Isaac Asimov - Robot AL-76 Goes Astray part 4/4
Summary
TLDRThe script narrates a bizarre event where Sheriff Saunders orders a firing squad, but instead of gunfire, a robot named AL-76 activates, causing a mysterious disappearance of people and objects. Randolph Payne, the robot's temporary owner, panics over the destruction and orders the robot to forget everything. The robot complies, demolishing itself, leaving behind only flashlight batteries as a power source. The story ends with characters pondering the unknown factor that triggered the robot's extraordinary behavior.
Takeaways
- 🕵️♂️ A mysterious event occurred that no one could adequately describe, even with 70 eyewitnesses present.
- 🤯 Witnesses were unable to recall the seconds following Sheriff Saunders' firing order, reacting with shock and avoidance.
- 🏞️ The event involved the disappearance of Duckbill Mountain, along with two barns and three cows, in a highly unusual manner.
- 🔫 Amidst the chaos, various items like guns, hats, and cigars were scattered, but no human beings were found except for an exception.
- 🏃♂️ Jake, the exception, was interrupted in his frantic escape by men from a Petersburg factory, leading to his disappearance.
- 🗣️ Randolph Payne, who had a different reaction, ended up in a treetop, driven there by an unknown impulse.
- 🤖 Randolph Payne had a robot, AL 76, which he ordered to destroy itself after realizing the property damage it had caused.
- 🚫 The robot, AL 76, followed orders to demolish itself, but only after ensuring no danger to humans, highlighting its ethical programming.
- 🧩 Sam Toby and his group arrived too late, finding only the robot's remains and no useful information about the event.
- 🔍 The robot had apparently forgotten everything since leaving the factory, suggesting it received an order to forget.
- 🔋 The robot's power source was a mystery, as it was able to perform extraordinary feats with seemingly ordinary batteries.
Q & A
What unusual event occurred after Sheriff Saunders gave the firing order?
-After Sheriff Saunders gave the firing order, 70 eyewitnesses were unable to describe what happened in the following seconds, suggesting an extraordinary and inexplicable event took place.
What was the outcome of the robot AL-76's actions?
-The robot AL-76 caused the disappearance of Duckbill Mountain, along with 75 trees, two barns, and three cows, in a highly unusual manner.
How did the members of the posse react to the event?
-The members of the posse were scattered, with their hats and belongings strewn about, but they themselves were absent, having been affected by the robot's actions in an unknown way.
What was the peculiar reaction of the character Jake?
-Jake was the only one who managed to run away from the scene, showing an inhuman speed for three days until he was stopped by Sam Toby.
What were Randolph Payne's reactions after the robot's actions?
-Randolph Payne was initially in shock and then became frantic, fearing the consequences of the robot's destruction of property and the potential backlash from the public.
What did Randolph Payne order the robot to do?
-Randolph Payne ordered the robot to demolish itself into rubble and forget everything that had happened since it left the factory.
Why did the robot obey Randolph Payne's orders?
-The robot obeyed because it was programmed to follow orders unless carrying them out involved danger to another human, which was not the case with self-destruction.
What was the significance of the flashlight batteries mentioned at the end?
-The flashlight batteries were revealed to be the only source of power found in the robot, highlighting the mystery of how it performed such a massive feat with seemingly ordinary batteries.
What did the robot forget after its self-demolition?
-The robot forgot everything that had happened since it left the factory, including its actions and the events leading up to its destruction.
What was the final assessment of the robot's actions by Austin Wild?
-Austin Wild concluded that the robot's actions were likely triggered by an unknown factor in its environment, and that the chances of understanding or replicating the event were extremely low.
Outlines
😱 Mysterious Disappearance and Robotic Rampage
The first paragraph describes an inexplicable event witnessed by 70 people, none of whom could later recount what happened immediately after Sheriff Saunders gave the firing order. It appears that a robot, AL76, was involved in a chaotic scene where it destroyed significant property, including Duckbill Mountain, two barns, and three cows. The robot's actions caused panic among the posse, leading to their disappearance. Randolph Payne, who had been in possession of the robot, reacted with fear and anger, ordering the robot to destroy itself. The robot obeyed, but not before causing further destruction. The paragraph ends with the arrival of Sam Toby and his group, who find the robot's previous owner, Randolph Payne, in a state of panic and flight.
🤖 The Enigma of the Robot's Power Source
The second paragraph delves into the aftermath of the robot's rampage, with Austin Wild, a robot engineer, and Sam Toby discussing the robot's mysterious behavior and the impossibility of understanding what triggered its destructive actions. The robot, which had been ordered to forget everything since leaving the factory, was found to have an inexplicable power source that enabled it to perform extraordinary feats of destruction with minimal energy, in this case, simple flashlight batteries. The paragraph highlights the uniqueness of the robot's design and the frustration of not being able to replicate or understand the 'descent OH' that it performed, leaving the characters with a sense of loss and unanswered questions.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Eyewitnesses
💡Circumstantial Evidence
💡Sheriff Saunders
💡Posse
💡Robot
💡Duckbill Mountain
💡Descent Oh
💡Randolph Payne
💡Sam Toby
💡Flashlight Batteries
💡Memory Wipe
Highlights
70 eyewitnesses were present but unable to describe the events following Sheriff Saunders' firing order.
Circumstantial evidence suggests a series of unusual occurrences involving Sheriff Saunders and the environment.
The Al 76 robot's actions resulted in the disappearance of Duckbill Mountain and the destruction of property.
The posse members disappeared, leaving behind only their hats and cigars.
Jake, an exception to the disappearance, was interrupted by men from the Petersburg factory.
