[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 :)