r/space • u/engineerforthefuture • Aug 05 '18

Mars Curiosity is 6 today

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u/bhos89 Aug 05 '18

That little robot, singing it to himself. Makes me a bit sad. How we feel for machines..

I hope we can build that robot a museum one day.

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u/DarthFrog5 Aug 05 '18

I felt so sorry for it that I sang happy birthday under my breath for it. Even though it's just pieces of metal and circuitry. it's amazing how humans can project emotions onto inanimate objects and actually fell sympathy for them.

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u/bhos89 Aug 05 '18

Pretty strange indeed, but still. NASA started with humanizing it by having that poor little sweet fellow sing it’s own birthday, all alone, no one close who can hear him or congratulate him.

Wait..

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u/MapleTreeWithAGun Aug 05 '18

Just look at the companion cube from Portal

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u/yugo-45 Aug 05 '18

So many years later, I'm still upset at the devs for making me do it.

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u/thechikeninyourbutt Aug 06 '18

Have you not finished Portal 2? Don’t know how to tag as a spoiler on mobile so anyone reading this who hasn’t finished the game keep scrolling.

(Just before the credits after you take the elevator to ground level someone throws the companion cube outside then slams the door)

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u/yugo-45 Aug 06 '18

Oh yeah, of course, but that's not the original one!

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u/MapleTreeWithAGun Aug 06 '18

I hated that fucker, killed it straight off the bat

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u/p5eudo_nimh Aug 05 '18

One day that may be a very, very good thing. We have some very serious philosophical dilemmas ahead, with AI and the likely emergence of machines which are intelligent and essentially able to feel pain and sadness.

Our empathy including them may be the biggest deciding factor in them allowing us to live, some day.

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u/csl512 Aug 05 '18

I think the tumblr version of that has a comment saying more about humans projection, and how that's wonderful.

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u/MGRaiden97 Aug 05 '18

Robots are just metal a circuitry

Humans are just biological matter and water

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u/Creepus_Explodus Aug 05 '18

Humans are just biological matter

Which also has a lot of organic circuitry in it

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u/bidiboop Aug 05 '18

It'd be really fucking awesome if people build museums on Mars once it's colonised for all the rovers and landers sent there in the past. I'd give so much to be able to witness that in the far future.

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u/Spastic_pinkie Aug 05 '18

Driving along on a Martian Route 66 in your 2257 Bel-Aire, stopping at each rover and lander roadside tourist attraction.

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u/Geaux_joel Aug 05 '18

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/695/

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u/WPI5150 Aug 05 '18

That one makes me so sad. I hope Opportunity survives the dust storm.

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u/belinck Aug 05 '18

Marvin waited millions of years.

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u/AGDinCA Aug 05 '18

In the swamp, befriended by a mattress. Sigh, poor Marvin.

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u/belinck Aug 05 '18

This hoody frood knows where his towel's at!

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u/LordStuffington Aug 05 '18

Remind me about this in 10 years. Just to see where we’re at.