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RIP Opportunity - the best boy.
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Why'd it get stuck? Don't even some of the most basic battle bots have ways to get them unstuck? Though, thinking it through, most battle bots don't have millions of dollars of sensitive hardware on top of them.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Why'd it get stuck? Don't even some of the most basic battle bots have ways to get them unstuck? Sandstorm covered its solar panels and it died
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Eej posted:https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1095533453854920704?s=19 Cool colorblind racism, asshat. Man, Schultz is really loving showing how poo poo he is. Although that statement will appeal to centrists or moderate right "independents" who probably aren't even consciously aware of their racist policies/tendencies.
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Specifically the little heaters to keep its soldered points from becoming too brittle during hybernation had no power to operate.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Why'd it get stuck? Don't even some of the most basic battle bots have ways to get them unstuck? Basic battle bots probably don't deal with dust that fine (apparently it's like talcum powder) nor do they sit around in deep subzero conditions at all times with no maintenance beyond software. Opportunity's final odo reading was like 28 miles, or to put that in scale it would roughly be running the Boston Marathon and then taking a lap around the far end of Boston Common.
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holocaust bloopers posted:To be fair, if it were me that headline would’ve read “President Bloopers installed a full-size flight simulator to pretend fly DCS: F-14 Tomcat.” You know as the president you could probably get a feature full F-22 or F-35 cockpit sim with the 4x projectors on a full dome with surround sound. They have those and they're multiplayer 
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Going out of business to own the libs. https://twitter.com/JustMuteMeNow/status/1095752562584813568
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M_Gargantua posted:You know as the president you could probably get a feature full F-22 or F-35 cockpit sim with the 4x projectors on a full dome with surround sound. Ok well I’m in.
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As optimistic Spirits 1944 days was the fact that Oppurtunity roved for a whopping 5250 days is drat mindboggling. F
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DAS Super! posted:So the FEMA administrator just resigned i got really excited until I remembered that Kirstjen (lol) Nielsen is head of DHS, not FEMA
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"Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the senator." "I take it he was agreeable?" "Oh yes, Senator Graham is extremely afraid that we might tell someone that he's gay"
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:i got really excited until I remembered that Kirstjen (lol) Nielsen is head of DHS, not FEMA The only -jen I approve of being in charge of DHS is Chrisjen Avasarala
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Handsome Ralph posted:Going out of business to own the libs. on one hand, good, but that sucks for his employees
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 WARNING NUCLEAR HOT TAKE DETECTED @ folks ITT expressing more concern about a broken machine on another planet than the millions of people literally starving to death on this one.
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mods changed my name posted:on one hand, good, but that sucks for his employees They were probably only getting minimum wage, which is $11.10/hr here, went up $.90 from last year. He was on tv last night sniveling about how nike makes all the jerseys now and boo hoo.
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Elon. Elon can go first.
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Machines are valuable, though.
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I for one feel more of a connection to a dead piece of machinery on another planet than I due to the vast majority of human beings
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We need a rescue mission, someone get Matt Damon.
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crazyivan45 posted:I for one feel more of a connection to a dead piece of machinery on another planet than I due to the vast majority of human beings this but actually though Those machines have worth and vastly exceeded all of their design parameters. They are triumphs of engineering and deserve our respect
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:seeing a lot of shitposts, none of them saying why i'm wrong Maybe some of us view this news as a welcome distraction from the unending misery that is life and a brief moment of marvel at the engineering achievement coupled with an animistic sadness at the end of Opportunity's mission offers us a respite from the knowledge the world may very well stop being capable of supporting human life during our lifetimes. It's almost as though some of us are complex beings capable of paying attention to multiple things.
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