Never been a fan of the 'NASA social media guy pretending to be an inanimate object to evoke pathos' schtick.
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.
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”.
This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
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.
> anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling.
That’s why they do it; that’s how they get you :)
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.
5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
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!
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