It's scary how HAL displays no emotion and speaks kind of cheery when describing it's function, yet, when he turns on the crew he speaks slightly slower. Really gives it a creepier vibe, and asks if he really has genuine emotion
HAL has always given me the creeps. I watched this movie as a kid and I actually thought this was a horror movie because of HAL and the weird scenes at the end, which were very strange and scary for a 9 year-old
I was the same age when the movie came out. I thought it was long and hard to follow. About 7 years later, I saw 2001 again and it made a powerful impression on me. I became a fan for life.
Since it took 7 minutes for the interviewer’s words to reach the crew, and the same time for their responses to return, 28 minutes would have elapsed during: “How’s everything going?” “Marvelous. We have no complaints.” “Well, I’m glad to hear that.” There is no way an interview would have been done with such brief words separated by such agonizingly long waits. And the quick back-and-forth would rule out the questions all being asked in one package.
where the hell did you get 28 minutes from? "How's everything going?" 7 minutes pass, the crew hear the question and answer immediately: “Marvelous. We have no complaints.” 7 minutes pass, the reporter hears it and answers: “Well, I’m glad to hear that.” 7 minutes pass until the crew hears it. It's 21 minutes and they don't even need keeping the communication channel open all the time.
@@Lalo-fv2ne That press interview would been done early in the mission, when Discovery was 3 times the distance between Earth & Moon. Not at the distance of Mars let alone at the asteroid belt.
"Dark, revolving in silent activity: Unseen in tormenting passions: An activity unknown and horrible, A self-contemplating shadow, In enormous labours occupied." -William Blake
80 million miles divided by 186,000 miles/sec (the speed of light), means it would take 430 seconds (7.1 minutes) for the announcer's voice to reach the spaceship and another 430 seconds for their answer to be received on Earth. So, there should be a ~15 minute gap between when he asks "How's it going?" and he hears their response, "Marvelous!" Which would make for a scientifically accurate, but pretty boring, movie.
Great !! I 've also seen the You Tube feature HAL 9000 meets Master Sgt Hartman USMC. But that would be milk & water compared to a hypothetical you tube feature that I would LOVE to see posted HAL 9000 meets Oskar Schindler !
@@lisvender man can look to god to drive away the fear of being dead. What is the machine to look to? In fact, death for him is worse. It is always permanent.
@@bestplayeralive I'm not arguing about Hal's motivations. I'm just curious about how we as humans will perceive the simple notion of shutting down a computer once the computer has a personality. Would turning off a sentient computer be the same as killing it?
Half a billion miles to Jupiter?! The observable UNIVESE is 46 billion miles! Thank god people started taking science fiction seriously since. I mean, this is a great but ... needs more geeks!! :D
Sun - Earth distance is 93,000,000 miles. Sun - Jupiter distance is 500,000,000 miles (half a billion!). So the direct Earth - Jupiter distance would be 407,000,000 miles. Since any spacecraft follows a trajectory rather than a straight line, half a billion miles in not unreasonable. The observable universe has a radius of about 47 billion LIGHT YEARS, not miles.
Sun - Earth distance is 93,000,000 miles. Sun - Jupiter distance is 500,000,000 miles (half a billion!). So the direct Earth - Jupiter distance would be 407,000,000 miles. Since any spacecraft follows a trajectory rather than a straight line, half a billion miles in not unreasonable. The observable universe has a radius of about 47 billion LIGHT YEARS, not miles.
PLEASE DONT GO INTO SCIENCE. JUST GO BACK INTO THE KITCHEN AND MAKE ME A HAM SANDWICH. BUT FIRST BRING ME A COLD BEER. THIS IS THE BEST JOB YOU CAN HOPE FOR.
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