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NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat alone on a dune.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago

My battery is low and it's getting dark

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

It's just resting. All good. 😒

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I prefer the existential dread of the original. πŸ˜€

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hell yeah science/scientists et al.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh my gosh what is this from? The one where Wallace and Gromit go to the moon?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aye, laddie, that’s A Grand Day Out. Now be a good sport and pass the Wensleydale, would you?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Haha, I knew that was the one! Oh man. Good times.

To replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship.

Worth a watch, definitely.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Carefully, he’s a hero

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

The Jawas will probably pick it up some day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One day in the distant future, that little guy will be sitting in a museum.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not unless it's a museum in Mars. Bringing it back to Earth would be a massive waste of resources.

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

Octospider can have a little dream, as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That thing was such an inspiration. Also, for once they took some risk and it really paid off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

c3po and r2 are wandering away from it

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

Did it not live YEARS past its expected time?

Any chance the rover can like... Repair it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I mean, of course it's alone. I'd be quite surprised if it wasn't. Is this some sort of attempt to get us emotionally weepy about a broken drone?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it is it's bloody working

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I've binged too many Star Wars animated series not to feel sad about broken drones left behind. β€οΈπŸ€–β€οΈ

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

πŸ˜†πŸ‘Œ that's freaking good.

Got me into a lamp horror movie vibe by the time the dude shows up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"We couldn't be prouder or happier with how our little baby has done," said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity Project Manager at JPL, during a livestreamed tribute to the helicopter on Jan. 31. "It's been the mission of a lifetime for all of us. And I wanted to say thank you to all of the people here that gave their weekends, their late nights. All the engineers, the aerodynamic scientists, the technicians who hand-crafted this aircraft."

Bet JPL could invent something to get even you to care :p

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

Marvin the Martian is around, but is good at avoiding the cameras