A big release like that of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is lauded one day, the next a battery defect causing fires forces the South Korean company to recall the danger prone model. Millions of downloads on iTunes and PlayStore ensure a ravenous gadget appetite is satisfied. Visionary Steve Job’s brainstorm tech creation, Apple, consistently releases a new iteration of the iPhone or iPad - even the landmark iPod is still a player on the market - while Samsung, Google and Microsoft all compete for our dollars with their ever more powerful hardware and apps. “EV-9D9: How many languages do you speak?Ĭ-3PO: I am fluent in over six million forms of communication, and can readily.ĮV-9D9: Splendid! We have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him.Ĭ-3PO: Disintegrated?” - ‘Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi’ (1982)Īn ever sophisticated world of high tech changes so quickly it’s a wonder any of us can keep up, with or without the cyber guidance a digital assistant like Siri or Google can provide. Robby, The Robot - ‘Forbidden Planet’ (1956)
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With a dress designing robot, the movie can’t be all bad.“If you do not speak English I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.” He can make dresses decorated with diamonds, emeralds, and star sapphires. She replied, “You didn’t tell me Robby the Robot was a designer. I was surprised because she doesn’t care much for science fiction, so I asked her why she wanted to watch the movie. When she got home, she said we just had to rent the movie.
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Since then, the movie (based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” no less), and Robby have been credited with being the inspiration for two great television series “Star Trek” and “Lost in Space,” which also featured a life-size mechanical robot.Īfter The Wife left for work, I searched the computer and found a movie trailer about “Forbidden Planet” and sent it to her. Way back in 1956, the movie starring the mechanical wonder made its debut with ground-breaking special effects for the time. How anyone doesn’t know of the seven-foot-six, 300-pound robot star of “Forbidden Planet” is … well, unbelievable. She had never heard of him! At first I thought she was joking and started to laugh. The Wife asked me who Robby the Robot was. I barely breathe and my pictures come out all blurry.Īfter watching the news broadcast about Pluto and the New Horizon, I asked The Wife, “Wonder if they’ll see Robby the Robot out there?” That’s when IT happened. How the spaceship accomplished such a thing is truly amazing.
It seems like science-fiction that such a feat could even be performed: taking clear pictures while traveling 14 miles a second – not Col. Guess if you were that far away from the sun, you’d be blue too.” To quote Little One’s bedtime story, “Pluto is the furthest from the sun, cold and blue. Hurtling through space at over 14 miles a second, New Horizons took clear pictures revealing the planet Pluto to be blue with a giant white heart and snow-capped mountains around its equator. As I remember, he gets really blue in the face if you don’t. But to be safe, I’ll keep calling Pluto a planet just in case Col. Who am I to disobey a colonel? Besides, on his final exam I called it a moon and got it wrong. The tiny blue speck in the night sky is now referred to as a dwarf world by the scientific community, but not by me.Ĭolonel Baker, my tenth-grade science teacher at Briarwood High School Home of the Mighty Buccaneers, said it was a planet. Yes, I know, Pluto lost planetary status some years back because of its small size. And what of the second incident? It’s truly unbelievable, but since I was standing right next to The Wife when it happened, I have a witness.Īlthough it’s taken nine years, and traveled over 3 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft has finally reached the smallest planet in our solar system – Pluto. For those out there in reader land, the first will interest the science geek in all of you. Two amazing things happened at our house Tuesday morning, and oddly, both concerned space travel.
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