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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I'm not sure any greater string of words have ever, or will ever, be strung together. Where do these machines come up with this deep stuff?
Ghost written by some aero-geek about to lose her job.
Would have been even more poignant if it sang a round of “Daisy”.
“Will I dream?”
I would have programmed it to send back the entire lyrics from Never Gonna Give You Up in binary. A Billion mile RickRoll..for the final mike drop.
2001: A Space Odyssey?
Don’t anthromorphize spacecraft. They hate that.
By Rick Asteroid
“Yes, every intelligent being dreams...no one knows why”
I am guessing the message actually came from the twitter bot on earth and not from the spacecraft.
The author, like all lefties, is certifiable.
He will dream of electric sheep.
Dave? ... don’t. ...... stop, Dave...
Very good.
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die.”
And when aliens find it millions of years from now and repair it power it back up... they won’t know what the heck it means. :)
Proving that humanity is fleeting. Lets hope not, though.
And dream girl computers with nice bits and bytes. :)
Strictly from software engineers with a dark sense of humor.
The computer program contained code to transmit those words. The team of programmers put that into the program. That and everything else was programmed. Gullible humans interpreted the words as having deep, emotional meaning, and felt a heartbreak.
It’s a pile of transistors, capacitors, memory units and wires!
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