This was shared with me last night and I thought I would share it with the people here. I found it really funny and now I'm wondering when it will become self-aware and start killing us all. If you know anyone named Sarah Connor or John Connor please see to their safety and survival.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6434773.stm

This is as prudent as naming an Apollo project '13'.

OMG!

I laughed out loud, litterally. I woke up my fiance, this is just OH MY GAAAAH!

I dun't get it..... :uncrowned sad face:

Skynet is the name of the computer system that becomes self-aware in the Terminator series.

John Conner is the leader of the human resistance, and Sarah Conner is his mother.

Ohhhhh..... Well, it might have helped if I had actually watched more than half of one movie of the Terminator series...
But shame on me for not getting the name references.

We just need a computer named H.A.L and the end times will be set in motion

Psh. Everyone knows that to save the world from a Computer-Gone-Mad, you just have to play a game of tic-tac-toe with it. Duh.

I was informed that the Skynet satellite project predates the Terminator movie series.

"Ariane." In my head this sounds much like the word "Aryan." Does this mean the resulting Terminator will have white supremest undertones?

The swim club at the pool I work at has a timer model HAL 2000 (or something to that effect)

ignore me!