Freefall: DOGGY!

[Coidzor]

It's not. The premise is that the Extinction-Level Event was not a desired aim. Dr Bowman and co were rather upset that it was actually scheduled to be invoked.

The intent, I believe, was to have intelligent robots reach a critical mass, economically and socially, that when the real event hit, humans would have to accept that robots had become ... human. They couldn't shut down the robots - the colony would be too dependent on having those intelligent robots.

I meant the extinction of Human life, sorry. That humanity was dumb enough to just *use* the work of a Chimp without understanding it given what they know about Chimps is sticking a fork in the electrical socket on the species level. Granted, it's been suggested that what we know about chimps and what they know about chimps don't exactly sync up.