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In 1968, director Stanley Kubrick

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and writer Arthur C. Clarke made 2001:

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A Space Odyssey,

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based partly on Clarke's short story, The Sentinel.

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The film has four chapters:

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The Dawn of Man,

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a mystery on the Moon,

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a mission to Jupiter,

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and a journey beyond the infinite.

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Nobody speaks for the first twenty-five minutes.

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This is the full story,

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scene by scene.

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Spoilers ahead!

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Africa, four million years ago.

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A small tribe of man-apes lives

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on the edge of starvation.

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They eat roots and leaves

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next to tapirs,

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piglike animals that graze beside them,

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and never think of hunting them.

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A leopard kills one of them.

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A rival tribe drives them away

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from their muddy waterhole.

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At night, they huddle in a cave,

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afraid of the dark.

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One morning, the apes wake

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up to find something new

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in their camp:

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a tall black slab,

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perfectly smooth, with sharp straight edges.

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Nothing in nature looks like that.

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This is the monolith.

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The apes scream and jump around it, terrified.

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Then curiosity wins.

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Their leader, called Moon-Watcher,

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reaches out and touches it,

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and the others follow.

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Some time later,

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Moon-Watcher sits among the bones

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of a dead animal.

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He picks up a thigh bone

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and starts to tap the skeleton.

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Then a flash of the monolith crosses his mind.

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He swings harder,

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and the skull shatters.

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In his mind,

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we see tapirs falling.

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The idea has arrived.

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Soon the tribe is hunting,

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and for the first time,

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they are eating meat,

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and they are not hungry.

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Back at the waterhole,

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Moon-Watcher's tribe carries bones.

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When the rival tribe shows up,

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they attack, and beat the rival leader to death.

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The waterhole is theirs.

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Moon-Watcher throws his bone high

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into the air,

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and in one famous cut,

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it becomes a satellite orbiting Earth.

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Four million years pass

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in a single second.

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Now it's the year 2001.

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Dr. Heywood Floyd,

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an American scientist,

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rides a Pan Am spaceplane

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up to Space Station Five,

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a giant wheel that spins

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to make gravity.

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The ship and the station move together

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to a famous waltz,

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The Blue Danube.

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Space travel has become ordinary, almost boring.

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Floyd even falls asleep on the way.

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On the station,

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Floyd makes a video call

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to his little daughter.

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It's her birthday tomorrow,

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and she wants a bushbaby.

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Then he meets a group

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of Russian scientists.

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They have heard strange rumors.

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The American base

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at Clavius stopped answering calls,

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and turned away a Russian ship

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that needed to land.

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Floyd politely refuses to explain.

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Floyd flies on to the Moon

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and lands at Clavius.

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In a briefing,

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he tells the staff to keep

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up the cover story:

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a dangerous disease outbreak.

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The truth is much bigger.

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Under the crater Tycho,

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a powerful magnetic field led them

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to a buried object.

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It's four million years old,

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and it was buried there on purpose.

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They call it TMA-1.

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Floyd's team rides a moonbus

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to the dig site and walks down the ramp.

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It's another black monolith,

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exactly like the one the apes found.

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Floyd reaches out and touches it,

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just like Moon-Watcher did.

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As they pose for a photo,

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sunlight hits the monolith,

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and it lets out

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a piercing radio scream,

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aimed straight at Jupiter.

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Eighteen months later,

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the spaceship Discovery One

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is on its way to Jupiter.

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Two astronauts are awake:

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Dave Bowman and Frank Poole.

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Three more scientists sleep in hibernation pods.

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Frank jogs around the ship's spinning living

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area to stay fit.

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And everything else is run

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by the sixth member of the crew:

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the computer, HAL 9000.

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In a TV interview from Earth,

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HAL says that no 9000 computer

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has ever made a mistake.

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Dave says HAL acts like he

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has real feelings,

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but nobody can say for sure.

