As an adult, when Oumouamoua came through, Rama was my first thought.

Did the RV have a front-mounted spare tyre? Those RVs have always reminded me of the Discovery.

The video never says that it did.

That was the intent. The first weapon became the last.

Thank you for saving me the trouble of pointing out that error.

Exactly.

As a big fan of 2001 and 'hard' SF, I actually hated Star Wars when I first saw It in 1977. Silly droids, screaming spaceships, this wasn't serious SF! Eventually I relaxed, realized It WAS'T really SF, more of a fantasy tale in SF guise, and meant for younger audiences. So I was ok with the rest of the saga. I saw Silent Running in 1975, was extactic. Couldn't sleep that night.

@@luiznogueira1579 You know ditto on all counts. I feel like the best hard Science film "The Martian" in recent years was also the most humble sticking with Newtonian Mechanics Horticulture and clever successful dury rigging (with masking tape even) and readaptation of technology. In that same vane Apollo 13 made me remember what a spectacular successful rescue mission that moment represented. Now in a completely opposite direction was Interstellar! In spite of my personal problems with the score (I'm a composer) and the improbable idea that the NASA launch Complex was actually a Space Ship just waiting for the problem of Anti-Gravity to be solved🤷. I love the brilliant inclusion of Steven Hawking's old pal and partner in crime Kip Thorn! Back in the Look late 70s I used to skip class to go to the library to read Kip Thorn's (very popular in physics circles) Scientific American articles about Black Holes! And yet at the end of the Day that supremely ambitious film just can't quite hold a Candle to 2001 A Space Odyssey. But Kip's genius allowed for that pretty right on cinematic depiction of the implications of a higher dimensional spacetime continuum made available inside the Event Horizon of Super Black Hole Gargantua 🤣🦧🫨😂 I mean it's still pretty damn brilliant depiction by Kip Thorne who is a legendary theoretical physicist and the real star of that film. But in my mind through the Star Gate from 2001 depicts the higher dimensional multiverse from Ed Witten's M-Theory POV just by accident really. Actually depicting the bulk in 11 dimensional hyperspace (but that's how I see it)

@@paxwallace8324 I really enjoyed The Martian, definitely up there with the best SF movies of all time. The only reason I didn't like It more was because the book was better; I felt the trek to the other base was rushed compared to the book, but, obviouly, different media. BTW, almost finished Weir's new book, Project Hail Mary. Thoroughly enjoying It! Would make a pretty good movie, imo. I had some issues with Interstellar, but the science aspect was impeccable. Kudos to Kip Thorne.

I love that film - the battle with the monster scared the wits out of me when I first saw it. Oddly enough, I have been considering recreating the space cruiser from that film. A future project, methinks?

1956

Shakespeare in space.

And it also influenced the creation of Star Trek

Forbidden Planet is an awesome movie

And it was changed to Jupiter for the film because the special effects folks couldn't manage to get the rings look right despite multiple attempts. Unfortunately the book was already out to printing.

@@garymartin6987 Tho SFX man Douglas Trumbull took everything he learned trying to put Saturn on the screen for Stanley to put Saturn on the screen in "Silent Running." Did OK, from what I remember. DVD's around here somewhere ...

During 'the trip', my wife asked if I could fast forward to the next scene. I said "this is fast forwarded" (PS2 limit was 2x speed on FF).

​@garymartin6987 Funnily enough, when Pioneer 11 arrived at Saturn, it turned out that the "wrong" rings have been right all along

Only thieves use tools to get through a door. The DISCOVERY isn't a tool. It's a KEY....a skeleton key that opens that door-shaped Monolith. It's a door to the answer to our greatest existential question: Is there anybody else out there?

Thank you. I am not happy with the narration - I was aiming for sombre, in keeping with the film and the video's 'music', but failed miserably. There is also a very annoying typo. But I am pleased with the visuals. The sunrise over the African monolith worked far better than I thought it would!

Yes, I know! I saw a photograph once of someone standing next to the command model and was amazed. It's a great pity Kubrick had the models destroyed.

Discovery was designed to be functional, not beautiful. The nuclear section must be located well away from the crew section for safety's sake. This is obvious for a fictional spacecraft as Discovery One is and will be for real future spacecraft for manned missions to Mars in coming decades. BTW I would not be surprised to see that the first manned space craft for a manned mars mission will look like the fictional Discovery One. It is a logical, realistic design.

I hope to make a cutaway video of the Discovery's command module. I haven't succeeded yet as the interior sets don't fit the exterior (and the centrifuge is really difficult - all those awkward angles).

Just aft of the bridge. You can see the door that leads to the spinning access corridor behind the acceleration couches. As for the sets not quite fitting into the command sphere, I tend to agree. But, what the Hell, Discovery's the most beautiful spaceship ever, imo.

He doesn’t care. It’s all “nukular” to him.

HAL is short for (and this is in the book) Heuristic ALgorithmic computer, the IBM thing is purely coincidence.

@@richeels68 Yeah, you're right. I did some research and apparently Clarke and Kubrik denied it for years ... yet I'm certain when I was a kid back in the 70's I actually read somewhere Clarke admitting that it was intentional. I dunno, maybe it was a flawed heuristic algorithm in my head.

Yeah, they _denied_ it for years.

I never thought the Discovery's design resembled: 'a human skull trailing a spinal column' before. And I wish I never had...😬

@@charlestaylor253 There was one movie reviewer who described Discovery as "an implacable sperm." You find what you look for, I guess.

A ship generally similar in design was described by Arthur C. Clarke in his book "The Sands of Mars" years before 2001: A Space Odyssey.

You don't want it to refuse to open the pod-bay doors.

The voice operated interface on my mother's Toyota is a bit screwy. I was messing around with it and said "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" and it opened the rear hatch.

I have one - I printed a decal of HAL to stick on it.

I just asked Siri to open the pod bay doors please, her reply was ‘Can’t you just slide it under the door?’

No. Not only more realistic, but it gives a better sense of the vast void they are in, and how isolated they are from our natural habitat.

...We can have Michael Winslow do the sound effects.

Probably should make allowances for the narrator's accent for that one. "Noo-kyoo-lur" rates a slap, though.

That sucker is electrical (Cavradyne Plasma Propulsion Engines) but it requires nuclear reactor to produce so much power!