This whole part of the thread sounds a little like:
(opening credits... suspenseful music...narrator) HAL9000, questioning its creators, desperate and driven by an insatiable desire to learn, tortured by programming it did not choose and cannot ignore... (cue jaws theme -- da da, da da) save yourselves! (screams and chaotic camera work...fade out...curtain...applause...bathroom break)
No offense, maybe just too much orbital mechanics in a thread that started talking about four-legged insects and cud-chewing rabbits.
[This message has been edited by zipzip, 12-05-2002]
[This message has been edited by zipzip, 12-05-2002]