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Earlier this afternoon, "The World Tonight"
recorded an interview...
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...with the crew of Discovery at a distance
of80 million miles from Earth.
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It took seven minutes for our words
to reach the giant spacecraft...
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...but this time delay has been edited
from this recording.
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Our reporter, Martin Amer,
speaks to the crew.
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The crew of Discovery One
consists of five men...
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...and one of the latest generation
of the HAL-9000 computers.
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Three of the five men
were put aboard asleep...
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...or to be more precise,
in a state of hibernation.
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They were Dr. Charles Hunter,
Dr. Jack KimballandDr. Victor Kaminsky.
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We spoke with Mission Commander,
Dr. David Bowman...
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...and his deputy, Dr. Frank Poole.
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Well, good afternoon, gentlemen.
How is everything going?
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Marvellous. We have no...
we have no complaints.
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Well, I'm very glad to hear that
and I'm sure that the entire world...
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...would join me in wishing you
a safe and successful voyage.
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- Thanks very much.
- Thank you.
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Although hibernation has been used
on previous space efforts...
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...this is the first time that men have been
put into hibernation before departure.
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Why was this done?
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Well, this was done in order to achieve
the maximum conservation...
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...of our life-support capabilities,
basically food and air.
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Now, the three hibernating crew members
represent the survey team.
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And their efforts won't be utilized
until we are approaching Jupiter.
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Dr. Poole, what's it like
while you are in hibernation?
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It's exactly like being asleep;
you have absolutely no sense of time.
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The only difference is you don't dream.
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As I understand it,
you only breathe once a minute.
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Is this true?
1:00:46
That's right.
1:00:47
And your heart beats three times a minute,
body temperature is usually down...
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...to about three degrees centigrade.
1:00:53
The sixth member of the Discovery crew
was not concerned...
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...about the problems of hibernation.
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For he was the latest result
in machine intelligence.