how strange it is to be anything at all

[mytearsrricochet]

this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby

[mevsthhighway]

they didn’t abandon her!! they tried eight months to reach her!!!! as their last farewell to her yesterday they played her “I’ll be seeing you” by Billie Holiday:

“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

They love her so much and they tried so hard!!!

[stickmanbrandon]

Oh man, It doesn’t end there.

This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:

https://www.space.com/41434-mars-rover-opportunity-wakeup-music-playlist.html?fbclid=IwAR3uL6q4tOmLQTIEhiwYegGc99nv4N01HQKItpCLQiQYIptBOevNN6uIyT8

It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“

This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?

So they started calling it her.

They nicknamed her Oppy.

They told her to take a selfie not long ago.

After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.

And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet

Was play her a love song

[jonathanking]

[sociallyawkwardphantasy]

[bigmammallama5]

what if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves

[joaquinterrero-archive]

if u don’t kiss ur cat on their tiny soft little forehead wtf are u even doing

[pussylightlytoasted]

Yelling at her for trying to eat plastic

[parksandwreckreation]

why would they ever delete this scene

[stability]

[pleatedjeans]

[gif87a-com]

[donoharm777]

[babybunbuns]

[thenatsdorf]

[alwayssober-deactivated20170806]

sometime you’re naked…. sometimes you’re not. depends

[honigimohr]

[paprika]

[joshlerisvvreal-blog]

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Lyrics 

Well does it take a sign? and a million miles To get as close as we could ever be I’ll turn my back around Around Around Around Hey, I’m alright Nothing’s wrong and I don’t need any help No, It’s not okay, I’m fine Would you do this to yourself Okay, you get your way I’m not wasting any time on this I’ll be waiting at the start of your life you can turn it back around Around (can we turn it back around?) Around Around If I had the nerve To pick up the phone Just to hear the words behind the sound We could turn this back around Around Hey, I’m alright Nothing’s wrong and I don’t need any help No, It’s not okay, I’m fine Would you do this to yourself Okay, you get your way I’m not wasting any time on this I’ll be waiting at the start of your life When you turn it back around Around Around (can we turn it back around?) Around (can we turn it back around?) Around Around (what’s it matter what you say in the end) Around (when the words are filled with dignity) Around (overwrite overwrite overwrite) Around (who you’d be, who you’d be, who you’d be) What is it gonna take To make your car break down And realize mistakes are repairable You could turn it back around Around Around Around Hey, I’m alright Nothing’s wrong and I don’t need any help No, It’s not okay, I’m fine Would you do this to yourself Okay, you get your way I’m not wasting any time on this I’ll be waiting at the start of your life When you turn it back around Around Around (can we turn it back around?) Around (can we turn it back around?) Around Around (what’s it matter what you say in the end) Around (when the words are filled with dignity) Around (overwrite overwrite overwrite) Around (who you’d be, who you’d be, who you’d be)

[heathens-and-kings]

I wanna be a villain so I can just saunter everywhere. the heroes are always sprinting, always running. you ever seen darth vader run? hell no. and I ain’t about to either.