Frank Poole
Fictional Character
Discovery One...screen and gauge indications of subsurface characteristics. Despite its huge size, Discovery could be handled by the two astronauts (David Bowman and Frank Poole) and HAL 9000. In the book IBM predicted that computer development would have... In this article: David Bowman, HAL, Jupiter, Alexei Leonov, Heywood Floyd, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Saturn, Neutron, and Paranoia |
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Poole - HAL 9000
As HAL is supposed to be infallible, no one is surprised when HAL soundly defeats Poole (though the novel mentions that HAL is programmed only to win 50% of the time in order for there to be some point in the astronauts ever playing). The...
In this article: HAL, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roesch, Stanley Kubrick, and Hamburg
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The Lost Worlds of 2001
...make it into the final version. Alternative settings for launch preparation, the EVA scene where astronaut Frank Poole is lost, and varying dialogues concerning the HAL 9000 unit are all featured in the book. Also included is the original...
In this article: The Sentinel and HAL 9000
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Space burial
There have also been numerous space burials in the real robot anime series Gundam. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey '', is killed during extra-vehicular activity and dragged off to space by an uncontrolled capsule, so he isn't...
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2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
...unit but they are unable to find anything wrong with it. They contact Earth-based ground control, and are told that their on-board HAL 9000 computer is in error predicting the fault. This is shocking, since the 9000 series has a perfect...
In this article: HAL, David Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Heywood R. Floyd, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, MGM, and Daisy Bell
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Arthur C. Clarke
...Monoliths . With 3001: The Final Odyssey, Clarke returns to examine the character of astronaut Frank Poole, who was killed outside Discovery by HAL in the original novel and film, but whose body was revived in the year 3001. Most of...
In this article: Clarke Orbit, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur, Sri Lanka, The Sentinel, Royal Air Force, John R. Pierce, and Childhood's End
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3001: The Final Odyssey
...''Goliath, after drifting in space for a millennium, and brought back to life, deep-freezing to near absolute zero having preserved him sufficiently for the advanced medical technology of the time to be able to revive him. He then explores...
In this article: 3001: The Final Odyssey, Human, David Bowman, Jupiter, Arthur C. Clarke, Neptune, and Transcendence
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Frank Poole is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole was portrayed by Gary Lockwood.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole is an astronaut aboard the spacecraft Discovery One on the first manned mission to Jupiter (Saturn in the novel). He and Dave Bowman are the only passengers who are not in suspended animation.
Poole and Bowman discuss disconnecting HAL 9000, the ship's computer, after it mistakenly predicts that the AE-35 unit (an electronic unit in the ship's main antenna) has failed. They realize that HAL is capable of error, and privately discuss disconnecting him. They believe themselves to be out of HAL's hearing range, but the computer, which can read lips, learns of their plan and resolves to get rid of the threat.
Shortly afterward, Poole begins replacing the AE-35 unit. In an act resembling the human response of survival, HAL rams Poole with one of the ship's pods, severing his oxygen hose and killing him. HAL then refuses to let Bowman return to the ship after his successfully intercepting and recovering Poole's body and spacesuit.
In the novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, Poole's body is discovered after drifting in space for a millennium. Given Poole's exposure to vacuum (he was flash-frozen so his body was fully intact after 1,000 years), the advanced medical technology of the time is able to revive him and Poole is brought back to life. Poole must then contend with the trio of Monoliths that hold sway over our solar system, and what Bowman has become. He also marries a woman named Indra Wallace and has two children, Dawn and Martin.
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