Things I Learned From THE BLACK HOLE...
- The largest Black Hole VINCENT has ever encountered has a mouth less than a mile wide (as seen when the probe ship enters).
- Meteors can be perfectly spherical.
- The concept of robots being programmed with emotions is ridiculous to space crew members with PhD's, even though they've spent many months in a confined ship with one capable of arrogance, empathy, uncertainty, fear, and sadness.
- In the future, robots can be programmed with telepathy.
- Space technology will stagnate to the point that 20-year old robots and spaceship spare parts will be equally competent and compatible with their contemporary equivalents.
- A massive spaceship disappearing in deep space 20 years prior will feel like such ancient history that it will require exposition from people who encounter it to remind them of what it is.
- Adding the word "please" to the beginning of a statement makes it a question.
- Even without wills of their own, programmed cyborgs can escape their duties periodically to perform funerals.
- Calling cyborgs "Fools" does not spur them to get up and assist you.
- Intelligent robots require more specific direction on how to lift a giant screen up off the ground than "help me".
- Women respond negatively to requests to protect you from a robot who has recently killed their friend.
- On massive spaceships, only the arboretum room is pressurized enough to cause decompression and temperature loss if opened to the vacuum of space.
- Robots are more sensitive to cold than humans.
- Giant spaceships in the future with sophisticated security systems with several cameras will not have any installed inside the hospital, allowing undetected shootouts to occur within such rooms regularly.
- Turning a human into a cyborg is much easier than fixing any limp or bad limb.
- Security robots in the future will not be designed with enough strength in them to successfully overpower Robert Forster.
- 3 humans, a beat up trash can, and a portable philosopher have a better chance of defeating an army of robots built for defense (and with 20+ years training) than an entire crew of 100+ humans in a planned and open revolt.
- The divine punishment for a lifetime of lobotomizing a spacecrew and turning them into cyborgs is to spend eternity in hell standing on top of a burning mountain in a robot costume.