Date: 2010-01-29 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com
http://twitter.com/MarsRovers
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Hmmph! Why would anyone think we want to be ANYWHERE but Mars? http://xkcd.com/695/ #MarsRocks! #xkcd
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Date: 2010-01-29 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Oh good, I am not the only one.

Date: 2010-01-29 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tombfyre.livejournal.com
Well, at least I'm not the only one with a touch of animisim. ^^() The poor things have done a good job, and it would be nice if they could come home.

Date: 2010-01-29 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikoshi.livejournal.com
I was going to say likewise.

Date: 2010-01-29 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] araquan.livejournal.com
Aww. u.u

Date: 2010-01-29 08:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toob.livejournal.com
I felt guilty for feeling sad! Stupid broken empathy chip.

*pause*

I mean lobe! MIRROR NEURONS! I HAVE MIRROR NEURONS!

Date: 2010-01-29 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com
While the way this is portrayed is a bit sad, I prefer to looking at it as a device that has worked well beyond its specs. The orginal mission was supposed to last a few months, not six years!

What's more, the rover will still be functioning for a time as a stationary observation platform, marking a fixed point on mars that can help determine some things about Mars' orbit.

What saddens/annoys me more is the way our current administration is abandoning the space program. The manned moon program has been cut. $700 billion to bail out banks that can't manage their own money? Sure. $300 billion to revamp the health care system? No problem. $14 billion for NASA? Can't do it.

Meanwhile, India has announced that it plans to have a manned mission by 2016. China has an established manned space program. These are two countries that have claimed to be developing nations, so are exempt from the Kyoto Accords. They're developing alright. They're developing manned space programs that will soon be more advanced than that of the US!

Date: 2010-01-29 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com
So it wasn't just me then.

Date: 2010-01-29 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cargoweasel.livejournal.com
i found it sad too. See this is why all those sci fi movies that have humans treating androids/clones/aliens callously is unrealistic. We love toasters and Mars rovers, and anthropomorphize everything in sight! If there were actual humanoid robots around we'd love and cherish them far beyond their ability to love back.


Date: 2010-01-30 08:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpxbrex.livejournal.com
I have calculators that are smarter. LET IT ROT ON MARS, hehe.

Date: 2010-01-30 08:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpxbrex.livejournal.com
We're better at anthropomorphizing things than we are at anthropomorphizing other human beings. The Mars Rover is a machine. On the other hand, many of my relatives spent centuries selling other human beings into slavery because they were dark skinned.

Considering the tyranny humans have inflicted on other human beings, it is not unrealistic in the slightest that sci-fi writers postulate that humans will treat machine intelligence in truly abominable ways. After all, we treat each other in abominable ways.

Date: 2010-01-30 09:25 am (UTC)

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