2001: A Space Odyssey - 2001: A Space Odyssey A movie poster from the original release of 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is an immensely popular and influential science fiction film and book; the film directed by Stanley Kubrick and both the book and film jointly written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The story is based on a number of short stories by Clark, most notably The Sentinel (1951). They agreed that the movie would be presented as by Kubrick, and that the book would be presented as by Clarke. For an elaboration of their collaborative work on this project, see The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, Signet., 1972. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. In the background to the story, only hinted at in the movie version, an.
January 2001 - January 2001 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: Monday, January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattle's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Saturday, January 6 - The United States Congress, presided over by Vice President Al Gore as President of the Senate, certifies George W. Bush's Electoral College victory and thus as the winner of 2000 presidential election. January 15 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online (Wikipedia Day). January 20 - George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States after prevailing over Al.
2010: Odyssey Two - 2010: Odyssey Two 2010: Odyssey Two, is a book by Arthur C. Clarke and the basis for a motion picture by Peter Hyams titled 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The book is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Warning: Spoilers follow. For both the book and the movie, the story is set nine years after the Discovery mission to Jupiter failed. Note that the original 2001: A Space Odyssey featured the journey to Saturn instead. A joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov arrives to essentially discover what went wrong with the disappearance of Bowman into the "stargate", or TMA-2, and to unravel the mysteries behind the monolith in orbit around the planet on the satellite Iapetus..
Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes - Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes 1957 - Earth - Success - Sputnik 1 is launched, the first Earth orbiting satellite 1957 - Earth - Partial success - Sputnik 2 is launched, the first Earth orbiting satellite with an animal (Laika) 1958 - Moon - Failure - Pioneer 0 orbiter 1958 - Moon - Failure - Pioneer 1 orbiter 1958 - Moon - Failure - Pioneer 3 flyby 1959 - Sun - Pioneer 5 solar monitor 1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 1 flyby launched, it discovered solar wind 1959 - Moon - Pioneer 4 flyby 1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 2 lander launched, it was the first spacecraft to impact onto he surface of the moon 1959.
Space: 1999 - Space: 1999 Space: 1999 (ITC Entertainment, 1974 - 1977) was a science fiction television show produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, famous for Thunderbirds and U.F.O. The first attempt since the demise of Star Trek at doing a large-scale science fiction weekly series, the show drew a great deal of visual inspiration from the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The show's special effects director Brian Johnson had in fact previously worked on both Thunderbirds (as Brian Johncock) and 2001. The series premiered in 1974. There were two seasons of 24 episodes each made by Gerry Anderson for ITC Entertainment. The first season was co-produced by the Italian state broadcaster, RAI. In Britain the series was originally seen on ITV stations but never simulcast nationally..
Kalpana Chawla - (July 1, 1961 - February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpana Chawla Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Life 2 Education 3 NASA Career 4 Personal Characteristics 5 Memoria 6 See also 7 External Links Early Life Chawla was born in Karnal, Haryana, India. Her interest in flight was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, India's first pilot. Education Chawla studied aeronautical engineering at the Punjab Engineering College in Punjab, India in 1982 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. Thereafter she moved to the United States to obtain a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas (1984). Dr. Chawla earned a doctorate in aerospace.
Keir Dullea - remembered for his role as the astronaut Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was raised in the Greenwich Village section of New York when his parents took over a bookstore. His film debut came in 1961 in The Hoodlum Priest, when he placed a juvenile delinquent. He playedan emotionally disturbed youths in a number of films, including David and Lisa (1962) and Bunny Lake is Missing (1965). He has not equalled the film success of 2001, not even when he returned to the role in the sequel 2010 (1984). Dullea has had a long and successful career on stage, in New York City and in regional theaters..
January 12 - Nazis. 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt and later proclaim a republic. 1966 - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. 1966 - Batman debuts on ABC. 1969 - Super Bowl III: New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, 16-7. 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. 1971 - All in the Family debuts on CBS. 1971 - "Harrisburg Six": The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, DC. 1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization. 1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with.
