Scientist at the Clavius Base on the Moon. The audience has been carefully chosen, because it is too soon to tell the world's population that they are not alone in the universe. On the screen behind Dr Michaels is a photograph of a black object about three metres high, of regular shape and with straight edges. It was certainly made by an intelligent form of life, and it was found buried under the surface of the Moon....