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   Mack A. Damia to All   
   Re: HAL (from 2001: A Space Odyssey)   
   28 Nov 21 07:58:59   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:17:25 -0500, moviePig    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 11/28/2021 12:30 AM, h hrh wrote:   
   >> On Friday, November 26, 2021 at 1:31:35 AM UTC-5, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> On 2021-11-26 06:22:22 +0000, gggg gggg said:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Thursday, November 25, 2021 at 10:21:18 PM UTC-8, wrote:   
   >>>>> (Recent Youtube upload):   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Why Does Hal 9000 Malfunction?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> (Youtube upload):   
   >>>>   
   >>>> HAL 9000 (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY) Explained   
   >>> Nobody can ever explain it because it's a confused mess written and   
   >>> produced by idiots off their heads on all sorts of drugs. :-\   
   >> Agreed.  The first time I saw it, I was a kid.  At the end of the movie, an   
   adult reared his head and yelled 'refund'.  So true.  I watched it again as an   
   adult, and was not impressed.  It's crap.  I enjoy most of Kubrick's films but   
   this is not one    
   of them.   
   >   
   >So, your theory is that people who immensely enjoyed it really have no   
   >idea what they saw, and are merely praising the emperor's new clothes?   
      
   Suspension of disbelief and a good metaphorical imagination is   
   necessary.  Much is learned in early childhood.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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