Jack Kirby - Thinker and his Awesome Android, the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes, the Inhumans, Wakanda, the Black Panther, the Blue Area of the Moon, Kang the Conqueror, the alien Skrulls, Daredevil, the Impossible Man, the Molecule Man, Paste-Pot-Pete, the hidden city of Attilan, Asgard, Hel, and the Negative Zone among many others. After a falling out with Stan Lee, Kirby returned to DC in the early 1970s where he produced a series of titles under the blanket sobriquet The Fourth World. The titles he produced included The New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People along with such other unique books such as OMAC, Kamandi, The Demon, and a new incarnation of the Sandman (this title together with former partner Joe Simon for one last time). He later returned to Marvel Comics.
Industrial Light and Magic - that had never been seen on film before. He aproached Doug Trumbull, famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey. He declined, but suggested his assistant John Dykstra. John Dykstra brought together a small team of college students, artists and engineers who became the Special Visual Effects department on Star Wars. When making The Empire Strikes Back George Lucas reformed most of the team into Industrial Light and Magic. They have since gone on to produce a special effect for large number of films including some of the most famous effects sequences in film. They are responsible for Ghostbusters' Slimer, Jurassic Park's dinosaurs and the other Star Wars films. By 2002 ILM had received 14 Best Visual Effects Oscars and 16 additional nominations. It had also received 21 technical Oscars..
H. P. Lovecraft - Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestors in America back to their arrival in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. When Lovecraft was three his father was said to have suffered a nervous breakdown in a hotel room in Chicago and was brought back to Butler Hospital, where he remained for five years. The story of mental collapse was merely a cover, however, to save the family from embarrassment — Lovecraft's father was admitted because syphilis was killing him. Lovecraft was raised by his mother, two aunts, and his doting grandfather, Whipple Van Buren Phillips. Lovecraft was something of a prodigy and was reciting poetry at age two and was writing by six. His grandfather encouraged his reading, providing him with classics such as 1,001 Arabian Nights, Bulfinch's Age of.
H. Beam Piper - committed suicide on November 9, 1964. His output was eventually purchased by Ace Science Fiction and reprinted in a set of paperbacks in the early 1980s. Many of these have since gone out of print, though his two best-known arcs were again reprinted by Ace in 1998 and 2001. Late in his career, Piper corresponded with a young Jerry Pournelle. He was also a collector of guns, and wrote one mystery, Murder in the Gunroom. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Themes and Hallmarks 2 Terro-Human Future History 3 Paratime 4 Bibliography 4.1 Novels 4.2 Short Stories 4.3 Collections 5 Related Books Themes and Hallmarks Piper's stories fall into two camps: Stark space opera, such as Space Viking, or stories of cultural conflict or misunderstanding, such as Little Fuzzy or the Paratime.
Hard science fiction - of publication. Interestingly, some hard science fiction stories are set in an alternate universe where different physical laws apply; however, in such cases the author makes use of current physics to design a universe that is at least potentially realistic. Hard science fiction is largely a literary genre, as the complexities of physics rarely translate well to the screen. One of the notable exceptions is 2001: A Space Odyssey, however the movie still leaves out much of the examination of the physics, computer science, and other scientific analyses present in the novel version. Well known authors often said to be practitioners of hard SF, include Poul Anderson Isaac Asimov Iain M. Banks Stephen Baxter Greg Bear Gregory Benford David Brin Arthur C. Clarke Hal Clement Greg Egan Robert Forward Robert Heinlein.
HAL 9000 - 9000 is a fictional character in the novel and film 2001 A Space Odyssey. He is the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery: an artificial intelligence. HAL is mostly seen only as his television camera "eyes" that are an omnipresent feature of the Discovery. The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by the actor Douglas Rain. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers In the film, HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, and natural language understanding but also lip reading. After HAL manufactures an onboard crisis, astronaut David Bowman is forced to shut HAL 9000's higher cognitive functions down, an experience equivalent to death for HAL. HAL's central core is depicted as a room full of brightly lit computer modules mounted in arrays from which they can be.
