News from Mars
This is kind of cute: a woman who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been putting updates about the Phoenix Mars Lander up on Twitter, and switched over to writing in the first person at some point, thus creating a perky online persona for the Lander. Thursday's update:
I had to look up what w00t meant; therefore I am old.
It's slightly disconcerting to hear the Lander's long-term outlook in the first person ("life expectancy=90 sols (92 Earth days) or until I freeze in Martian fall/winter"), but I guess it's better than what the last one would have had to say.
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!That's one small step for man, one giant leap for woman pretending to be a space probe and talking like a teenager.
I had to look up what w00t meant; therefore I am old.
It's slightly disconcerting to hear the Lander's long-term outlook in the first person ("life expectancy=90 sols (92 Earth days) or until I freeze in Martian fall/winter"), but I guess it's better than what the last one would have had to say.
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