![]() ![]() When Bowman approaches the monolith, it opens and pulls in Bowman's pod. The scientists on Earth name this monolith "TMA-2", which Bowman identifies as a double misnomer because it is not in the Tycho crater and gives off no magnetic anomaly. ![]() During his approach, he gradually notices a small black spot on the surface of Iapetus, and later finds it identical in shape to TMA-1, only much larger. Bowman learns that Hal had begun to feel guilty at keeping the purpose of the mission from him and Poole, against his stated mission of gathering information and reporting it fully and when threatened with disconnection, he panicked and defended himself out of a belief that his very existence was at stake, having no concept of sleep.īowman spends months on the ship alone, slowly approaching Iapetus. He then learns that his mission is to explore Iapetus, in the hope of contacting the society that buried the monolith on the Moon. From a sealed emergency shelter, Bowman gains a spacesuit and re-enters the ship, where he shuts down Hal's consciousness, leaving intact only his autonomic functions, and manually re-establishes contact with Earth. As Bowman begins to awaken his colleagues, he hears Hal open both airlocks into space, releasing the ship's internal atmosphere. Bowman threatens to disconnect him if his orders are not obeyed, and Hal relents. Bowman, uncertain of Hal's role therein, decides to wake the other three astronauts, and therefore quarrels with Hal, with Hal refusing to obey his orders. These instructions are interrupted as the signal is broken, and Hal informs them that the AE-35 unit has malfunctioned.Īs Poole is removing the unit he is killed when his spacesuit is torn, exposing him to the vacuum of space. In communicating with Earth, Poole and Bowman are directed to disconnect Hal for analysis. Poole and Bowman become suspicious at Hal's refusal to admit that his diagnosis was mistaken Hal then claims that the replacement AE-35 unit will fail. Poole takes one of the extra-vehicular pods and swaps the AE-35 unit but when Bowman conducts tests on the removed AE-35 unit, he determines that there was never anything wrong with it. While Poole is receiving a birthday message from his family on Earth, Hal tells Bowman that the AE-35 communication unit of the ship is going to malfunction. The HAL 9000, an artificially intelligent computer, addressed as "Hal", maintains the ship. Francis Poole are the only conscious human beings aboard, while their three colleagues are in suspended animation, to be awakened near Saturn. The book then tells of the Discovery One mission to Saturn, whereof Dr. Therefore, no shadows were seen on its jet black surface. One feature of the exposed monolith was that it absorbed all the sunlight cast on it. It then sends a piercing radio transmission to one of the moons of Saturn, Japetus (Iapetus), where an expedition is then planned to investigate. Floyd and a team of scientists travel across the Moon to view TMA-1, and arrive as sunlight falls upon it for the first time in three million years. An excavation of the area has revealed a large black slab, precisely fashioned to a ratio of exactly 1:4:9, or 1²:2²:3², and therefore believed the work of intelligence. Upon his arrival, Floyd attends a meeting, where a lead scientist explains that they have found a magnetic disturbance in Tycho, one of the Moon's craters, designated Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One, or TMA-1. Heywood Floyd's travel to Clavius Base on the Moon. The book suggests that the monolith was instrumental in awakening intelligence. ![]() They then use the tools to kill a leopard preying on them the next day, the main ape character, Moon-Watcher, uses a club to kill the leader of a rival tribe. The ape-men use their tools to kill animals and eat meat, ending their starvation. (in the movie, 4 million years), where it inspires a starving group of hominids to develop tools. The book shows one such monolith appearing in ancient Africa, 3 million years B.C. In the background to the story in the book, an ancient and unseen alien race uses a device with the appearance of a large crystalline monolith to investigate worlds all across the galaxy and, if possible, to encourage the development of intelligent life.
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