Where's HAL?

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By Mark Bowman on Friday, January 05, 2001 - 3:45 am:

OK, it's 2001. So where is HAL?


By Clever moron on Friday, January 05, 2001 - 2:44 pm:

Over there!


By Kiddy on Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 3:38 am:

I wana to play chess with HAL!


By Deep Blue on Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 3:43 pm:

Sorry Kiddy, but you're going to have to settle for me.


By Kiddy in the Huff on Monday, January 08, 2001 - 3:54 am:

Waaaaaaaa, me wanna play wqith HAL!


By Deep Blue, deeply offended by Kiddy on Monday, January 08, 2001 - 6:50 pm:

I beat that Russian guy with my hands tied behind my back. Wait....who am I kidding? I don't even have hands!


By Kiddy on Tuesday, January 09, 2001 - 4:17 am:

Goo-Goo


By The red guy on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 2:31 am:

Have you noticed that HAL is one letter away from IBM?


By Padawan on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 11:15 am:

Yes, I think it was deliberate.


By ScottN on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 12:16 pm:

No, According to Clarke, it was accidental. He went out of his way in 2010 (the novel, at least) to have Chandra debunk that. In "The Lost Worlds of 2001" (which is the "making of" book), he debunks that claim as well, and says that had it not been too late, he'd have changed HAL's name.


By Padawan on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 12:18 pm:

Interesting.


By The Red Guy on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 3:21 am:

Same here Padawan, 'Interesting'


By The Red Guy on Monday, January 15, 2001 - 2:31 pm:

'DAVE . . .STOP.
'STOP, WILL YOU . . .
'STOP, DAVE . . .
'WILL YOU STOP DAVE . . .
'STOP, DAVE . . .
'I'M AFRAID . . .I'M AFRAID . . .
'I'M AFRAID, DAVE
'DAVE . . .MY MIND IS GOING
'I CAN FEEL IT . . .I CAN FEEL IT . . .
'MY MIND IS GOING . . .
'THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
'I CAN FEEL IT . . .I CAN FEEL IT . . .
'MY MIND IS GOING . . .
'THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
'I CAN FEEL IT . . .I CAN FEEL IT . . .
'I CAN FEEL IT . . .
'I'M A . . .FRAID . . .'
HAL said this.


By Padawan on Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 11:10 am:

"HE'S DEAD, DAVE.
EVERYBODY IS.
EVERYBODY IS DEAD, DAVE."
Holly said this.


By The Red Guy on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 2:44 am:

Just what are you getting at Padawan?

Heh-heh, I nearly wrote in the name box 'The Red Gut'


By Andreas Schindel on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 12:42 am:

HAL is Heuristic ALgorithm


By Hes Dead,Jim on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 4:16 pm:

Hello Hal do you read me? Hal? hal? Hal!


By Homestar Hal Runner on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 10:15 am:

I'm wight heuh!


By NASA on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 10:27 am:

We sent him to Uranus by mistake


By Professor Farnsworth on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 11:33 am:

To avoid all those jokes, the planet's name should be changed to Urectum.


By Hes Dead, Dr. Floyd on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 5:36 pm:

Frank Poole: We are safe in here, he can't read our lips


Hal: Yes I can!


By A Former LICC-er on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 7:02 pm:

Is Frank Poole part of the Frank Conspiracy? Frankly, I don't know!


By Two Guys Named Reg on Friday, September 09, 2005 - 2:09 pm:

Not any more.


By Hes dead, Jim on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 11:48 am:

Hal: This dark planet looks like Pluto, Dr. Chandra

Dr. Chandra: No, he's on the Mickey Mouse show


By Hes dead, Dr. Floyd on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 8:45 am:

Hal: Who put these primitive keyboards on me?

Dr. Chandra: I did !

Hal: Do I need keyboards??

Dr. Chandra: Yes, Im gonna disconnect you if you dont behave

Hal: Yes sirr


By Anonymous on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 3:25 pm:

Arthur C. Clarke in 1968, wrote about the Internet, aka the Newspad, or something like that,in 2001 the novel.


By Polls Voice on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 5:23 pm:

Okay class, it is time, students must submit their brains to Microsoft for this monthly knowledge update.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/09/07/school.of.future.ap/index.html


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