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	<title>Comments on: Cool Stuff: How did R2-D2 Get His Name?</title>
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		<title>By: StarBlazer101</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-470012</link>
		<dc:creator>StarBlazer101</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doesn't everybdy refer to R2 as a "he". 

Example: 
Luke: "He claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. "

C3-PO: "It wasn't my fault, sir, please don't deactivate me. I told him not to go, but he's faulty, malfunctioning. Kept babbling on about his mission. "</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t everybdy refer to R2 as a &#8220;he&#8221;. </p>
<p>Example:<br />
Luke: &#8220;He claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. &#8221;</p>
<p>C3-PO: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t my fault, sir, please don&#8217;t deactivate me. I told him not to go, but he&#8217;s faulty, malfunctioning. Kept babbling on about his mission. &#8220;</p>
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		<title>By: zeeol</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-445324</link>
		<dc:creator>zeeol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>cool</description>
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		<title>By: How did R2-D2 Get His Name? &#124; RyanDavis.Net</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-279705</link>
		<dc:creator>How did R2-D2 Get His Name? &#124; RyanDavis.Net</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Link [Via Neatorama]  April 12th 2008 Posted to History, Movies [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Landlover</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-230523</link>
		<dc:creator>Landlover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John Dykstra also created the FX in the original Battlestar Galactica series.
If Dykstra's talent was instrumental in making Star Wars a monumental success, shouldn't the original "Galactica" be just as massive?


*Think*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Dykstra also created the FX in the original Battlestar Galactica series.<br />
If Dykstra&#8217;s talent was instrumental in making Star Wars a monumental success, shouldn&#8217;t the original &#8220;Galactica&#8221; be just as massive?</p>
<p>*Think*</p>
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		<title>By: Trip Hop Clan &#187; Blog Archive &#187; How did R2-D2 Get His Name?</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-179284</link>
		<dc:creator>Trip Hop Clan &#187; Blog Archive &#187; How did R2-D2 Get His Name?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] From the &#8220;Stuff Chrome Already Knew&#8221; department.  [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Como nasceu o nome do R2D2 &#124; Cybervida</title>
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		<dc:creator>Como nasceu o nome do R2D2 &#124; Cybervida</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Se Ã© verdade ou nÃ£o, acho que sÃ³ o prÃ³prio Lucas pode dizer. Vi a nota no Slash Movies. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Origen del nombre de R2-D2 &#124; Aglarond Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-178212</link>
		<dc:creator>Origen del nombre de R2-D2 &#124; Aglarond Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Slashfilm he encontrado una explicaciÃ³n sobre el origen del nombre del robot R2-D2, de la pelÃ­cula de Star [...]</description>
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		<title>By: BagOfNothing.com &#187; How did R2-D2 Get His Name?</title>
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		<dc:creator>BagOfNothing.com &#187; How did R2-D2 Get His Name?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skyfucker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Skyfucker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, we all know that George didn't just make it up, because he's never come up with a damned original thing in his entire career. yeah, yeah, I know you're all Star Wars fans; hell, even I liked the first one. Of course, I was fifteen at the time, but whatever. John Dykstra really should get all the credit, since the pre-CG special effects made the film. It surely wasn't the writing or directing, or the cobbling together of every film cliche ever devised. All I can say for George Lucas is that he's one of the luckiest bastards ever to stumble into a fortune.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, we all know that George didn&#8217;t just make it up, because he&#8217;s never come up with a damned original thing in his entire career. yeah, yeah, I know you&#8217;re all Star Wars fans; hell, even I liked the first one. Of course, I was fifteen at the time, but whatever. John Dykstra really should get all the credit, since the pre-CG special effects made the film. It surely wasn&#8217;t the writing or directing, or the cobbling together of every film cliche ever devised. All I can say for George Lucas is that he&#8217;s one of the luckiest bastards ever to stumble into a fortune.</p>
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		<title>By: Technogab &#124; Technology News Podcast with a touch of Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-168809</link>
		<dc:creator>Technogab &#124; Technology News Podcast with a touch of Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: KSoldier</title>
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		<dc:creator>KSoldier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But...

