[mellonaut]

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”.

[toomuchtodo]

https://xkcd.com/695/

https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_appar...

https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...

[mellonaut]

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!

[mwint]

This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.

[theGeatZhopa]

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]

5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.

[mellonaut]

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-w... ² https://xkcd.com/695/

[MonkeyClub]

> anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling.

That’s why they do it; that’s how they get you :)