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Frank Poole is a Fictional Character from Arthur C. Clarke 's '' Space Odyssey '' series. He and David Bowman were the principal crewmembers aboard the space vessel '' Discovery One ''. Poole is an astronaut murdered by the computer .'' The computer effected the murder by remote control, using Poole's EVA pod to sever the air tube of his spacesuit. Poole was in the process of replacing the AE-35 electronic unit that HAL had mistakenly predicted would fail. That mistaken failure prediction was the first indication that HAL was capable of error, leading Poole and Dave Bowman (the other astronaut) to consider disconnecting HAL. In an act resembling the human response of survival, HAL killed Frank Poole and tried to do the same to Bowman after his attempt to rescue the doomed Poole. The character of Frank Poole was played in the film by Gary Lockwood . Poole played a Chess Game against HAL in the movie. In the novel '''' Poole's body is discovered after drifting in space for a millennium. Given Poole's exposure to vacuum (he was flash-frozen so his body was fully intact after 1,000 years), the advanced medical technology of the time is able to revive him and Poole is brought back to life. Poole must then contend with the trio of Monoliths that hold sway over our solar system, and what Dave Bowman has become. He also marries a woman named Indra Wallace and has two children, Dawn and Martin. |
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