Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Quick Tumblr Thread On Humans' Love For Curiosity Rover


Gotta love humans banding together to accomplish some historical good. Historical good like getting the Curiosity Rover to sing happy birthday to itself. 

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Text - Sandra Tayler @SandraTayler Sometimes when I forget that humans are amazing, I think of curiosity singing Happy Birthday on Mars, and this response:

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Text - thebaconsandwichofregret No guys you don't understand. The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself. So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake

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Text - This isn't a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can't get to because it's name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing. That's not sad, that's awesome.

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