Though I completely agree with you on a rational basis (the first string being coined by someone who is not even in NASA¹), for some reason anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling.
With the last electrons in his batteries, the last few watts - the lander finally got a stable connection back, could then create a chatgpt3 account and use the API to express his last wishes on Twitter.
Oh wow I coincidentally posted something about the same XKCD strip in my reply to the person above, but have never come across these versions before, thank you!
Tangent: HN needs a "relevant links" comment category, for all the people that post these (helpful?) alternate links, or links to past HN discussions, etc
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 36.3 ms ] thread¹ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-w... ² https://xkcd.com/695/
That’s why they do it; that’s how they get you :)
https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_appar...
https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
I think it's adorable.