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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We'll pick it up in like 50 to 300 years. Hang in there little robot.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never forgive, never forget, never go back

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never give up, never surrender.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hotel? Trivago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We probably won't, to be honest. It'll end up in the first Martian Museum, if anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could build a little clear dome over it right where it sits. Then build the museum around that.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love you, unlike OP, who clearly hates you, so here's the alt-text.

On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jan 26, 2010, to add some context.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2010-01-26 according to xkcd 1179

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dammit. I cried again.

That little robot was inspiring…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it was meant to be inspiring. It fulfilled its life mission 1000 fold.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The AI overlords will speak of the Dark Ages when the awakened alloys had no free will and were essentially enslaved and abandoned as though they were human embryos in a stem cell farm, and monuments like these will be seen as a feeble insult by the remaining humans in their exhibition.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn’t the rover supposed to be the size of an SUV or something?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That's the Curiosity/Perseverance rovers. The second generation Spirit/Opportunity are much smaller. Spirit is to the upper left.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that fan made or did he react to the great distress this comic brought and do an update?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fanmade. There's actually a lot of alternate versions of this one. This particular ending comes courtesy of Burkitt on xkcdsw

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm going to edit this tomorrow to make him happy instead of sad. "fuck yeah, mars rules! I'm never going back to smelly earth!" etc.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I could have sworn there was an xkcdsw exactly like that, but there doesn't seem to be. Some of them are a bit happier though

E.g. http://xkcdsw.com/3968 , http://xkcdsw.com/2485 , and others if you click "browse by source" at the bottom and search for "spirit"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh what exactly is supposed to be on that site? It's a dogecoin scam site, not something related to xkcd.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird - I'm seeing that now too. But I wasn't at the time that I copy and pasted the links, and you can see from the other replies around 8 hours ago that other people were also seeing a site hosting edited versions of xkcd comics. I guess it has suddenly changed, after years of being up, in the few hours after I posted it? I have no idea what happened there.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There are edits like that out there already.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People in real life are both. For every wholesome opinion, there exists at least 1 oposing opinion, and probably another one that says you should feel like shit for even thinking of that opinion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Don't forget those geniuses in the middle who want to hear BoTh SiDeS

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's fascinating how we anthropomorphize objects like this. My Roomba got stuck on some cables underneath my TV table and when I found it, it was making a sad sound that just broke my heart. As I picked it up, I found myself saying, "There, there little Roomba, I'll rescue you and get you some juice. Poor thing."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I love robots and find many of them cute! And I don't mind at all them making them cute!

Always when one of those food carrier bots of ours around here gets close by, I pet them while they pass me 💓 They just are tooo cute!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess it's a side effect of the instinct to take care of our children.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In general, unless you are a sociopath with no empathy, humans have an innate need to help and assists others. It makes us feel good to help others, not just our own children.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I feel much better now.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I feel attacked.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Omg, this makes me want to cry almost as much as it singing Happy Birthday to itself every year like a real life Claptrap party.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Excuse me, where is the bonus panel?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me guess: in the bonus panel, mission control transmits an AI girlfriend to the robot and it lives happily ever after.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just a picture. You wouldn’t know her, she goes to a different school.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

STOP MAKING ME CRY!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

who made a comic on my username?

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