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Project on the island of Crete

posted 15 years ago by MuggySphere
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Maybe Colossus was building some kind of mobile body for itself on Crete. then it would abandon the mountain it was in and upload into this new body.

[–] imagestic-1 14 years ago

Mythology tells us that Crete had a mechanical guardian that protected the island from invaders
It's name was "Talos"

[–] MuggySphere 14 years ago

What kind of form did Talos take?

[–] turtletommy 14 years ago

A mechanical man of bronze. See "Jason and the Argonauts" for a representation of him.
http://www.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen -US%3Aofficial&hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1016&bih=644&amp ;q=talos&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&a mp;oq=&gs_rfai=

[–] mlaughlin22 14 years ago

That would be a huge project if you have to move the population some where
else.

[–] Slopmaster4001 14 years ago

They won't have much of a choice since Colossus threatend to remove the populuation by his own means if other human beings didn't.

[–] Angus-8 12 years ago

And so that's what it was about? It was a homage to Greek mythology? If there's no better explanation, I'm going to assume it was a setup for The Revenge of Forbin, which was obviously never realized.

[–] RustyShackleworth 12 years ago

In the novel it was the Isle of Wight, not Crete though the later seems like a more practical location for whatever Colossus was planning.

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[–] becclesbooks 9 years ago

I was watching this again yesterday and it struck me that for a very smart computer, Crete was a fairly dumb choice for its project. Crete is tectonically active, so unless whatever enormous project it was building was earthquake-proof, it would be in danger of being destroyed by an act of nature - handy for humanity if Colossus and Guardian were indeed planning to upload themselves into a new stack of hardware there!