You’re both wrong. The book was written solely by Clarke, the screenplay was by both Clarke and Kubrick. HAL was used because there was a supercomputer at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana that was named HAL. If you read the book you’d know. Sorry, I’m just a huge fan I had to make the correction.
ohai anni adn congarats to NS !! – waz a moobie in teh 1970′s aifinkso cawled 2010 A Space Odyssey. Teh pyooter in it tookified ober teh spase ship adn tawked to teh gui, whose nayme waz Dave.
Akshulee aifinkso Clarke adn Kubrick bofe denied that IBM connexion… adn said it wazza coinkidinki… but it makez a better stori tahn “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer” which iz what tehy said it meant!!
Ai yoosed 2 hab a font called Hal….it wuz laik digitul segmintz, adn Ai figgured teh naem caem frum teh moobie. Butt(!) Ai nebber hurd of teh IBM fing b4.
alert 2 awl cheezepeepz!
itz full of starz…. the obelisk in space ….
didn’t eny 1 else c 1 ob da mosted acclaimed movie ob awl time.*yawns reel wide*
2 mii it wuz 1 ob da mosted borin mobiez ob awl tyme. ai slept thru da lazt halve.
It caim owt in 1968 bd wuz amaizing tehn wen ai sor it! Teh sinnemas had tu widen tehir screnes !!
Lyke moast peeplol, ai faond teh ending hard tu unnerstan nd had tu rede teh buuk layter !!
Teh spektikle iz lawst awn teh smorl screne nowadaze, sadly, adn wi fawget taht teh standedd Sci-Fi moobie wuz liek Lawst in Space (teh Robinson famly) TVee seeryz !! 2001 wuz aklaimd fur gud reezin !!
Mai Tommy Tinker had a splotch across teh top ob his nose liek dat, wehn it firs shod up ai trid tu cleen it off. but it gru an gru an truned ot tu nobe dert. was his nose! kyute! ai still miss him. nao ai hassa sad
Does anybody else remember what happened when Dave began to deprogram HAL? The computer began by trying to reason with Dave and talk him out of it, and the more plugs Dave pulled, the more frantic the computer got. Finally HAL’s talking got slower and slower and slower and finally, by the time HAL’s brain was reduced clear back to its original programming, HAL began singing. “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy, all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage. But you’ll look sweet, upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.” And HAL’s voice went slower and deeper until it finally dragged to a stop. The significance of this episode was that “Bicycle Built For Two” was the first song that was computerized from the human voice. I could be wrong, but I think it was done by the Bell Telephone people, clear back in the late 50s. I remember hearing it on the “Schoolhouse Of The Air” on WPS radio in 1959.
ohai, kafleen! ai not getz on heer 2 offen, butt! gud 2 c yr naem agin! yess, tehre wuz sew mush sim ball ism n taht moovee! Taht smstr ai wuz taken fizziks, aster onnimee and kal cueless awl atonce! Mai hed wuz xplodin! An wehn ai cud ack chewly RAED teh blakbored behine teh sigh entists, mai hed jus xploded sum moer! Teh mewzik wuz soothin, tho, wuzznt it?
Juss tink, ai bin draggin tihs factoid aroun en mai branium 4 haf a sencherree nao! Glad 2 shair tihs brane werm wif mai fello cheezpeepz! Waht r frenz 4, eh?
Izzit tiem fur 2010 kitteh?
Congrats, NS – lukks liek u haz a solow!
ohai nightshayde congaratz.
2010 seemed sssssooooooooooo far in2 da future. an nao it’z here
Nawt sekkund wuz “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Teh follow-up moovee wuz “2010: The Year We Make Contact.”
Teh flobble-on buk woz 2061.
iz 2010
aah, rite – 2001 – space Odysee refrence, rite?
u noe, ai nebber sawe dat movee – must bee dah onlee one on da planet!!
Nope, you’re nawt dah onlee one
ai nebber saw itz tu
me eever.
Me 4!
me, um *counts on paws* fibe! dats it, fibe!
Ai nebber sawe it edder – so der’s six uv us!
