A hodgepodge of photos from the Namib
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2001: A Space Odyssey (53 years later)
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey was filmed in England but the photos from the opening Dawn of Man sequence were taken in the Namib Desert in 1965. In January 2018, 50 years after the movie came out, two colleagues and I went out to the site where one of these photos was taken and re-photographed the area. Even 53 years later, much of the vegetation remains unchanged, but we were able to identify many plants that persisted during this time as well as several new ones that emerged.
We're writing up the results for publication and I'll post the link here once that's out. Hopefully before summer 2019!
We're writing up the results for publication and I'll post the link here once that's out. Hopefully before summer 2019!