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@memexterminator
yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had a short training article on recognizing computer-generated faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE
Where’s that image with the self driving car that is trapped in a salt circle made of “do not cross” symbols that its software won’t let it disobey
This one?
THE FAE ARE NOT GONE HUMANS JUST MADE THEM CYBORGS
These stories are deeply depressing.
Airlines had to pay more for two optional upgrades that could warn pilots about sensor malfunctions. Boeing now plans to make one of the fea
346 people are dead because of this. we live in hell
In 2019 plane safety software is offered as DLC
how to uhhhh get a do over of the last 3 months
you’ve heard of: getting emotionally attached to your roomba
now get ready for: genuinely mourning the mars rover like a deceased loved one
SHE SERVED MANKIND FOR SO MANY YEARS AND NOW SHE’S JUST LAYING UP THERE COLD AND ALONE UNDER A COVER OF DUST TAKEN FROM US BY A SPACE STORM AND SHE WILL NOT BE GIVEN A PROPER RESTING PLACE UNTIL HUMANS REACH MARS AND RETRIEVE HER
This was Opportunity. Let me tell you about her sister, Spirit. And their stories are how you can tell their names apart, because they were so appropriately named.
They were twins, identically built in every way. They sent Spirit to the north, and Opportunity to the south. They sent Spirit to what they thought was a dried sea bed, that unfortunately turned out to be nothing of the sort. It was plains, covered in millions of slightly too large, unremarkable, and extremely inconveniently placed rocks. You see pictures of thousandands of rocks? More than likely it came from Spirit.
The nearest interesting feature were mountains that were miles away. And the rovers? They only travel dozens of feet every Sol (One Sol is a martian day, which is 25 hours long). She was only designed to last for ninety days. So they had a hard choice to make. Keep her in her designated area and look at rocks they probably wouldn’t learn much new from, or set course to those mountains, which she likely wouldn’t live long enough. They chose the mountains.
Opportunity was set to land in (or near, can’t remember) a large crater, which they thought was interesting but didn’t expect much. But almost immediately, they found signs of mars having been wet.
Spirit, along her way, got stuck on a rock that they didn’t see. And their efforts to get her off, ended up bogging her down. Winter was approaching, and she spent months stuck. They thought that would be the end of he. Howerver, there, but for the grace of god, she managed to get free before winter.
Meanwhile, Opportunity kept find lots of cool new things.
Spirit along the way somewhere, her front wheel broke down. They thought that might be the end of her. Until someone thought to do the inconcievable- they turned her around, and drove her backwards. She backed herself everywhere she went from there on, dragging her dead front wheel in the sand. She slowed down conciderably, but somehow she kept going.
Opportunity still kept finding neat things that massively advances our knowledge of Mars.
Somewhere aling the way, dust so badly covered Spirit’s solar panels, she was losing power. She was dying. Again, they thought it would be the end of her. But a powerful dust devil happened along and hit her, which ended up blowing most of the dust off her. She started getting good power again.
Spirit made it to the mountain, several years after she landed. The mountain was more rugged than though thought. It was a gamble if she could make it up before winter. If she didn’t, that would be the end of her. It sounds like I’m overusing that, but no. She nearly died several times.
So they decided to go for it. They sent her up, and she barely made it. She took the first photo from a mountain view on another planet. I tried to find it, but the searches are all overrun with Opportunity photos right now.
I am unsure of what happened to Spirit after that, but she wasn’t around much longer. Opportunity had a relatively easy time. She had ample opportunities to find new things. But Spirit fought tooth and nail for every achievement she had.
That’s how you tell them apart. Opportunity had plent of them. And Spirit was full of fight.
And this was the last set of images she ever sent back to us-
Whaddup, I’m crying!
this fucks me up every time I listen to it
My friends:
Me:
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
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!!!
Happy Valentine’s day!
At some point in our species’ future, a human will walk up to the Opportunity rover, clear the dust off of her solar array, and wake her up.
This probably won’t happen in my lifetime, but it will happen, and when it does, it will be incredible.
i think it’s very brave and sexy of me to still play pokemon games in the exact same way i did when i was 5 years old - ignoring all stat changing moves. this is an offensive move only household. if you effectively stratagise using stat changes in battle Fuck You
my DREAM JOURNAL blog was ?????? flagged???? theres not even any ????? photos???
STAFF TOOK YOUR DREAM JOURNAL