I saw it elebenty times, sew yu can awl hab part ob my memry.
Faiv.poynt.faiv fur mii….5 n 1968, adn agin awn TB teh ovver nait, butt(!) just until HAL delibered hiz famuss lion.
An Ai can’t fink uv a commint!
Iz dis a ref 2 sumfing?
2001 a space odysea. stanley kubrick
hal the computer won’t let dave back into the spaceship lest a human ruin the mission.
oh, nao ai git itz! dat wus longtiemago. memry not dat gud.
nebber saw mobie but mai brudder tol me about it
My memry is fotografic, but I can’t get dat type ob film any moar.
Wot hab u eggspozed yawselb tu ….. !!
*Kwiklee wrapz yarn arownd adn arownd JD 2 cober hiz eggspozed parts* Ur welcoem.
Little known trivia. HAL was used because Stanley Kubrick was threatened with a lawsuit for using IBM. HAL is one letter before IBM.
Book was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
You’re both wrong. The book was written solely by Clarke, the screenplay was by both Clarke and Kubrick. HAL was used because there was a supercomputer at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana that was named HAL. If you read the book you’d know. Sorry, I’m just a huge fan I had to make the correction.
ohai anni adn congarats to NS !! – waz a moobie in teh 1970′s aifinkso cawled 2010 A Space Odyssey. Teh pyooter in it tookified ober teh spase ship adn tawked to teh gui, whose nayme waz Dave.
Thx! Ai hazn’t been 2 teh moobiez sinse ‘bowt 1968! Nawt berry offn b4 dat – yoost 2 get bad migrainez frum goin 2 moobiez.
mobie wuz made in 1968. Da speshul effekts wuz grate den, nawt herkey-jerkey or stop-motion.
Itz frum “2001: A Space Odyssey,” (1968 Sci-Fi movie) and then a follow-up movie, “2010,” was made in 1984.
The computer on the spaceship starts to think for itself & apologizes to Dave when it will no longer follow his instructions.
If yu can see youtube, this is a clip of the relevant bit: (Sorry, I haven’t yet learned to embed videos in comments):
h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyUMmNl4hk
Thx! I did know that HAL was called that as each letter was the one before those in IBM!
ai didnt no dat!
neever did ai – hao inner resting!
Akshulee aifinkso Clarke adn Kubrick bofe denied that IBM connexion… adn said it wazza coinkidinki… but it makez a better stori tahn “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer” which iz what tehy said it meant!!
Ai yoosed 2 hab a font called Hal….it wuz laik digitul segmintz, adn Ai figgured teh naem caem frum teh moobie. Butt(!) Ai nebber hurd of teh IBM fing b4.
Wuz it liek teh bottum ob a czech ?? * Hee, hee *
*wispurrs to annipuss*
Ai feel teh saem way. Ai iz nawt eben shur wut mah comment meenz.
AI iz artificially intelligent … and ober HAL 9000!
Ai couldn’t eether! I still can’t!
ooooops ment tu say 2001 Space Odyssey – noodle be rite !
uy pyooter is taykin ober
elebenty elebenty a feline odyssi
alert 2 awl cheezepeepz!
itz full of starz…. the obelisk in space ….
didn’t eny 1 else c 1 ob da mosted acclaimed movie ob awl time.*yawns reel wide*
2 mii it wuz 1 ob da mosted borin mobiez ob awl tyme. ai slept thru da lazt halve.
yesh, deh munkees wif teh obylisk mayded mai brayne borked.
It caim owt in 1968 bd wuz amaizing tehn wen ai sor it! Teh sinnemas had tu widen tehir screnes !!
Lyke moast peeplol, ai faond teh ending hard tu unnerstan nd had tu rede teh buuk layter !!
Teh spektikle iz lawst awn teh smorl screne nowadaze, sadly, adn wi fawget taht teh standedd Sci-Fi moobie wuz liek Lawst in Space (teh Robinson famly) TVee seeryz !! 2001 wuz aklaimd fur gud reezin !!
ai wuz still cornfuzed when ai readed da book. Didnawt explain bery well. Made more sense when ai saw 2010.
