-- card: 14265 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 30372 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 2564 -- name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- The letters in the name "HAL," (the computer in the movie 2001), come from the shifting of the letters IBM in the alphabet to the left by one. -- part contents for background part 2 ----- text ----- The intersecting point between scissor-blades can go faster than light if you snap them together very fast. (Since the point does not consist of mass, this does not violate any laws of physics.)