#Hal 9000 eye sticker series

As for Dave and Frank? Well if they were gone, Hal wouldn't have to lie to them, would he? The impetus to lie was coming from Mission Control, so if the ship couldn't talk to Mission Control, so much the better. 35 antenna unit 'failure' was Hal trying to solve the problem and restore himself to normal functioning or something close to it, as the mission instructions didn't allow him to shut down or let himself go kaput, he had to keep running and complete the mission at all costs. Hal, being a computer, couldn't take a third option, he literally had no choice but to try and obey both sets of instructions, but logically he could not, so it just aggravated the underlying problem even more. On the one hand, his hardwired programming to be accurate and not make any mistakes, on the other, his orders to lie to Dave and Frank. He was trapped between a rock and a hard place.

Mobius Loop, but in practical terms Hal became a paranoid schizophrenic. It's a direct violation of his primary programming, the accurate processing of information, and in being made to lie, it made him unstable. Chandra, Hal's Creator, he was told to lie to Dave and Frank by people who find it very easy to lie (the govt.), but Hal literally didn't know how to. Dave and Frank's job was the get the Discovery to Jupiter, then they would swap places with the three men in hibernation who did know the real reason and would be studying the monolith while Dave and Frank would be put into hibernation while this was going on, then swap places with the three men again and pilot the Discovery back to Earth once the study was over with, blissfully unware of the monolith.ДЄnyway, getting back to Hal, if I might paraphrase Dr. and Dave and Frank didn't have the clearance to know. The problem stems from the fact that for the Discovery Mission, Hal was programmed with instructions that conflicted with this primary programming, namely to keep the real reason for the mission, studying the monolith at Jupiter, secret from Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, as the monoliths were classified by the U.S.

#Hal 9000 eye sticker series

The 9000 series computers' primary programming, which was hard-wired into them and cannot be changed, is the accurate processing of information, without distortion or mistakes. The monolith had nothing to do with the Hal 9000 trying to kill the crew, he really was malfunctioning, but it wasn't really Hal's fault.