Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxg!burton From: burton@inuxg.UUCP (Thomas Burton) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: 2010 Message-ID: <277@inuxg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 09:23:58 EST Article-I.D.: inuxg.277 Posted: Fri Mar 16 09:23:58 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:39:03 EST Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 16 xx <- two footed stomp In the book ( I know this is net.movies, flames off!), what happened to HAL, and what was Bowman's (and HAL's too?) mission? I felt that the story just dropped them when Jupiter did its thing... My understanding is that they were the in the monolith acting as Watchers over the new life form on (whatever moon it was; you know, the octopus- like things). Just as the first monolith uplifted the apes, HAL and Bowman will do something similar for the (whatever they are). Doug Burton ATT-CP Indianapolis inuxg!burton