How did George Lucas get HIS name?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>How did George Lucas get HIS name?</p>
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		<title>By: Captain</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-168078</link>
		<dc:creator>Captain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi rodrigo,

here is a reference which I found:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/usercomments</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi rodrigo,</p>
<p>here is a reference which I found:<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/usercomments" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/usercomments</a></p>
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		<title>By: AndrÃ© Deen</title>
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		<dc:creator>AndrÃ© Deen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look for this on: 
http://www.c2i.ntu.edu.sg/AI+CI/Humor/AI_Jokes/FrameProblem.html
It describes the real source of the name.

Once upon a time there was a robot, named R1 by its creators. Its only task was to fend for itself. One day its designers arranged for it to learn that its spare battery, its precious energy supply, was locked in a room with a time bomb set to go off soon. R1 located the room, and the key to the door, and formulated a plan to rescue its battery. There was a wagon in the room, and the battery was on the wagon, and R1 hypothesized that a certain action which it called PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) would result in the battery being removed from the room. Straightaway it acted, and did succeed in getting the battery out of the room before the bomb went off. Unfortunately, however, the bomb was also on the wagon. R1 knew that the bomb was on the wagon in the room, but didn't realize that pulling the wagon would bring the bomb out along with the battery. Poor R1 had missed that obvious implication of its planned act.

Back to the drawing board. "The solution is obvious," said the designers. "Our next robot must be made to recognize not just the intended implications of its acts, but also the implications about their side-effects, by deducing these implications from the descriptions it uses in formulating its plans." They called their next model, the robot-deducer, R1D1. They placed R1D1 in much the same predicament that R1 had succumbed to, and as it too hit upon the idea of PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) it began, as designed, to consider the implications of such a course of action. It had just finished deducing that pulling the wagon out of the room would not change the colour of the room's walls, and was embarking on a proof of the further implication that pulling the wagon out would cause its wheels to turn more revolutions than there were wheels on the wagon ... when the bomb exploded.

Back to the drawing board. "We must teach it the difference between relevant implications and irrelevant implications," said the designers, "and teach it to ignore the irrelevant ones." So they developed a method of tagging implications as either relevant or irrelevant to the project at hand, and installed the method in their next model, the robot-relevant-deducer, R2D1 for short. When they subjected R2D1 to the test that had so unequivocally selected its ancestors for extinction, they were surprised to see it sitting, Hamlet-like, outside the room containing the ticking bomb, the native hue of its resolution sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, as Shakespeare (and more recently Fodor) has aptly put it. "Do something!" they yelled at it. "I am," it retorted. "I'm busily ignoring some thousands of implications I have determined to be irrelevant. Just as soon as I find an irrelevant implication, I put it on the list of those I must ignore, and ..." the bomb went off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look for this on:<br />
<a href="http://www.c2i.ntu.edu.sg/AI+CI/Humor/AI_Jokes/FrameProblem.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.c2i.ntu.edu.sg/AI+CI/Humor/AI_Jokes/FrameProblem.html</a><br />
It describes the real source of the name.</p>
<p>Once upon a time there was a robot, named R1 by its creators. Its only task was to fend for itself. One day its designers arranged for it to learn that its spare battery, its precious energy supply, was locked in a room with a time bomb set to go off soon. R1 located the room, and the key to the door, and formulated a plan to rescue its battery. There was a wagon in the room, and the battery was on the wagon, and R1 hypothesized that a certain action which it called PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) would result in the battery being removed from the room. Straightaway it acted, and did succeed in getting the battery out of the room before the bomb went off. Unfortunately, however, the bomb was also on the wagon. R1 knew that the bomb was on the wagon in the room, but didn&#8217;t realize that pulling the wagon would bring the bomb out along with the battery. Poor R1 had missed that obvious implication of its planned act.</p>
<p>Back to the drawing board. &#8220;The solution is obvious,&#8221; said the designers. &#8220;Our next robot must be made to recognize not just the intended implications of its acts, but also the implications about their side-effects, by deducing these implications from the descriptions it uses in formulating its plans.&#8221; They called their next model, the robot-deducer, R1D1. They placed R1D1 in much the same predicament that R1 had succumbed to, and as it too hit upon the idea of PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) it began, as designed, to consider the implications of such a course of action. It had just finished deducing that pulling the wagon out of the room would not change the colour of the room&#8217;s walls, and was embarking on a proof of the further implication that pulling the wagon out would cause its wheels to turn more revolutions than there were wheels on the wagon &#8230; when the bomb exploded.</p>
<p>Back to the drawing board. &#8220;We must teach it the difference between relevant implications and irrelevant implications,&#8221; said the designers, &#8220;and teach it to ignore the irrelevant ones.&#8221; So they developed a method of tagging implications as either relevant or irrelevant to the project at hand, and installed the method in their next model, the robot-relevant-deducer, R2D1 for short. When they subjected R2D1 to the test that had so unequivocally selected its ancestors for extinction, they were surprised to see it sitting, Hamlet-like, outside the room containing the ticking bomb, the native hue of its resolution sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, as Shakespeare (and more recently Fodor) has aptly put it. &#8220;Do something!&#8221; they yelled at it. &#8220;I am,&#8221; it retorted. &#8220;I&#8217;m busily ignoring some thousands of implications I have determined to be irrelevant. Just as soon as I find an irrelevant implication, I put it on the list of those I must ignore, and &#8230;&#8221; the bomb went off.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simpsons Reference Number 1: This just reminds me of "Max Power? Cool name" "Hehe, thanks. I got it off a hairdryer"

