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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”.
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 agoThis has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
- mellonaut 4y agoThough 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 agoWith 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 ago5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
- toomuchtodo 4y agohttps://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 agoOh 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!