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From: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: another 2010 mistake
Message-ID: <2791@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 14:27:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 14:27:04 1984
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Reply-To: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
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Summary: 

In article <1115@ut-ngp.UUCP> cmaz504@ut-ngp.UUCP (Steve Alexander) writes:
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>Another mistake in the film (other than Heywood Floyd knowing that the
>monolith hadn't been discussed with the crew) is the lone EVA pod in the 
>docking bay of Discovery. I had always thought that there were only 3 
>and if one was lost with Frank Poole, another when Bowman had to enter
>the ship manually (ahem) and the last when Bowman heads toward the
>monolith then why is that one there?

I believe that it is that way in the book, and so the film is just being
true to the book. As to whether the book is in error, I am not sure.


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