| identified the small probe as one of their own species and translated its pre-programmed message: to collect and store all information or data about the cosmos and return to the planet Earth for analysis by its creator - the scientists at N.A.S.A. In the United States of America. The machines of this unimaginable planet interpret the creator as some kind of deity and return the probe with all the accumulated knowledge of the machine planets' libraries back on its journey through the universe in search of its creator or god. Even in Blade Runner & 2001 : A Space In 2001 : A Space Odyssey, the H.A.L. 9000 |
computer becomes confused and neurotic; similar to the disorder of the replicants' in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the film Blade Runner, During a mission to the planet Jupiter to investigate a third giant monolith in the planet's orbit. As a result the computer murders everyone on board the spaceship Discovery, except astronaut David Bowman. He manages to reach Jupiter and rendezvous with the monolith. This artefact sweeps him into a force field or 'star gate' that hurls him on a journey through outer and inner space, finally transporting him to another part of the galaxy, where he is placed in a human menagerie. In a timeless state, his life passes through middle age to death and is then reborn an enhanced being, a 'starchild', to return to Earth prepared for the next leap forward of mankind's evolutionary destiny. In the climax of Blade Runner, the character Rick Deckard witnesses the death of the lead Nexus-6 replicant, Roy Batty; after a vicious conflict between the two characters, Deckard is rescued by the lead replicant on top of a multistory building. Deckard (voice over): |
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