https://nitter.net/nasainsight/status/1604955574659035136
Tangent: HN needs a "relevant links" comment category, for all the people that post these (helpful?) alternate links, or links to past HN discussions, etc
My power’s low, so this may be the last image I can send
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Re: My power’s low, so this may be the last image I can send
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
With the last electrons in his batteries, the last few watts - the lander finally got a stable connection back, could then create a chatgpt3 account and use the API to express his last wishes on Twitter.
5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
Re: My power’s low, so this may be the last image I can send
#13Never been a fan of the 'NASA social media guy pretending to be an inanimate object to evoke pathos' schtick.
Humans have been doing that since the first prehistoric man sharpened the first spear from a tree branch, looked at it, and thought "she's a beaut!"
I think it's adorable.