You tell me that it's evolution

OK, now, here's one of those things that I would never have thought to look at, but now that I've seen it, I'm amazed by how cool it is. One of the little scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey that gets trivial attention is Frank Poole playing chess against HAL, and his getting whomped by the computer. An artile at chess.com points out, however, something about HAL's projection of Frank's inevitable defeat.

( I trim to avoid spoilers, although I imagine anyone interested in what might be a continuity error or might be a moment of genius has already seen the film plenty of times.  )

Trivia: New York Patent medicine vendor H H Warner had, around 1880, established a prize of $200 for every new comet discovered by an American. Source: Planets and Perception, William Sheehan.

Currently Reading: V-2, Walter Dornberger.