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.
- 2010-19-26 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.
- What I learned from playing space engineers is the minimum functioning rover size is about an olympic swimming pool
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"
- Uh what exactly is supposed to be on that site? It's a dogecoin scam site, not something related to xkcd.
- Wow that entire site is full of plagiarism
There are edits like that out there already.
Speak for yourself, I'm not getting milked like a goat.

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

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.

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

Thank you, I feel much better now.

😭

I feel attacked.

Excuse me, where is the bonus panel?

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!

🥹

who made a comic on my username?

I've seen this a couple of times on reddits r/all front page

People like to say that lemmy is a better alternative or much more different with its userbase than reddit but I'll say that's rather the opersite it's got pretty much the same userbase from reddit plus alot of people whom have been banned which makes the stuff you do see here alot less welcoming and alot more poloarising it alot of the content I see on all is tankie or extreme alt left memes I get comedy is subjective and all but me personally im surprised anyone finds any those memes funny most unfunny memes I've seen in my life and reposts like this sprinkled in with a shit ton of rage bait news articles

You can take a redditor from reddit but you can't take the reddit out of the redditor

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'm not talking about this comic being funny it's obviously not trying to be comedic I'm talking about this being a repost from reddit
- There's alot of mainstream left wing political parties out there same as there's alot of mainstream right wing parties out there when I say alt left its a case of more extreme left wing political ideas same as when I say alt right it's a case of more extreme right wing political ideas
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.
- I agree on the lemmy being quite tiring at times my first ~~second~~ post garnered alot of attention and I had to deal with those unsavory types anyways what are you having troubles with on linux I'm a bit of a newbie myself but I might be able to help m8
  Here's the post ~~glourious shitpost~~ in question https://lemmy.world/post/6586403
- 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