HAL/S - computer language, best known for its use in the Space Shuttle. It was written by Intermetrics in the 1970s for NASA. HAL/S is written in a dialect of PL/I known as XPL The three key factors in writing the language were reliability, efficiency, and machine-independence. The language is designed to allow tasks such as performing aerospace related vector/matrix arithmetic to be accomplished in a way that is easily understandable to people who have studied the subject. HAL/S is written without functions (such as GOTO in BASIC) that are known to be the cause of many errors. There are no abreviations for keywords, and keywords are all reserved so that they cannot also be used as variables. Considerations such as this are designed to reduce the chances of errors occurring, and also.
HAL - HAL HAL 9000 was the fictional computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey HAL/S is the computer language used to program the space Shuttle's computers HAL is the hardware abstraction layer used in Windows NT and in Linux to encapsulate hardware-dependent details from the rest of the operating system. See also: HDL (hardware description language). This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the appropriate page..
Hollywood Animation: The TV Era - cartoons became more dependent on formulas and violence. The 1950s saw the introduction of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Herman and Katnip, while even the Popeye the Sailor series lost much of its creativity and originality. The Paramount cartoons sank to the level of theater time-fillers, and by the time the 1960s began they were largely forgettable. The sister industry to animation, stop motion, reached the height of its popularity during the 1950s. The exploding popularity of science fiction films lead to an exponential development in the field of special effects, and animator George Pal became the producer of several popular special-effects laden films. Meanwhile, Ray Harryhausen's work on such films as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms drew in large.
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - 1962: The Twilight Zone 1965: Dr. Strangelove 1967: "The Menagerie," Star Trek 1968: "City on the Edge of Forever," Star Trek 1969: 2001: A Space Odyssey 1970: News coverage of Apollo 11 1971: no award 1972: A Clockwork Orange 1973: Slaughterhouse-Five 1974: Sleepers 1975: Young Frankenstein 1976: A Boy and His Dog 1977: no award 1978: Star Wars 1979: Superman 1980: Alien The Black Hole The Muppet Movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture Time After Time 1981: The Empire Strikes Back Cosmos Flash Gordon The Lathe of Heaven The Martian Chronicles 1982: Raiders of the Lost Ark Dragonslayer Excalibur Outland Time Bandits 1983: Blade Runner Dark Crystal E.T Road Warrior Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1984: Return of the Jedi Brainstorm The Right Stuff Something Wicked This Way Comes.
György Ligeti - in classical music circles, but among the general public, he is probably best known for the various pieces which feature prominently in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Biography Ligeti was born in Discöszentmáton (now Tirnaveni) in Transylvania. He received his musical training in the Cluj-Napoca Conservatory initially and later in Budapest, but his education was interrupted in 1943 when, as a Jew, he was forced by the Nazi Party to do manual work. At the same time his parents, brother, and other relatives were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp; only his mother survived. Ligeti returned to his studies after the war, graduating in 1949. He went on to do ethnomusicological work on Romanian folk music, but after a year returned to his old school in Budapest, this.
Failed Predictions - are often more about the present in which they are written than the future in which they are supposedly set. Here, nevertheless, are some notable fictional visions of the-future-that-never-was: ;1984 ;.:Winston Smith, a secretly rebellious file clerk in the Ministry of Truth, is arrested and tortured by Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell) ;1997 ;August 29:Human civilization is destroyed by Skynet (The Terminator; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the first sequel released after 1997, claimed that the advent of Skynet had been delayed, but not prevented, by the events of the first two movies) ;November 5:The first recorded appearance of the mysterious terrorist known as "Codename V" in Westminster, London. During the next year he launches a series of elaborate attacks against the fascist regime (which had ruled England.
