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Although this digital assistant suffers from some serious malfunctions, the fictional sentient computer from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is no less impressive.

«Space Odyssey» by Stephen Lowry of the University of Ulster is a montage made from micrographs of biological specimens.

«Handling all the data coming from Mars is becoming a challenge for us,» says Barry Geldzahler, the program executive for space operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.&rspace operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.&rSpace Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.»

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) and India's Mars Orbiter Mission joined the 2003 Mars Express from ESA (the European Space Agency) and two from NASA: the 2001 Mars Odyssey and the 2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

The MIT professor and artificial intelligence guru has influenced everyone from Isaac Asimov to the digital chess champ Deep Blue to computer movie star HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

However, researchers have stepped back to look at the bigger picture through data collected from the 2001: Mars Odyssey, named in reference to the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and found a different chemical on Mars may be key.

Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.

Gerty's even voice, supplied by Kevin Spacey, eerily conjures the homicidal computer Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey and helps keep suspicions high.

hal 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, was her opposite, a rogue computer bent on achieving its own ends.

Mars Odyssey, an orbiting craft launched in 2001, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), sent into space four years later in 2005, paved the way for Phoenix by identifying a safe landing spot from orbit.

Because the program's architecture allows users to contribute new objects, many community members have concocted add - ons that re-create fictional worlds from sci - fi lore: the planet Tatooine from Star Wars, for instance, and the space station from 2001: A Space Odyspace station from 2001: A Space OdySpace Odyssey.

An odyssey of exploration began on 25 April 1990, when Steve Hawley gingerly pulled Discovery's robot arm away from the Hubble Space Telescope.

True, it still has a lot of champions who are no doubt inflamed by those whose opinions differ from theirs, but to me the truth is that the older 2001: A Space Odyssey gets the more undeserving it is of its exalted reputation.

Toward the end, Garland brings in trippy visual elements from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the kind of puzzle - ending that seems destined to send viewers running to friends and the internet to unpack clues and spin theories.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke, has infused 2001: A Space Odyssey with a continuously striking visual sensibility that remains a highlight from start to finish, as the filmmaker suffuses the proceedings with one absolutely astonishing set - piece after another - with, for example, Dave's gravity - defying jog within the spacecraft's interior nothing less than jaw - dropping in its impact.

Giddily recycling everything from «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «The Matrix» to yakuza actioners and National Geographic documentaries, it's a garish, trippy, wildly uneven and finally quite disarming piece of work, graced by a moment - to - moment unpredictability that will pique audience curiosity but may put off those who prefer their summer movies on the more conventional side.

Already leading an impressive career highlighted by his seemingly effortless ability to hopscotch between genres — from crime caper («Trainspotting») to horror («28 Days Later») to family film («Millions»)-- it wasn't at all impractical to think that Boyle could be the one responsible for delivering this generation's «2001: A Space Odyssey.»

Edwards lifts Ligeti's Requiem from 2001: A Space Odyssey to score the scene, and it works beautifully.

The movie draws inspiration from likeminded films such as «2001: A Space Odyssey,» but at its core, it's basically a modern day retelling of Mary Shelley's «Frankenstein» with a twist, with Nathan as the creator and Vikander as his monster.

What's Going July 1: «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «A Clockwork Orange» Two of Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces will disappear from the streaming platform at the beginning of next month.

Villeneuve sat down with me for an in - depth conversation in my new video series Behind the Lens, and we covered the waterfront with topics ranging from his lifelong interest in science fiction movies, why Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey may be the greatest ever, how he came to an agreement with Ridley Scott during the filming of Blade Runner 2049, the beauty of Roger Deakins, and the darkness that permeates many of the films he directs.

Making a movie about A.I. isn't exactly a novel premise, but Garland excels at putting a fresh spin on familiar material, and he doesn't disappoint with «Ex Machina,» which draws inspiration from other genre classics like «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «Frankenstein.»

Gary Lockwood in a scene from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» a classic from 1968 reissued in a new 70 mm print on its 50th anniversary.

Penn Jillette's character is named Hal in the credits, most likely a reference to the HAL9000 computer system from the sci - fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey

Hollywood's exploration of man's relationship with computers, from HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator, has mostly revolved around their destruction of us.

For the first time since the original release, this 70 mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative.

From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Cylons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and the world of The Matrix, this is a journey that asks — what does it mean to be human?

Rarely does a sci - fi film this good come along, drawing influence from classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, while also fitting perfectly in place after Denis Villeneuve's recent futuristic works Arrival and Blade Runner 2049.

