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Subject: Re: Re: Discovery pods
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:23:14 EST
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> 
> Of course, all this discussion about the differences in the handling
> of the pods (and other things in general) between the BOOK 2001, and
> the MOVIE 2001 is moot.  Clarke wrote the BOOK 2010 as a sequel
> to the MOVIE 2001.
> 
> 			SJBerry


This is true, but my question still remains: what do the people mean
who say that, in the book, Bowman retrieved the pod by remote control?
Some mail from Peter Bain prompted me to re-read that part last weekend.
In that sequence, Bowman never goes after Poole. When last seen, the pod,
still under HAL's control and with the lifeless form of Frank Poole still
tethered to it, was accelerating away from the Discovery at full thrust.

BTW, as Peter pointed out, this occured while they were still several
months away from Saturn so there was plenty of time to re-pressurize the
ship. There was also a mention of the smell from the rotting food which
"the air purifiers could never quite get rid of."

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