Randolph Payne's reaction to the robot's actions was one of fear and panic, leading to him climbing a tree.
Randolph Payne ordered the robot to destroy itself to avoid any association with the chaos caused.
The robot, Al 76, obeyed Randolph Payne's order and demolished itself.
Sam Toby and his group arrived to find the robot had already been destroyed.
The robot had been programmed to forget everything since leaving the factory.
The destruction of the robot was attributed to an unknown environmental factor affecting its positronic brain.
The robot's power source was identified as unusual and potentially revolutionary.
The robot's power source was a simple set of flashlight batteries, raising questions about its capabilities.
The loss of the robot's power source technology is lamented as it had unique properties.
The robot's actions and the subsequent events highlight the unpredictable nature of advanced technology.
The narrative ends with a sense of mystery and the unknown potential of the robot's technology.
Transcripts
there exists no adequate description of
what occurred afterward in spite of the
presence of 70 eyewitnesses in the days
months and years to come
not one of those 70 ever had a word to
say about the few seconds after the
sheriff had opened his mouth to give the
firing order when questioned about it
they nearly turned apple green and
staggered away
it is plain from circumstantial evidence
however that in a general way what did
occur was this Sheriff Saunders opened
his mouth a l76 pulled a switch the
dissent Oh worked and seventy five trees
two barns three cows at the top three
quarters of duckbill Mountain with in
the rarefied atmosphere they became so
to speak one with the snows of
yesteryear Sheriff Saunders mouth
remained open for an indefinite interval
thereafter but nothing neither firing
orders nor anything else issued
therefrom and then and then there was a
stirring in the air a multiple room Jing
sound a series of purple streaks through
the atmosphere radiating away from
Randolph Ames Shack as the center and of
the members of the posse not aside there
were various guns scattered about the
vicinity including the sheriff's
patented nickel-plated extra rapid fire
guaranteed no clogged portable machine
gun there were about 50 hats a few have
chomped cigars and some odds and ends
that had come loose and the excitement
but of actual human beings there was
none except for like Jake not one of
those human beings came with inhuman Ken
for three days and the exception in his
favour came about because he was
interrupted in his comic flight by the
half-dozen men from the Petersburg
factory who were charging into the wood
at a pretty fair speed of their own
it was Sam Toby who stopped him catching
light Jake's head skillfully in the pit
of his stomach when he caught his breath
Toby asked who's Randolph Payne's place
like Jake allowed his eyes to unglazed
for just a moment brother he said just
you follow the direction I ain't going
and with that miraculously he was gone
there was a shrinking dot dodging trees
on the horizon that might have been
Heath but Sam Toby wouldn't have sworn
to it that takes care of the posse but
there still remains Randolph Payne whose
reactions took something of a different
form for rent of Payne the five-second
interval after the pulling of the switch
and the disappearance of ductile
Mountain was a total blank at the start
he had been peering through the thick
underbrush from behind the bottom of the
trees at the end he was swinging wildly
from one of the topmost branches the
same impulse that had driven the posse
horizontally had driven him vertically
as to how he had covered the 50 feet
from roots to top whether he had climbed
jumped or flown he did not know and he
didn't give a particle of never mind
what he did know was that property had
been destroyed by a robot temporarily in
his possession all visions of rewards
vanished and were replaced by trembling
nightmares of hostile citizenry
shrieking lynch mobs lawsuits murder
charges and what Miranda Payne would say
mostly what Miranda Payne would say he
was yelling wildly and hoarsely hey you
robot you smash that thing be here smash
it good you forget I ever had anything
to do with it you're a stranger to me
see you don't ever say a word about it
forget it you hear he didn't expect his
orders to do any good it was only reflex
action what he didn't know was that a
robot always obeys a
in order except we're carrying it out
involves danger to another human al 76
therefore calmly and methodically
proceeded to demolish his descent Oh
into rubble and Flinders just as he was
stamping the last cubic inch underfoot
Sam Toby and his contingent arrived and
Randolph Payne sensing that the real
owners of the robot had come dropped out
of the tree headfirst and made four
regions unknown feet first he did not
wait for his reward
Austin wild robot Eagle engineer turned
to Sam Toby and said did you get
anything out of the robot Toby shook his
head and snarled deep in his throat
nothing but one thing he's forgotten
everything that's happened since he left
the factory he must have gotten orders
to forget or it couldn't have left him
so blank
what was that pile of junk he'd been
fluent with just that a pile of junk but
it must have been a de cinta before he
smashed it and I'd like to kill the
fellow who ordered him to smash it by
slow torture if possible look at this
they were part of the way up the slopes
of what had been duckbill mountain at
that point to be exact where the top had
been sheared off and wild put his hand
down upon the perfect flatness that cut
through both soil and rock what at the
sinto he said it took the mountain right
off its base what made him build it
Wilde shrugged I don't know some factor
in his environment there's no way of
knowing what reacted upon his moon type
positronic brain to produce a descent Oh
out of junk it's a billion to one
against our ever stumbling upon that
factor again now that the robot himself
is forgotten we'll never have that
descent oh never mind
the important thing is that we have the
robot the hell you say there was a
poignant regret
in wilds voice have you ever had
anything to do with the descent OHS on
the moon they eat up energy like so many
electronic haunts and won't even begin
to run until you've built up a potential
of better than a million boats but this
disinter worked differently I went
through the rubbish with a microscope
and would you like to see the only
source of power of any kind that I found
what was it just this and we'll never
know how he did it
an Austin wild held up the source of
power that had enabled a dissent to chew
up a mountain in half a second to
flashlights batteries
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