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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
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Subject: Discovery pods
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 19:54:40 EST
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All of you people who claim that in the book 2001 Bowman retrieves
his pod by remote control after his "helmetless" re-entry must have
a different version of the book than I.

According to my copy of 2001, the original version published concurrent
with the movie, Bowman never goes after Poole. After HAL bunted Poole
into oblivion with the pod, Bowman tracks him with the telescope. Seeing
that the air line is torn and that the body doesn't move (except for a
random flapping of an arm a la the dead Captian Ahab in "Moby Dick")
Bowman decides that the rescue of a dead body is not worth the danger
of an EVA.  It is *Poole's* pod that Bowman returns by remote control.

HAL then tries to kill Bowman by opening both the inner and outer pod bay
doors at the same time and evacuating the ship. He has to struggle "uphill"
against this artificial hurricane until he reaches the emergency cubicle
where the spare space suit is.

After disconnecting HAL, Bowman takes one of the pods into the monolith.
So, *according to the book*, the pod bay should have had *two* pods,
both with doors attached, and no air in the ship. Of course, according
to the book, they should have been around Saturn as well!

                             Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems
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