Iz tyme foar mai napz. Nawt du ennyfing foar elebentee owurz.
**gentlee gibs WRr schmoo**
Ohai red. Ai nawt awn much tunite. Dr Eyecat gibbed meh teh eyedrops adn ai haz teh bigg hed ackes furm teh brite sun.
Feel bedder soon, fren.
**gentlol hedbonks**
ai donno wat dis wun is about. butt ai liek teh pixtur
Is da cyoot. Pinkkee black dot nosee! *Goes to think of taxes*
Yu rite! Luuks lyke somebodi bin playin wif a Sharpie aifinkso…
Mai Tommy Tinker had a splotch across teh top ob his nose liek dat, wehn it firs shod up ai trid tu cleen it off. but it gru an gru an truned ot tu nobe dert. was his nose! kyute! ai still miss him. nao ai hassa sad
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Plz to remember teh gud fingz abowt Tommy Tinker & nawt so muchlee abowt missing him. Itz nawt eezee — we awl unnerstands.
But…mai name is nawt Dave…yoo has teh wrong person! WAYT, IM TELLIN TEH TROOTH MAN! NOOOOOOOES!!!!
butt, butt i’m tellin u…..Dave’z knot here!
knock, knock psst:
it’z mi dave, lettme in.
dave’s knot here
an repete, repete, repete ad infinitum
Heehee! Luv tohse old Cheech adn Chong riffs… guud tymes…
But ai can has a dave heer at mai hows. nd ai wisht ai ebbur fawt tu sai dat kwote wen ai dint want tu du wut he wantz.
Shirley yoo cannt be seeryus.
Mai name is nawt Shirley OR seeryus edder! I PROMISE!
lubs da kitteh, not know whut else ta say!
Guess ai shuda watchedt da mobie.
da cquel 2010 wuz a muchli moor excitin mobie. 2001 wuz, inna mi opinin, quite pretenchious an boring……….
Itz HAL owt heer !! * nd torkin bak tu mi tuu *
Any Goon Show fanz left? “It must bii HAL in tehre!”.. waz one ov Major Bloodnok’s catchfrazes aifinkso. Be4 hiz tyme, hii waz.
Nebber mist a Goon Sho iffn Ai cud halp it! Got moast uv dem awn audio taep.
Lubbed Fawlty Towers wif John Cleese…..
” Yuu sillee twisted boi ” * doant du taht *
I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going.
Does anybody else remember what happened when Dave began to deprogram HAL? The computer began by trying to reason with Dave and talk him out of it, and the more plugs Dave pulled, the more frantic the computer got. Finally HAL’s talking got slower and slower and slower and finally, by the time HAL’s brain was reduced clear back to its original programming, HAL began singing. “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy, all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage. But you’ll look sweet, upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.” And HAL’s voice went slower and deeper until it finally dragged to a stop. The significance of this episode was that “Bicycle Built For Two” was the first song that was computerized from the human voice. I could be wrong, but I think it was done by the Bell Telephone people, clear back in the late 50s. I remember hearing it on the “Schoolhouse Of The Air” on WPS radio in 1959.
Now I want to watch the movie again!
ohai, kafleen! ai not getz on heer 2 offen, butt! gud 2 c yr naem agin! yess, tehre wuz sew mush sim ball ism n taht moovee! Taht smstr ai wuz taken fizziks, aster onnimee and kal cueless awl atonce! Mai hed wuz xplodin! An wehn ai cud ack chewly RAED teh blakbored behine teh sigh entists, mai hed jus xploded sum moer! Teh mewzik wuz soothin, tho, wuzznt it?
Juss tink, ai bin draggin tihs factoid aroun en mai branium 4 haf a sencherree nao! Glad 2 shair tihs brane werm wif mai fello cheezpeepz! Waht r frenz 4, eh?
HAL noes u bettur dan u kno yoreself
Ai wont openz teh pod bey dorz.
wuld yu leik mi tu singasong? mai programmur teachified et tu mi…