This Space-Exploring Robot Tweeted a Heartbreaking Goodbye

time.com ^ | July 26, 2016 | Mahita Gajanan

[PROCON]

Artist's rendition of poor Philae''s last few moments:

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

“It’s time for me to say goodbye,”

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?

[BenLurkin]

Ghost written by some aero-geek about to lose her job.

[scottinoc]

Would have been even more poignant if it sang a round of “Daisy”.

[Purdue77]

“Will I dream?”

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

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.

[PROCON]

if it sang a round of “Daisy”.

2001: A Space Odyssey?

[rlmorel]

Don’t anthromorphize spacecraft. They hate that.

[SpinnerWebb]

By Rick Asteroid

[scottinoc]

“Yes, every intelligent being dreams...no one knows why”

[TalonDJ]

I am guessing the message actually came from the twitter bot on earth and not from the spacecraft.

[Eagles6]

The author, like all lefties, is certifiable.

[SaveFerris]

He will dream of electric sheep.

[TigersEye]

Dave? ... don’t. ...... stop, Dave...

[RegulatorCountry]

By Rick Asteroid

Very good.

[kosciusko51]

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die.”

[dhs12345]

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.

[dhs12345]

And dream girl computers with nice bits and bytes. :)

[GingisK]

Where do these machines come up with this deep stuff?

Strictly from software engineers with a dark sense of humor.

[I want the USA back]

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!