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Jan 30 11 1:19 AM
atenolol wrote:2. One question I had--HAL eliminated the crew because they would jeopardize the mission. After the crew was dead, who was going to do the mission? Was he just that nuts?HAL could not possibly have completed the mission in either the human or the alien sense (HAL lacks Bowman's flexibility,) this is the reason he/it is not chosen to become the next step in human evolution. Even if HAL had managed to eliminate all of the crew a second human, and third, and fourth expeditions, etc. would follow. There is no doubt about that. In fact, in Clarke's sequel he writes that Discovery has a sister ship which was meant to follow Discovery, but doesn't due to economic and political factors.3. A technical question--In the moon scene with the monolith, the men recoiled from the sound. Could they hear a sound on the moon? Does anyone know? I would think not because there is no atmosphere, but there must be some way this could happen that I don't know about.It is a 'radio' signal, which the moon walkers can hear, not sound traveling thru the void. Whoever made the monolith would be aware that a sound signal could not have traveled from the Moon to Jupiter.
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