Today I learned that the Curiosity sang itself ‘Happy Birthday’ on its year anniversary of being on Mars.
All alone.
Hundreds of thousands of miles from anyone or anything.
Guys I am depressed over robots now.
oh god this is the saddest thing i have ever read
#is it though?????#because i think it’s sweet#imagine; someone somewhere along the line decided to program curiosity to sing that song#someone wrote and inputted that code#just so that on curiosity’s landing anniversary#curiosity could sing to itself#we sent it to another planet but we won’t let its milestones go by without ceremony#i think it’s the most wonderful thing i’ve heard all day#that someone thought to program that tiny little command into curiosity#that curiosity took that tiny little act of human kindness with it (wearealsoboats)
Welp, now we know why that mission was so expensive. Copyrights.