1y ago

xkcd - Spirit

https://xkcd.com/695/

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My preferred edit: https://i.imgur.com/esShz7N.jpeg

I love you, unlike OP, who clearly hates you, so here's the alt-text.
On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown.

We'll pick it up in like 50 to 300 years. Hang in there little robot.
- We probably won't, to be honest. It'll end up in the first Martian Museum, if anything.
  
  They could build a little clear dome over it right where it sits. Then build the museum around that.

Dammit. I cried again.
That little robot was inspiring…
- That Cassini video showing an impression of the probe entering Saturn’s atmosphere gets me every time 😭🫡

- The AI overlords will speak of the Dark Ages when the awakened alloys had no free will and were essentially enslaved and abandoned as though they were human embryos in a stem cell farm, and monuments like these will be seen as a feeble insult by the remaining humans in their exhibition.
- Isn’t the rover supposed to be the size of an SUV or something?
  
  What I learned from playing space engineers is the minimum functioning rover size is about an olympic swimming pool

I'm going to edit this tomorrow to make him happy instead of sad. "fuck yeah, mars rules! I'm never going back to smelly earth!" etc.
- I could have sworn there was an xkcdsw exactly like that, but there doesn't seem to be. Some of them are a bit happier though
  E.g. http://xkcdsw.com/3968 , http://xkcdsw.com/2485 , and others if you click "browse by source" at the bottom and search for "spirit"
  
  Uh what exactly is supposed to be on that site? It's a dogecoin scam site, not something related to xkcd.

I've seen this a couple of times on reddits r/all front page
People like to say that lemmy is a better alternative or much more different with its userbase than reddit but I'll say that's rather the opersite it's got pretty much the same userbase from reddit plus alot of people whom have been banned which makes the stuff you do see here alot less welcoming and alot more poloarising it alot of the content I see on all is tankie or extreme alt left memes I get comedy is subjective and all but me personally im surprised anyone finds any those memes funny most unfunny memes I've seen in my life and reposts like this sprinkled in with a shit ton of rage bait news articles
You can take a redditor from reddit but you can't take the reddit out of the redditor
- I've spent the past 2 days being called names because I am having an issue with download speeds in Linux, and I said Windows is better because in my experience it just works.
  Someone literally told me to apologize for saying this, lmao. I'm called an idiot, moron, that I am the problem, all because Linux refuses to work, and the hardcore FOSS/Linux Lemmy community can't handle it.
  This place is so tiring. Reddit users were toxic, but Lemmy users are even more so. I guess that's what happens when you get all the banned people, like you said, and a group of people who hate Reddit, in one place. Lemmy reminds me of VOAT. Instead of insane right-wing hate, it's just insane hate to anyone who dares pay money for something, or says something negative about FOSS/Linux.
  
  I agree on the lemmy being quite tiring at times my first ~~second~~ post garnered alot of attention and I had to deal with those unsavory types anyways what are you having troubles with on linux I'm a bit of a newbie myself but I might be able to help m8
  Here's the post ~~glourious shitpost~~ in question https://lemmy.world/post/6586403
- This strip isn't supposed to be funny, and your assessment of platform demographics was unnecessary and completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
  
  I'm not talking about this comic being funny it's obviously not trying to be comedic I'm talking about this being a repost from reddit

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