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  1. 04-01-2011, 01:16 PM #1
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    Woo-hoo! I'm Number 13!

    In the French-language version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL's name is given as "CARL", for Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison ("Analytic Brain for Research and Communication"). The camera plates, however, still read "HAL 9000".

    HAL was declared the 13th greatest film villain of all time in the American Film Institutes's 100 Years, 100 Heroes and Villains list.
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    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Down the hatch!
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    I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel
    it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel
    it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    and for extra bonus points...why was it called HAL
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    Quote Originally Posted by w3bny View Post
    and for extra bonus points...why was it called HAL
    "Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. In 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: "utter nonsense! [...] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic."
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    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post


    Down the hatch!
    I will open the pod bay door for that, Dave...
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    Hey man, Dave's not here.
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