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My power’s low, so this may be the last image I can send

47 points by mellonaut 4y ago

mellonaut 4y ago
NASA apparently builds in onion cutting features in all of their space robots, after Opportunity’s “my battery is getting low and it’s getting dark”.
- mwint 4y ago
  This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
  - mellonaut 4y ago
    Though I completely agree with you on a rational basis (the first string being coined by someone who is not even in NASA¹), for some reason anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling. ¹ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-words/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-w... ² https://xkcd.com/695/ https://xkcd.com/695/
    - MonkeyClub 4y ago
      > anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling. That’s why they do it; that’s how they get you :)
  - theGeatZhopa 4y ago
    With the last electrons in his batteries, the last few watts - the lander finally got a stable connection back, could then create a chatgpt3 account and use the API to express his last wishes on Twitter.
    - fred_is_fred 4y ago
      5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
- toomuchtodo 4y ago
  https://xkcd.com/695/ https://xkcd.com/695/ https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_apparently_cern_scientists_couldnt/ https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_appar... https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
  - mellonaut 4y ago
    Oh wow I coincidentally posted something about the same XKCD strip in my reply to the person above, but have never come across these versions before, thank you!
zeroping 4y ago
https://nitter.net/nasainsight/status/1604955574659035136 https://nitter.net/nasainsight/status/1604955574659035136
- cptcobalt 4y ago
  Tangent: HN needs a "relevant links" comment category, for all the people that post these (helpful?) alternate links, or links to past HN discussions, etc
nmeofthestate 4y ago
Never been a fan of the 'NASA social media guy pretending to be an inanimate object to evoke pathos' schtick.
- rocket_surgeron 4y ago
  Humans have been doing that since the first prehistoric man sharpened the first spear from a tree branch, looked at it, and thought "she's a beaut!" I think it's adorable.

47 points by mellonaut 4y ago

NASA apparently builds in onion cutting features in all of their space robots, after Opportunity’s “my battery is getting low and it’s getting dark”.

mwint 4y ago
This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
- mellonaut 4y ago
  Though I completely agree with you on a rational basis (the first string being coined by someone who is not even in NASA¹), for some reason anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling. ¹ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-words/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-w... ² https://xkcd.com/695/ https://xkcd.com/695/
  - MonkeyClub 4y ago
    > anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling. That’s why they do it; that’s how they get you :)
- theGeatZhopa 4y ago
  With the last electrons in his batteries, the last few watts - the lander finally got a stable connection back, could then create a chatgpt3 account and use the API to express his last wishes on Twitter.
  - fred_is_fred 4y ago
    5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
toomuchtodo 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/695/ https://xkcd.com/695/ https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_apparently_cern_scientists_couldnt/ https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_appar... https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
- mellonaut 4y ago
  Oh wow I coincidentally posted something about the same XKCD strip in my reply to the person above, but have never come across these versions before, thank you!

zeroping 4y ago

https://nitter.net/nasainsight/status/1604955574659035136 https://nitter.net/nasainsight/status/1604955574659035136

cptcobalt 4y ago
Tangent: HN needs a "relevant links" comment category, for all the people that post these (helpful?) alternate links, or links to past HN discussions, etc

nmeofthestate 4y ago

Never been a fan of the 'NASA social media guy pretending to be an inanimate object to evoke pathos' schtick.

rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Humans have been doing that since the first prehistoric man sharpened the first spear from a tree branch, looked at it, and thought "she's a beaut!" I think it's adorable.