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-- 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.)