I've done some Googling but been unable to find out much about GERTY's name. My questions are:
- What does GERTY stand for (assuming it is an acronym)?
- (If, as it seems, GERTY does not stand for anything) where does the name come from?
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Sign up to join this communityI've done some Googling but been unable to find out much about GERTY's name. My questions are:
The AI in the station was a "GERTY 3000L ROBOTIC ASSIST" as you can see in the screenshot below. The parallels with HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey are pretty obvious.
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