By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
The screen is dark. Eerie and oddly dissonant music begins to play. The screen remains black. At two-minutes and fifty seconds the music stops, followed by six seconds of silence over the blank nothingness before the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM logo fills the screen as the symphonically ascending chords and drumbeats of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra increase in volume. In a view from the moon, the sun rises behind and then above the blue sphere of the earth.
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