Aw...

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... ially-dead

How long did the little autonomous bot surpass it's service life? Doubled it? Rest well in robot heaven with your brother.

[MellowZ32]

the cancer finally got him, eh?

[AppleBonker]

Edit: figured i'd point out that I know these are different craft (the article and this comic). It just reminded me.

[MellowZ32]

it froze to death!

[Encryptshun]

It's okay. Opportunity and Spirit are still functional, though Spirit isn't mobile anymore.

by the way, AppleBonker, that comic makes me really sad for some reason. I blame Johnny 5.

[MellowZ32]

[Encryptshun]

[MellowZ32]

[Otto.]

Edit: figured i'd point out that I know these are different craft (the article and this comic). It just reminded me.

This is heartbreaking.

[Razi]

Robots have no feelings!

[Encryptshun]

Your face has no feelings.

[AppleBonker]

That comic does make me oddly sad. Not sure why it does.

[Encryptshun]

I think it's because it articulates, through anthropomorphic parable, the existential search for truth.

[BusyBadger]

Don't worry, we'll forget about it and in 40 years some astronaut will use some parts from it to save the rest of his team.

[Encryptshun]

Don't worry, we'll forget about it and in 40 years some astronaut will use some parts from it to save the rest of his team.

QFMFT

[RCA]

That comic does make me oddly sad. Not sure why it does.

Did any one else read that picture like the robot would say it?

I found my self putting human emotion into a robot's dialogue. That is what made it EXTRA sad...

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Don't worry, we'll forget about it and in 40 years some astronaut will use some parts from it to save the rest of his team.

Red Planet? Val Kilmer is the sh*t...

The engineering accomplishment of this still blows me away. Hit a moving planet 50 million clicks away, safely and autonomously land a highly delicate and precise instrument on a desolate tundra. Then operate in a micro-dust, sub-zero, and radiation bombarded environment for 6 months while beaming back data.