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...certain lyric mysticism−out of its earthbound nursery toward a higher being. Clarke's best-known work is his collaboration with Director Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001, which viewers left not only humming bits of Richard Strauss but full of wry speculations. Did HAL, the onboard computer, rebel because of homosexual jealousy, or was he some kind of reverse Luddite who feared that the mission back to first causes would leave him metaphysically unemployed...
...passenger, the doors burst open and Israeli troops boarded. They ordered the passengers to put their hands over their heads and exit one at a time, men first, and proceed to a small hall for questioning. When the grilling was over and the Israelis were satisfied no commandos were onboard, refreshments were passed around. "Every one of them spoke Arabic," marveled one woman. "It was amazing." Apparently she had never heard of Oriental Jews...
...instance, that the constellation's brightest star, Arcturus, was slightly off to the side in roughly the place it occupied 13,000 years ago. For this too Lunan had a theory: that was the time when the probe arrived in the earth's vicinity and instructed its onboard equipment to scan the skies and draw up the star map. Lunan even speculates about the intelligent race that dispatched the probe: because their sun has now expanded into a hot ball of fire called an orange giant, they were not merely seeking contact with other creatures, but were actively...
...equipment will be added not on the ground but in the plane. Built around small onboard computers and other complex electronic gear, it will give the pilot instant access to information that until now has been relayed from the ground or has required time-consuming computations in the cockpit. R-Nav will provide continuous bearings pointing toward any predetermined destination; it will supply the plane's exact position throughout the trip and immediate corrections whenever the plane veers off course. If the pilot should make a mistake in punching out his route on the keyboard...
...giant duster will probably obscure much of the surface for weeks to come. Faced with the growing possibility that the Martian skies will not clear up completely during Mariner's planned three-month photography mission, JPL controllers fed a new temporary "shooting script" into the spacecraft's onboard computer, thus enabling Mariner's twin TV cameras to look for holes in the cloud cover...