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Ever diligent, never sleeping, those robot survey teams are out on a vast
catalog of extrasolar worlds. A few of these robots have continued useful
service for centuries. Due to the stray cranial micrometeoroid impact or a
radiation singe from a relatively close gamma-ray burst, a few such ‘bots have
gone wacko. Safety circuitry virtually ensures that such a condition results in
the activation of a default “harmless but raving lunatic” mode, also known as
“going clown.” After returning from a mission, children greet such special
androids with glee. Clownbots often spend a second career in the local
interplanetary circus where they babble, rave and stagger with glee, their
bright and cheerful painted faces always smiling. They finally escaped! No more
long, long missions drifting through the silent, cold dark of space, light-years
from the nearest electro-juice bar.
-best,
Wolf
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