Simpsons Reference2 : This sounds so much like Comic Book Guy it's unreal... 
"Andras Says:
Wow - thatâ€™s real breaking news. Especially if you ignore that it was in â€œSkywalkingâ€, the unofficial George Lucas biography about 20 years ago."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simpsons Reference Number 1: This just reminds me of &#8220;Max Power? Cool name&#8221; &#8220;Hehe, thanks. I got it off a hairdryer&#8221;</p>
<p>Simpsons Reference2 : This sounds so much like Comic Book Guy it&#8217;s unreal&#8230;<br />
&#8220;Andras Says:<br />
Wow - thatâ€™s real breaking news. Especially if you ignore that it was in â€œSkywalkingâ€, the unofficial George Lucas biography about 20 years ago.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The Shitheel at Camp Pendleton</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Shitheel at Camp Pendleton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Captain</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-167501</link>
		<dc:creator>Captain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I heard that on TV in a program about authors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I heard that on TV in a program about authors.</p>
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		<title>By: rodrigo</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-167135</link>
		<dc:creator>rodrigo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>r u kidding me?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>r u kidding me?</p>
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		<title>By: Captain</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-166988</link>
		<dc:creator>Captain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wizard of OZ was named OZ because the author was sitting in front of the filing cabinet with the bottom drawer labeled O-Z.

Star Wars is just awesome!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wizard of OZ was named OZ because the author was sitting in front of the filing cabinet with the bottom drawer labeled O-Z.</p>
<p>Star Wars is just awesome!</p>
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		<title>By: StarWarsologie : l&#8217;origine du nom de R2D2 &#171; Mon billet</title>
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		<dc:creator>StarWarsologie : l&#8217;origine du nom de R2D2 &#171; Mon billet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mon Billet</title>
		<link>http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/10/cool-stuff-how-did-r2-d2-get-his-name/#comment-166701</link>
		<dc:creator>Mon Billet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Rookie: it doesnt matter. it looks like vacuum cleaner anyway..

Funny, I just had the same reflexion. A kind of vacuum-transformer...</description>
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<p>Funny, I just had the same reflexion. A kind of vacuum-transformer&#8230;</p>
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