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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

the first ever song sung on Mars

A missed opportunity for a kazoo-quality Bowie cover.

"It's a godawful small affair..."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It seems a better expenditure than flinging cars into outer space, but that's just me. 🀷

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If Elon Musk wanted to use his company to be a dipshit and fling his car into space, why not?

The EPA and other regulators could control them better, but whatever ventures they choose to make are their own dumb choices. The only ways their dumb PR project intersects with anything NASA related is theyre both doing space things and NASA happens to give them contracts (which is how they're able to afford to launch a car into space as a PR stunt).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The only ways their dumb PR project intersects with anything NASA related...

I mean we're all nail-bitingly hoping Musk-and-friends' increasing amount of space trash doesn't intersect with NASA equipment as much as it already intersects our line of sight to the cosmos. :( lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

For reference, it's a whole genre. Not to be confused with appliances that have speakers and bzzt or beep or play jingles or whatever, or for that matter also musical tesla coils, those are much more like speakers.

It's been a part of computer culture since pretty much forever, now kinda dying out because nothing is mechanical any more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This is fucking amazing!!! :O

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I had a 1541 that played Daisy Daisy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I said, I'd let you engineer "Happy Birthday" AFTER you finish your thermal dynamics research and designing the servo placement.

-and the engineers happily built shit while arguing about it all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Thanks, needed that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Curiosity isn’t a little robot.

It’s the size of a small car…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

There are different scales for big and small. In comparison to everything Curiosity was associated with (rockets, planets) it was tiny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

ACKSHULLY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's what you took from this?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It’s annoying me because that commenter is using a diminutive to try and anthropomorphise a robot.

You can anthropomorphise it but at least have a basic understanding of the dimensions of the thing you’re trying to make cute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I mean, on the cosmic scale that's the context for the story, both cars and robots are tiny ;) I'm sure the black hole will think they're cute before gobbling them up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your mom is the size of a small car, but I still think she's cute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This from the "we" who called Higgs-Boson the blasphemous gd particle but make the joke more popular as the misunderstood "god particle" that eventually became most conceptualized as "the God particle?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 days ago

Also humans

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I wonder if they pitch-corrected it so it plays correctly in the Martian atmosphere....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you like this and haven't seen "Good Night, Oppy" you should go do that right now.

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

A documentary, sounds boring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Troll harder.

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

Incoming copyright lawsuit in 3, 2, 1...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s not enforceable on other planets?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It was broadcast to Earth!

No free fun allowed!

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