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    Dead Celebrities 2019

    Tastes Less Game'y
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      Insomnia last edited by

      "My battery is low, and it's getting dark." -Last words of the Mars Rover Opportunity. It was only supposed to work 90 days, was up there for 15 years. Geez, I used it's first selfie as an avatar on... whatever iteration of the board was around then.

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        Sparks @Insomnia last edited by

        @Insomnia we held an impromptu memorial service for the rover at work today. (Engineering companies, go figure.)

        a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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          magee101 Banned @Insomnia last edited by

          @Insomnia Those words coming from a robot are just a wee bit chilling. RIP Opportunity, thank you for the wonderful pictures.

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            TiredEwok last edited by

            Every time I read about Oppy I cry. I don't even know why. It isn't like I even knew about it until we lost the rover but there's something about its loss that hurts me in some deep, profound way.

            "Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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              Insomnia last edited by

              I think honestly it's because the final words weren't literally my batteries are low, it's getting dark; it was a readout about the battery levels, and visual indicators. But we've assigned the rover a gender, and a name. We've humanized those last messages that were sent. Also in our global and instant culture the death of a celebrity gets people because they are in our lives so much, we feel we know them. If Opportunity had gone to Mars during the initial space race, and not during the internet, we probably wouldn't care nearly as much. Hitchbot was killed, if you go back and look at that when it happened.

              ...And for me personally way too much Phillip K Dick's Electric Dreams, Black Mirror, SOMA, and Detroit Become Human lately. I've been on a kick lately, and even watched A. I. again.

              I blame Disney anthropomorphizing everything when we were younger, and the internet. And that first selfie was so darn cute!

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                Sunny @TiredEwok last edited by

                @TiredEwok

                I comfort myself knowing that we're going to Mars. It's on the schedule (so to speak), even if we don't know when or exactly how we're gonna get there. Which means we'll get to Mars and we'll have the ability to grab Opportunity, bring it back, and get it working again. It's a distant future, but it IS in the future. The little bot won't have to stay up there forever.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUYvyAY954

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                  Bruno Ganz, also known as The Guy Who Played Hitler in Downfall and ALL OF THOSE PARODY VIDEOS has passed at age 77.

                  Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
                  I really don't understand He-Man

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                  • Sparks
                    Sparks @Sunny last edited by

                    @Sunny that was how the impromptu memorial at my company ended: "You were a good robot, and you won't be alone forever. We're coming to find you ourselves, soon."

                    a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)

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                      Sunny @Sparks last edited by

                      @Sparks

                      That makes me so happy. 😄

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUYvyAY954

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                        Insomnia last edited by

                        NASA's last word TO Opportunity were Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You."

                        I'll find you in the morning sun
                        And when the night is new
                        I'll be looking at the moon
                        But I'll be seeing you

                        I'm not crying, you're crying. I also got some dust in my eyes and fell into a pile of raw onions.

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                        • Sunny
                          Sunny @Insomnia last edited by

                          @Insomnia

                          Sometimes humans rock. That also makes me happy.

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUYvyAY954

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                          • Tyche
                            Tyche Banned @Ghost last edited by

                            @Ghost said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

                            Bruno Ganz, also known as The Guy Who Played Hitler in Downfall and ALL OF THOSE PARODY VIDEOS has passed at age 77.

                            Here is Hitler's reaction

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                              Insomnia last edited by Insomnia

                              The sailor from that VJ Day kiss.

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                                Kanye Qwest Banned @Insomnia last edited by

                                @Insomnia oh no, goodbye sexual assaulter

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                                  Insomnia @Kanye Qwest last edited by

                                  @Kanye-Qwest Regardless of how actions taken 74 years ago now are viewed in today's light, it's still an iconic picture and an important part of human history.

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                                      Karl Lagerfeld, at 85 (they think).

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                                        @Ninjakitten What a chauvinist piece of crap he was, too.

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                                          Insomnia last edited by

                                          Peter Tork from the Monkees.

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                                            @Insomnia

                                            : ( 😞 They were the first concert I ever went to.

                                            "If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
                                            -- Hamilton: An American Musical

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