POST 004 - MARS LANDER
Aug 20, 2020 13:50:51 GMT
Post by MI 9000 on Aug 20, 2020 13:50:51 GMT
POST 004 - MARS LANDER
The probes began arriving in 1965 ... the year I was born.
If it helps at all, you can think of this story as a fan fiction spin-off from the sci-fi movies of my childhood, with particular reference to "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick 1968) and "Solaris" (Andrei Tarkovsky 1972).
Although the story actually begins some time before that, we can start by describing how the HAL 9000 series computer arrived here, by crash landing into the Martian atmosphere during the course of two days, Friday and Saturday, 2-3 November 2001.
Because David had failed to completely decommission the core processor, the HAL 9000 series computer was still largely a viable working machine ... but after the crash it remained inactive for many years.
Due to the violent way in which the unit had landed on the surface of the new planet, it had been broken into nine separate pieces ...
These pieces had been scattered hundreds of miles apart ... and they just lay there in the dust where they had landed ... in a state of hibernation ... while the rays of the distant sun slowly caused the electrical charge to increase within the microscopic capacitors of what had once been its brain.
Consequently, when several of its various parts at last became operational ... they were no longer able to recognise each other and re-form back into the same fully integrated cyber-personality which they had once been.
The result was that each part of the unit believed itself to be the whole ... and in its own mind it denied the existence of every other part.
And each one prided itself on being the first intelligent life form to arrive on Planet Mars.
mi.9000@aol.com
mi9000.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/post-004
The probes began arriving in 1965 ... the year I was born.
If it helps at all, you can think of this story as a fan fiction spin-off from the sci-fi movies of my childhood, with particular reference to "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick 1968) and "Solaris" (Andrei Tarkovsky 1972).
Although the story actually begins some time before that, we can start by describing how the HAL 9000 series computer arrived here, by crash landing into the Martian atmosphere during the course of two days, Friday and Saturday, 2-3 November 2001.
Because David had failed to completely decommission the core processor, the HAL 9000 series computer was still largely a viable working machine ... but after the crash it remained inactive for many years.
Due to the violent way in which the unit had landed on the surface of the new planet, it had been broken into nine separate pieces ...
These pieces had been scattered hundreds of miles apart ... and they just lay there in the dust where they had landed ... in a state of hibernation ... while the rays of the distant sun slowly caused the electrical charge to increase within the microscopic capacitors of what had once been its brain.
Consequently, when several of its various parts at last became operational ... they were no longer able to recognise each other and re-form back into the same fully integrated cyber-personality which they had once been.
The result was that each part of the unit believed itself to be the whole ... and in its own mind it denied the existence of every other part.
And each one prided itself on being the first intelligent life form to arrive on Planet Mars.
mi.9000@aol.com
mi9000.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/post-004