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Jan 27 11 1:03 PM
Jan 27 11 1:29 PM
todmichel wrote: Quote: "When the jawbone swings into the sky and the weapons platform takes it place..."I'm sorry to tell that this idea was "lifted" from an earlier British movie, in black & white. Its title escapes me at the moment, but I saw it on TV years ago.
Jan 27 11 3:06 PM
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Jan 28 11 4:41 PM
atenolol wrote:Fellows:"I will be 53 next week"Like I said, a sharp young fellow (at least compared to me)"Tarentino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS must have given you conniption fits."No. That likely would have proven fatal."Do I think this is what happened . . ." "No."Okay."it inspired deep thinking"It is a majestic movie.Thanks all of you for the debate.
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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.
Jan 30 11 1:55 AM
Jan 30 11 2:05 AM
Jojo Lapin X wrote:Andrew Kidd wrote: When the jawbone swings into the sky and the weapons platform takes it place . . . The "weapons platform"?
Andrew Kidd wrote: When the jawbone swings into the sky and the weapons platform takes it place . . .
ryanbrennan wrote:. . . Apropos of nothing, I was reading Stefanie Powers' autobiography today at work during lunch and she claims that she was the first voice of HAL before being replaced by one of the Nigels, Green or Davenport (I can't remember right now and I don't have the book with me), before Douglas Rain became the voice we know today.
Jan 30 11 5:05 AM
scotpens wrote: The four satellites we see orbiting Earth after the famous jump cut were originally intended to be nuclear weapons platforms -- an idea that was eventually discarded from the film, but showed up in Arthur Clarke’s novel.
Jan 30 11 9:11 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?
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