#Hal 9000 quotes series#

Frank Poole and Bowman are becoming suspicious of Hal's behaviour. Then it should be a simple matter to track down the problem.' But by this time, both Dr. Noting that this kind of thing has always been because of human error when it has occurred before, Hal suggests that they go out and 'replace the malfunctioning unit and allow it to fail.

#Hal 9000 quotes series#

This is a bit of a surprise, as the 9000 series has a perfect operational record.

They radio Mission Control about the problem, and Mission Control says that Hal is in error predicting the fault. But when he brings it back and runs it through diagnostics, they can find no problem with the AE-35. David Bowman goes out and retrieves the unit. He suggests that they go EVA and replace the faulty unit with a new one. HAL also has several 'eyes' placed periodically around the spacecraft.Ībout three weeks into the flight, Hal picks up a fault in the AE-35 unit, the system responsible for keeping the satellite dish antenna aligned with the Earth, and states that it will go one-hundred percent failure within 72 hours. HAL is built into the Discovery One spacecraft, and is in charge of maintaining all mechanical and life support systems on board.

2 2010: Odyssey Two/The Year We Make Contact.

Mission Control did not want the crew of Discovery to have their thinking compromised by the knowledge that alien contact was already real.) With the crew dead, HAL reasons, he would not need to lie to them. In every person tested, a deep-seated xenophobia was revealed, which was unknowingly replicated in HAL's constructed personality. (This withholding is considered essential after the findings of a psychological experiment, 'Project Barsoom', where humans were made to believe that there had been alien contact. The novel explains that HAL is unable to resolve a conflict between his general mission to relay information accurately, and orders specific to the mission requiring that he withhold from Bowman and Poole the true purpose of the mission. HAL speaks in a soothing male voice, always using a calm tone. Hal is capable of many functions, such as speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, lip-reading, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on Discovery. HAL is a HAL 9000 computer with a human personality.

He is the hidden main antagonist of 2001 and returns as a-soon-to-be-redeemed villain in 2010.

HAL 9000, more commonly called 'HAL', became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1992. The HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) 9000 computer is an artificial intelligence and the onboard computer on the spaceship Discovery One.