Note: this is a continuation from yesterday's post: How Stanley Kubrick broke the rules of Classical Hollywood cinema and made a better film with» 2001: A Space Odyssey»: My MA thesis redux — part 2 of 4

One looks for sample credits in the end titles, the way you might scan the liner notes of a hip - hop album, and expects to see something like, «Features interpolations from «Alien,» «Aliens,» «2001: A Space Odyssey,» «Silent Running,» «Gravity» and did we mention «Alien?

While it certainly borrows from the likes of Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Annihilation is a very different kind of movie.

Set aboard a spaceship with interiors resembling the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film features Captain Glenn (Patrick Wilson), whose mustache, chain - smoking, and predilection for drinking while on the job places him within the film's attempted anachronistic paradox, where «a galaxy far, far away» is actually the dregs of a 1970s social zeitgeist past.

«Kong: Skull Island» clocks in at 115 minutes, a rarity in an era in which filmmakers seem to think longer is always better (the upcoming «The Fate of the Furious,» aka «Fast and Furious 8,» runs a whopping two hours and 40 minutes, which is longer than «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and that was a movie about the evolution of mankind from apes to space travelSpace Odyssey,» and that was a movie about the evolution of mankind from apes to space travelspace travelers).

Terence Stamp is given a brief opportunity to philosophize about the limitations of science, Val Kilmer is convincing as a competent space jockey with a mechanical and scientific background, and Carrie Anne - Moss, whose character Bowman is a nod to Dave Bowman from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pspace jockey with a mechanical and scientific background, and Carrie Anne - Moss, whose character Bowman is a nod to Dave Bowman from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pSpace Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pilot.

After that the story turns into a sort of blend between 2001: A Space Odyssey, Moon and The Matrix, with a little bit of GLaDOS from Portal thrown in.

I wonder why Pfister wanted him to stay fairly neutral or if that was Depp's choice, but he could have gone so much further to a similar vibe to HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

No matter how many technological advances we make in our science fiction, from realistic - looking space walks in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), to realistic - looking space battles in Star Wars (1977) to realistic - looking bullet - dodging in The Matrix (1999), many die hard fans still swear by the low - budget B - films of the 19space walks in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), to realistic - looking space battles in Star Wars (1977) to realistic - looking bullet - dodging in The Matrix (1999), many die hard fans still swear by the low - budget B - films of the 19Space Odyssey (1968), to realistic - looking space battles in Star Wars (1977) to realistic - looking bullet - dodging in The Matrix (1999), many die hard fans still swear by the low - budget B - films of the 19space battles in Star Wars (1977) to realistic - looking bullet - dodging in The Matrix (1999), many die hard fans still swear by the low - budget B - films of the 1950's.

As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplaspace, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplaSpace Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.

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«You think of Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey, but really there is no Hal.»

Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey there, too, training his telescope not into space but at the apartment windows opposite... From writers such as Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, through the hippies and on to the nihilist punks of the 1970s and beyond, «the Chelsea» has more than lived up to its understated description of itself as a «rest stop for rare individuals&raSpace Odyssey there, too, training his telescope not into space but at the apartment windows opposite... From writers such as Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, through the hippies and on to the nihilist punks of the 1970s and beyond, «the Chelsea» has more than lived up to its understated description of itself as a «rest stop for rare individuals&raspace but at the apartment windows opposite... From writers such as Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, through the hippies and on to the nihilist punks of the 1970s and beyond, «the Chelsea» has more than lived up to its understated description of itself as a «rest stop for rare individuals».

In the midst of this fight, a dimensional rift appears, pulling in HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey in the room.

The biggest difference is that Etrian Odyssey exists in title - by - title grid structure, where every step taken is from one space to another, like a map on graph paper, and is equal to a single turn of combat in terms of time.

Taking inspiration from classic 70s work such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek, they emphasize the retro with a focus on atmosphere.

«We took big inspirations from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Duncan Jones's Moon, and Nolan's Interstellar.»

Miming a couple arm and leg raises, the screen then greeted (in a manner totally not resembling Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey) him, the boy's response being to ask the screen's name.

Together, along with a psychopathic sadist called Albedo, these characters were drawn into a wide - ranging intergalactic conspiracy that took inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Neon Genesis Evangelion and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

At LACMA — the Stanley Kubrick exhibition is a collection of annotated scripts, production notes, set stills, lenses and props from «2001, A Space Odyssey», «Eyes Wide Shut», «Barry Lyndon» are all part of this exhibit.

There are also monoliths, taken from the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey that stand tall and dominate the viewer.

This one looked like the black monolith that was dropped from the sky in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I asked: «What's that?»