The End of the Opportunity Rover

[Comradeistan]

Taps starts to play

[Prusenreich]

It is a trick the robot developed an AI and wants us to think it is broken so it can begin to make an army of Mars rovers

[Yusseria]

I imagine aliens would have yellow police tape all around the solar system. They've seen how humans can barely avoid killing each other, much less a whole new alien race.

That’s because in the event of alien contact, xenophobia would fucking skyrocket.

Not hard to see why considering for years in movies, comics and video games we've been led to believe that aliens will abduct and probe us, destroy our civilizations and use our bodies as living power generators.

#NotAllMartians

[The Galactic Liberal Democracy]

Not hard to see why considering for years in movies, comics and video games we've been led to believe that aliens will abduct and probe us, destroy our civilizations and use our bodies as living power generators.

#NotAllMartians

If aliens are as bad as we are and reach us first it’s safe to say we’re looking at a mass genocide against humanity. That is, unless they ignore us or think we aren’t important enough to kill.

[Yusseria]

Not hard to see why considering for years in movies, comics and video games we've been led to believe that aliens will abduct and probe us, destroy our civilizations and use our bodies as living power generators.

#NotAllMartians

If aliens are as bad as we are and reach us first it’s safe to say we’re looking at a mass genocide against humanity. That is, unless they ignore us or think we aren’t important enough to kill.

I really don't get why people are so fond of shitting on their own species.

Seems depressing.

[Kannap]

It is a trick the robot developed an AI and wants us to think it is broken so it can begin to make an army of Mars rovers

[US-SSR]

Missions like Opportunity are far superior to human space missions in every way. We should continue to send probes into space and declare a permanent moratorium on sending humans into space. It's far more expensive, much less cost effective and sacrifices our best and brightest to the ridiculous notion of human colonization of other planets.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Missions like Opportunity are far superior to human space missions in every way. We should continue to send probes into space and declare a permanent moratorium on sending humans into space. It's far more expensive, much less cost effective and sacrifices our best and brightest to the ridiculous notion of human colonization of other planets.

Sacrifice is an inevitability of human exploration, and it is a sacrifice we must be willing to make.

[Heloin]

Missions like Opportunity are far superior to human space missions in every way. We should continue to send probes into space and declare a permanent moratorium on sending humans into space. It's far more expensive, much less cost effective and sacrifices our best and brightest to the ridiculous notion of human colonization of other planets.

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

[The Chuck]

Everyone is praising Oppy for what it was able to accomplish which is amazing... But don't forget those magnificent bastards over at N.A.S.A. and the other companies that put Oppy together. They deserve a major pat on the back for assembling such a rugged little bot!

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Everyone is praising Oppy for what it was able to accomplish which is amazing... But don't forget those magnificent bastards over at N.A.S.A. and the other companies that put Oppy together. They deserve a major pat on the back for assembling such a rugged little bot!

These people are a part of Opportunity, they ARE Opportunity!

[US-SSR]

Missions like Opportunity are far superior to human space missions in every way. We should continue to send probes into space and declare a permanent moratorium on sending humans into space. It's far more expensive, much less cost effective and sacrifices our best and brightest to the ridiculous notion of human colonization of other planets.

Sacrifice is an inevitability of human exploration, and it is a sacrifice we must be willing to make.

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

[Heloin]

Sacrifice is an inevitability of human exploration, and it is a sacrifice we must be willing to make.

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

You may want to do a rereading of Farewell to Arms in your future.

The arguments for staying on earth and keeping humanity on earth be it to protect people or to say there is no good reason to leave is only an argument in favour of a collective long drawn out suicide.

[Xmara]

The postcards to Opportunity website is making me cry.

[US-SSR]

You may want to do a rereading of Farewell to Arms in your future.

The arguments for staying on earth and keeping humanity on earth be it to protect people or to say there is no good reason to leave is only an argument in favour of a collective long drawn out suicide.

as opposed to, what, a quick suicide of a few chosen victims?





what would you call sending humans on a monthslong trip beyond the Van Allen belts where either 1) radiation will fry their brains, 2) their capsule will be turned into Swiss cheese and they will suffocate, 3) their heart muscles will atrophy, 4) all the O2 they create from plants (as if) will make the atmosphere so flammable they can't drop a fork without starting a fire, 5) venting the O2 with nothing to replace it; suffocation again, 6) the part they need to fix the machine that makes their air/water/food is on the resupply ship that takes off six months from now...if not

a collective long drawn out suicide

??

[Heloin]

The postcards to Opportunity website is making me cry.

That's the sweetest thing.

[Reploid Productions]

The postcards to Opportunity website is making me cry.

That's the sweetest thing.

That and the #ThanksOppy Twitter tag just keep punching me in the feels over and over again.

[Heloin]

That's the sweetest thing.

That and the #ThanksOppy Twitter tag just keep punching me in the feels over and over again.

The one that really got me was xkcd's Opportunity Rover comic. Just a cute little rover showing the world all the cool things she found!

[Reploid Productions]

That and the #ThanksOppy Twitter tag just keep punching me in the feels over and over again.

The one that really got me was xkcd's Opportunity Rover comic. Just a cute little rover showing the world all the cool things she found!

Curiosity's farewell to Oppy did it for me, the xkcd one just piled it on even more.

[Pax Nerdvana]

This thread is depressing me now.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

The dust storms and the fact that there is evidence that water once existed on mars, are some of my favorite parts of the planet. As for the Rover, this was bound to happen, especially when it significantly outlasts the time it was designed to operate.

[Mommy Yuno]

"My battery is low....and it's getting dark"

Who encoded that phrase into Op? Or was the Opportunity rover an AI?

[LiberNovusAmericae]

"My battery is low....and it's getting dark"

Who encoded that phrase into Op? Or was the Opportunity rover an AI?

It's a paraphrasing of the last bid of information the opportunity rover sent.

[Woodfiredpizzas]

Vote 1 first city on mars being called Opportunity

[Farnhamia]

Vote 1 first city on mars being called Opportunity

Right behind Helium, Bradbury, Schiaparelli and a host of others.