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Clarke,Arthur C.: 2001
2001
Arthur C. Clarke
Primeval Night
The tribe and Moon-Watcher himself didn’t know
that the Monolith was mapping their bodies and studying their brains just at the
moment when they were looking at the pale, milky luminiscence from the monolith
which shows them moving and rotating patterns. The monolith made compulsive
sounds so that the man-apes came like sleep-walkers to their source to await the
next lesson. It shows the man-apes how to hunt and come to terms with starvation
and thought them how to built and use tools like knives and saws. The monolith
helped the man-apes to make their first steps into their
future.
T.M.A. I
Dr. Heywood Floyd is heading to the space station. He
has a special flight. After some time at the space station and after a
conversation with an old friend, the moon shuttle, which is going to take Dr.
Floyd down to the Calvius bose, is ready for him. His old friend, Dr. Dimitri
Moisewitch, seems to know something about T.M.A. I because he mentioned it
during their conversation and asked Dr. Floyd if they can handle it without
further help. On Calvius base Dr. Floyd gets information about everything they
know about T.M.A. I by now. So Floyd decides to go there himself. T.M.A. I is
the shortcut for “Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1”. T.M.A. I is a very
strong magnetic field which source was located in the Tycho crater. The second
expedition to Tycho found something very strange. In about 10 meters under the
ground. They show Dr. Floyd a photography which only a few people have been
allowed to see. It is about 10 feet high and five feet wide. It is sharp-edged
and perfectly symetrical. It is absolutely black and shows no surface details at
all. It seems to swallow all the light and can only be seen as a contrast to the
background. The scientists have found out that it is about 3 million years old
and the first evidence for intellegent life beyond earth. Dr. Floyd thinks that
it could be a sun powerd device. Then the lunar dawn comes and T.M.A. I greets
the sun light after a three million year sleep in darkness. And right that
moment several space probes detect an unknown signal coming fron moon and
heading through the solar system.
Between planets
Discovery is the fastest ship built by human beings. Its
mission is to fly to the ringed planet Saturn. Discovery shall go into orbit and
become a satalite of this planet. The voyage lasts for two years and Discovery
will never go back. The crew will spend five years in dreamless hibernation
until the yet unbuilt Discovery II will come for their rescue. David Bowman and
Frank Pool will stay will stay awake for two years in their little world of
Discovery while the three other scientist are already in hibernation and will
awake when they have reached Saturn in two years. The 3rd but
non-human crew member is the HAL 9000 computer unit. He is the brain and the
nerv structure of the ship. He is a masterpiece of the third computer
generation. His neural networks, generated by themselves, are far to complex for
human understanding. Bowman and Pool work for 12 hours a day and have a perfect
routine, which is absolutely necessary for their two year flight becouse the
result of mans most important mission is their responsebility. There are no
further events except their flyby of the asteroid 7794 and the planet Jupiter.
From both objects billions of bytes are sent to earth.
Abyss
HAL predicts some trouble in the AE 35 unit. The AE 35
unit is one of the 8000 sup units on board Discovery. That means that Pool has
to go outside to replace the unit otherwise they would lose contact with mother
earth. After Pool is back on the ship again they test te unit and become aware
of the fact that the AE 35 unit is fully functionable. The report to earth.
Earth base sends back the information: “the computer may have made an
error”. HAL reports that the replaced unit is also bad and that it will
fail within 24 hours. At the moment when earth control wants to give the
instruction how to disconnect HAL and switch to earth control, the AE 35 unit
fails. Connection lost....
The try to control the antena unit manually but there
seems to be a signal throwing it off.
Pool goes out again. Suddently the space pod crashs into
Pool and both fly out into space. Bowman stares after it until it disapears in
space. Bowman wants to wake up the 3 scientists. Bowman decides that he will
disconnect HAL. Suddenly the space pod garge doors open and the pressure falls
to zero. In the last second Bowman menages to get into a rescue cubicle. Inside
there is a spacesuit.
He disconnects HAL. <<very important 165 –
170>>
Now Dave is alone. Dr. Heywood Floyd explains the real
story to Dave. Dave decides to take the last space pod and fly directly into the
monolith. He experiences a incredibly voyage through space and time. And he
became the “star child”. <<very important 201 –
236>>
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