Friday, October 16, 2020

Tumblr Post: Humans Get Curiosity Rover To Sing Happy Birthday


It's quick Tumblr posts like this that manage to remind us that humans can be ridiculously awesome sometimes. Just picturing all these brilliant minds gathered around celebrating the moment that they successfully got the Mars Curiosity Rover to sing "Happy Birthday!" to itself is enough to get the good feels rolling. 

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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

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Text - a cake on Curiosity's birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non- autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars", which was Happy Birthday. 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 plac

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