Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Discovery pods Message-ID: <1738@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 19:54:40 EST Article-I.D.: zehntel.1738 Posted: Thu Jan 10 19:54:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 03:00:35 EST Distribution: net Organization: Zehntel Automation Systems Inc, Walnut Creek CA Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.movies:5429 net.sf-lovers:5542 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 ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh