Word: rama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA...
Rendezvous with Rama, also offers film makers enormous opportunities for awesome props. Its true protagonist is not a person at all but a huge artificial world that sails into the solar system in the year 2130. At that point in space/ time−to make that abominable locution perfectly clear−the solar system has been politically organized into a federation of planets inhabited by descendants of earth pioneers...
...mysterious UFO, named Rama by its puzzled observers, is a metallic cylinder more than 30 miles long and twelve across and weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
...Rama has its own weather, sea and balanced ecology. Its creatures are forms of organic machines that either benignly watch the visitors or drag off broken objects, thus keeping the landscape junk-free. But who built Rama and why remain a mystery, though the discovery of human-like artifacts encoded as 3-D blueprints in crystal columns suggests that Rama is some sort of vast ark in search of a new home. But in fact its only interest in the solar system is to tank up on the sun's hydrogen before rounding the next cosmic bend without...
...guru's personal appeal is also rooted in the power of direct experience. Maraj Ji is said to be the latest in a long line of Perfect Masters, which include Moses. Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna and Rama...