It also sent back a photo...
Posted on 07/26/2016 1:19:35 PM PDT by PROCON
As it reaches the end of its life
Philae, the first robot to land on a comet, has reached the end of its life and is bidding a final farewell to Earth through a series of sad tweets.
“It’s time for me to say goodbye,” Philae tweeted on Tuesday. “Tomorrow, the unit on @ESA_Rosetta for communication with me will be switched off forever…”
After launching from a Rosetta probe, Philae landed on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014, becoming the first spacecraft to touch down on a comet. However, landing trouble led Philae to bounce across the landscape of the comet, finally settling down in a location about a kilometer away from its intended target, in the shadow of a cliff. As a result, the probe received only 1.5 hours of sunlight for every 12-hour rotation—not enough power to replenish its battery.
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Exactly. They remember back when they were forced to write a program that said “hello world!”
Here we go.
Sounds like we have a computerophobe. Call the PC police!
You guys are so heartless.
After all, it has seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, for instance
Obviously plagiarized. Taken directly from the sign-off song of the old Carol Burnett Show
This is Major Tom to ground control...
It also sent back a photo...
On the old Twilight Zone series, for some reason they always pronounced robots as `robuts’.
As if a clump of metal came up with this...
How do they do that those farm boys and the crop circles.
Hmmm. Maybe they’re from Long Island where they insist on calling donkeys “dunkeys.”
LOL, I remember that story. The hitchhiking robot did fine until he got to Philly.
Ah, the basis of all programs written today.
2001: A Space Odyssey?
The Bell Telephone Laboratory gets first dibs on that as sung by a computer. The movie used that and other true factoids in its script.
Yup. Sort of a right of passage for a newbie programmer whether it is C, C++, VB,... Cobol, Fortran....
Philae lander
Philae lander er
V’ger, anyone?
And Klingons on Uranus.
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