Oh, and then I guess it inspired Bowie's single, Major Thom

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), at the time of its release, was based on a short story called The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke. In that story, the roots of the Tycho Monolith plot segment of 2001 of is sketched out, and then expanded as both a screenplay and a full-length novel.

The SmartThings hub does both ZigBee and Z-Wave, right?

I have been pretty happy so far with the Aotec ZW187 sensors on my doors, and the Aquara TZ-006 ZigBee sensors on my windows. The Aotec sensors are Z-Wave, and the Aquara sensors are ZigBee. So far the battery life on the Aotec devices has been stellar, but the ZigBee once seem to fade within a couple of months.

Both are local-only devices, and paired right up with my HUSZ-B combo stick USB controller. Both are well supported in Home Assistant.

I got both through Amazon, but I'm sure you can source them elsewhere as you prefer.

The SMS network ran on FIDONet for a good long while. It might still do, for all I know

hard for an average person to even obtain this many felonies

It's OK, when you're rich they just let you do it.

/s because because

Is there a tl;dw? I don't have all day here.

Thirty four times, so far

34 rulings. It was prophesied!

Now why would you do that to old Ike? He even tried to warn us

I'd finally have time to read The Silmarillion.

May you live as long as your name scintillates in the ether. GNU, brother.