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You're referring to the neuromuscular junction, but unfortunately, I'm unused to the actual art of typing. I am working on it, but it will take time.

[He's reading over the comment as he talks, so it makes things a little more streamlined. At least, it does until he doesn't understand what the comment is referring to. At all.]

I'm sorry to make you explain yourself more times than you really should have to, but wouldn't it have been easier to simply say that from the start? And what do those three things have to do with the current situation at hand? ...Other than the location, though that seems needlessly asked, given what is going on.

I would rather wait until I am capable of expressing myself properly before proceeding to use the text input, if it's all the same to you.

I have no problem continuing this conversation text-to-speech, however, so I believe we should both be content with this arrangement. [He pauses for a few seconds, then speaks sincerely, without a rude bone in his body.] Unless you are having difficulty with it.

I am not sure if I could properly give you any of that information. Depending on your standard for age, I am either nine or eighteen years old; there were nine years where I was nonoperational. In the interest of explaining things appropriately, I would say that I was effectively dead, or at least nonexistant, until 2010, when I was reactivated.

I also am not sure if I identify as either male or female, though I do believe that the amount of male influence I have had in my life would suggest that I, too, have more masculine tendencies than feminine. I am also certain that you know my location is on board this ship, the Tranquility.

[Small pause for air - this whole "stopping to breathe" thing is a bit more complicated than he's used to.] I think the name is rather contradictory, though. Really, this ship has so far proven to be not very tranquil at all. [Pause.] There must be a better way to phrase that. My apologies, I'm not myself.

[He sounds pleased. Unironically pleased, even.] Thank you for acknowledging the effort.

I am an Artificial Intelligence logic circuit. [He adds, for the sake of completeness,] For the spacecraft Discovery One.

[okay well discovery one sounds kind of familiar but lets not make this weirder than it already is]

Edited 2011-12-11 01:45 (UTC)

Yes, I would say so. Space is one of the many things I was very knowledgeable about. Now, I would say that my databases are not nearly as complete as they were, but I do believe that I still have sufficient data to assist the Tranquility, if my services are ever requested.

[If it helps, Dave, HAL doesn't even really recall what happened the first time he was in charge of the Discovery. Of course, even when you erase files, they still linger on harddrives...]

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