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WHAT THE HAL

“This mission is too important for me” MY ASS!

2001: A Space Odyssey. Dave asks HAL 9000 to open the pod bay doors. Turns out HAL is an android, sitting in a chair in a control room. HAL responds with: “I’M SORRY, DAVE. I’M AFRAID I CAN’T DO THAT.”, while he is stretching his robot arm across the room to try and reach the lever to open the doors. He can’t however.
Why doesn’t he get up from the chair? Because he has a sleeping cat on his lap.

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