1:55:03
"lt won 't be a stylish marriage
1:55:09
"l can 't afford a carriage
1:55:16
"But you'll look sweet
1:55:19
"Upon the seat
1:55:23
"of a bicycle made for two, "
1:55:29
Good day, gentlemen,
1:55:35
This is a prerecorded briefing...
1:55:38
...made prior to your departure...
1:55:42
...and which for security reasons
of the highest importance...
1:55:47
...has been known on board
during the mission...
1:55:51
...only by your HAL-9000 computer,
1:55:57
Now that you are in Jupiter's space...
1:56:00
...and the entire crew is revived...
1:56:03
...it can be told to you,
1:56:07
Eighteen months ago...
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...the first evidence
of intelligent life off the Earth...
1:56:15
... was discovered,
1:56:18
It was buried 40 feet
below the lunar surface...
1:56:22
...near the crater "Tyco, "
1:56:27
Except for a single very powerful...
1:56:30
...radio emission aimed at Jupiter...
1:56:36
...the four-million-year-old black monolith
has remained completely inert,
1:56:43
Its origin and purpose...