Re: Life imitates Art -- a Friday post

["Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

I was also struck by the recognition of A.C. Clarke's
prescience in 2001:

FATHER( making birthday phone call to daughter):  And what
do you want for your birthday, darling?

DAUGHTER:  A Bushbaby!

Party on.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Cohen" <familyforever -at- mindspring -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Life imitates Art -- a Friday post


>
> Talk about coincidence: just a few hours ago I was
pondering shutting Hal
> down after I figured out how to open the pod bays doors
without wearing a
> helmet...
>
> Too much coffee, too much work, but still enough time for
Hal.
>
> oh, and don't forget the Monolith.
>
> jancohen
> whistling "Daisy" in the background
>
> At 12:26 PM 4/23/2004, Goldstein, Dan wrote:
>
> >[NASA announced Thursday that the second of the
International Space
> >Station's four stabilizing gyroscopes failed on Wednesday
night, but neither
> >the station nor the crew were in immediate danger. The
malfunction was
> >caused by a power failure, forcing controllers to rely on
the two remaining
> >gyroscopes to keep the structure's position in orbit...]
> >
> >POOLE: Good morning.
> >BOWMAN: Good morning. How's it going?
> >POOLE: Are you reasonably awake?
> >BOWMAN: Oh, I'm fine, I'm wide awake. What's up?
> >POOLE: Well... Hal's reported the AO-unit about to fail
again.
> >BOWMAN: You're kidding.
> >POOLE: No.
> >BOWMAN: (softly) What the h--- is going on?
> >POOLE: I don't know. Hal said he thought it might be the
assembly procedure.
> >BOWMAN: Two units in four days. How many spares do we
have?
> >POOLE: Two more...
>



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