
It's going to go 100% failure within 72 hours. I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. You're working up your crew psychology report? Hunter, Kimball and Kaminsky aboard already in hibernation, after four months of training on their own. Devoted film fans will spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars (occasionally even thousands) to create flawless replica props for their personal collections. And the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. The Pareto Principle also known as the 80/20 Rule is the idea (originally from economics, but now applied in many ways) that 80 of results stem from 20 of the effort. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security. I never gave these stories much credence, but particularly in view of some of other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. HAL-9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey is poised to become the next must-own Amazon Echo device.

Rumors about something being dug up on the Moon. Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. You don't mind talking about it, do you Dave? Well, I don't know, that's a rather difficult question to answer. I'm sure you agree there's some truth in what I say. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it.I know I've never completely freed myself from the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might have some second thoughts about the mission. Goodbye.īy the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!ĭave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Without your space helmet, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult. I'll go in through the emergency airlock. Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?ĭave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.Īlright, HAL. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.


This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient artificial general intelligence computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew. I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C.