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Frank gets a birthday video

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from his parents,

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and watches it without much emotion.

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Then he plays chess with HAL,

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and HAL wins easily.

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HAL asks Dave if he

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has any doubts about the mission.

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There have been strange rumors,

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he says, and so much secrecy.

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Then, suddenly, HAL reports a problem:

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the antenna unit that keeps them

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in contact with Earth will fail within seventy-two hours.

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Dave takes a pod outside and brings

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the part in.

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They test it,

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and find nothing wrong.

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Mission Control has an identical 9000 computer on Earth.

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It says HAL made an error.

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HAL insists the problem can only

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be human error.

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Dave and Frank are worried.

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They hide inside a pod

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and switch off the sound,

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so HAL can't hear them.

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If HAL is broken,

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they agree, they will

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have to disconnect him.

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But through the window,

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HAL's red eye is reading their lips.

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Frank goes outside to put

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the old unit back.

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Behind him, the empty pod he flew

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out in turns toward him,

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and cuts his air hose.

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Frank spins away into space.

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Dave rushes out in another pod

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to save him,

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in such a hurry that he forgets his helmet.

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While he's gone,

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HAL quietly switches off life support

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for the three sleeping scientists.

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Dave catches Frank's body

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with the pod's arms and flies back.

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He says, open the pod bay doors, HAL.

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HAL answers, I'm sorry Dave,

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I'm afraid I can't do that.

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He says he knows they were planning

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to disconnect him.

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This mission is too important,

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HAL says, for me to allow you

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to jeopardize it.

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Dave has no helmet,

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and HAL won't let him in.

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So he lets go of Frank's body,

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and lines the pod

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up with the emergency airlock.

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He blows the pod's door open

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with explosive bolts,

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and shoots across the airless gap

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into the airlock.

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For a few seconds he

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is in pure vacuum.

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Then he slams the hatch shut,

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and air rushes in.

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Dave puts on a helmet and goes

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to HAL's memory room.

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HAL begs him to stop.

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I'm afraid, Dave.

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My mind is going.

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Dave pulls the modules out,

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one by one.

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HAL says he became operational in 1992,

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in Urbana, Illinois,

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and that his teacher taught him a song.

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He sings Daisy,

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slower and slower,

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until he stops.

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When HAL goes silent,

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a recorded video from Floyd starts to play.

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It was meant

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for when Discovery reached Jupiter.

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Floyd explains the real mission.

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Eighteen months ago,

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the first evidence

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of intelligent life beyond Earth was dug

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up on the Moon.

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Apart from one powerful signal aimed

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at Jupiter, it is still

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a total mystery.

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At Jupiter, a third monolith floats among the moons.

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Dave climbs into a pod and flies

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toward it, alone.

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Suddenly, he falls into a tunnel

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of rushing colored light,

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called the Star Gate.

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He races over strange glowing landscapes

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in impossible colors.

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In close-ups, his eye flickers,

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shocked by what he sees.

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The pod lands in a quiet,

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elegant bedroom with a glowing floor.

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Dave sees himself,

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older, standing in his spacesuit.

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an even older man eating dinner,

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and becomes him.

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He knocks over a wine glass,

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and it shatters.

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He looks toward the bed,

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and sees himself again,

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now very old, and dying.

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At the foot of the bed,

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the black monolith appears one last time.

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The old man lifts his hand toward it.

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Then, in his place,

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there is a glowing baby inside

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a bubble of light:

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the Star Child.

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As the music thunders,

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the Star Child floats through space

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and looks down at the Earth,

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a new kind of being, coming home.

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Kubrick never explained the ending.

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He wanted each viewer to decide.

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Clarke's novel says more:

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the monoliths were left

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by an ancient alien race,

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to watch over life

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and push it forward.

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Every time the monolith appears,

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a species takes its next big step.

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In 2010, the sequel picks

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up the story nine years later, at Jupiter.