Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg

Annie

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  1. ARF2

    ARF2 said, 5 months ago

    Whatever the problem is on the satellite computer, it probably started last Sunday, 30 Dec: “– ERROR! COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZED!” Xaxos, or one of his agents, must have typed something wrong. Spelling counts!

  2. davidf42

    davidf42 said, 5 months ago

    Morning, Anniephans!
    Just to remind us all of how computers have simplified all our lives.


    Here’s the link to Annie 2004 .

  3. jmcx4

    jmcx4 said, 5 months ago

    @davidf42
    We have become victims of our own technology.

  4. Bibliomike

    Bibliomike said, 5 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be cool if Xaxos showed up as the bad guy in the Will Smith ANNIE reboot? (I know it won’t really happen – I’d just enjoy seeing a cyborg singing “Easy Street”!)

  5. JanCinLV

    JanCinLV said, 5 months ago

    Maeder & Kupperburg are right, you know. You really don’t want to piss off the computer.

  6. kaecispop

    kaecispop said, 5 months ago

    Was there a solar flare at that time. The influx of solar radiation sometimes shut down satellites if they are caught with the operators being unaware.

  7. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    Some error has occurred but they don’t know it yet.

  8. Trucker Ron

    Trucker Ron said, 5 months ago

    Punctuation counts as well. Read about the theories as to why Mariner 1 was lost:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1

  9. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    “…Regardless of whatever may have given rise to initial reports of a “missing hyphen”, the simplest and most consistent-sounding explanation that the public and Congress would accept would probably have been preferable to those who simply wanted to get on with the job of a Venus fly-by mission. The stories had contradictions, perhaps, but they were so technical that nobody who could have interfered with Mariner-program progress was likely to care about them or even notice. (After all, even in one later NASA account, the supposed “hyphen” is reported as missing from instructions at one point in the text, and from equations at another3)."

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