xkcd - Spirit

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

We'll never forget him.
- Never forgive, never forget, never go back
- Forget who? Anyway
We probably won't, to be honest. It'll end up in the first Martian Museum, if anything.
- They could build a little clear dome over it right where it sits. Then build the museum around that.

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.

Jan 26, 2010, to add some context.
- 2010-01-26 according to xkcd 1179

Dammit. I cried again.

That little robot was inspiring…

Well it was meant to be inspiring. It fulfilled its life mission 1000 fold.
- I mean I was just a teenager when Oppy was launched. I followed it more or less religiously through out my life. It was easily like seeing a pet go. Loyalest little robot that could.... and did.
That Cassini video showing an impression of the probe entering Saturn’s atmosphere gets me every time 😭🫡

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.
Isn’t the rover supposed to be the size of an SUV or something?
- That's the Curiosity/Perseverance rovers. The second generation Spirit/Opportunity are much smaller. Spirit is to the upper left.
Is that fan made or did he react to the great distress this comic brought and do an update?
- Fanmade. There's actually a lot of alternate versions of this one. This particular ending comes courtesy of Burkitt on xkcdsw
Oh they continued the comic?! Awww yisss! 💓

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.

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"
- Wow that entire site is full of plagiarism
- Uh what exactly is supposed to be on that site? It's a dogecoin scam site, not something related to xkcd.
There are edits like that out there already.
Speak for yourself, I'm not getting milked like a goat.

I do assume the day comes when we need to make the choice...but I hope I can give many more hugs to dem bots before that day comes!

My preferred edit: https://i.imgur.com/esShz7N.jpeg

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."

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

😭

I feel attacked.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R21APOGCm3c/VXEz7DyW-YI/AAAAAAAACY8/3vUyg6qxSrM/s1600/l6c8UNO.png
Let me guess: in the bonus panel, mission control transmits an AI girlfriend to the robot and it lives happily ever after.
- Just a picture. You wouldn’t know her, she goes to a different school.

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.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-funeral-on-mars

STOP MAKING ME CRY!

🥹

This strip isn't supposed to be funny, and your assessment of platform demographics was unnecessary and completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
I've spent the past 2 days being called names because I am having an issue with download speeds in Linux, and I said Windows is better because in my experience it just works.
Someone literally told me to apologize for saying this, lmao. I'm called an idiot, moron, that I am the problem, all because Linux refuses to work, and the hardcore FOSS/Linux Lemmy community can't handle it.
This place is so tiring. Reddit users were toxic, but Lemmy users are even more so. I guess that's what happens when you get all the banned people, like you said, and a group of people who hate Reddit, in one place. Lemmy reminds me of VOAT. Instead of insane right-wing hate, it's just insane hate to anyone who dares pay money for something, or says something negative about FOSS/Linux.
- Yeah I particularly didn't enjoy people from the US who couldn't point my country in a map basically chastising me for mentioning the leftist party that has been in power for something like the last 40 years hasn't done us any good in a post where they were circle jerking about the right wing liberal candidate being bad
  I had to block tons of subs at this point. Mostly political ones but some that shouldn't be political like world news too

who made a comic on my username?