Can
Can noun - A metal container in the shape of a cylinder.
Pod
Pod noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.
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At the start of Halo 3: ODST, the player is being dropped from a ship in orbit in a drop pod and can only look around.
Source: Controllable Helplessness -
Even in the fiction pod controlled ships can take down dozens of non-pod controlled ships with ease.
Source: Video Game / EVE Online -
They then have HAL rotate the pod so HAL can watch them talking through the window, not realizing that HAL can read lips.
Source: Film / 2001: A Space Odyssey
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