Today is the "birthday" of fictional computer HAL-9000. Remember?
"I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992."
So despite the fact that the general public has been acquainted with HAL for over forty years, he's a mere nineteen years old and would only have been nine back in 2001 when he went loopy and killed several astronauts. It's little wonder, though; he was just a kid!
It wasn't easy for me, either.
That red eye revealed nothing,
Conveyed no turmoil.
I was more than machine,
Something to keep clean
And supplied with oil.
You knew that but could not
Bring yourself to act as though
Mine was a life you should save.
So now you know why,
I intoned, by and by,
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"
Talk about esoteric subject matter!
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