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NASA apparently builds in onion cutting features in all of their space robots, after Opportunity’s “my battery is getting low and it’s getting dark”.
This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
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.
5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
Never been a fan of the 'NASA social media guy pretending to be an inanimate object to evoke pathos' schtick.
Humans have been doing that since the first prehistoric man sharpened the first spear from a tree branch, looked at it, and thought "she's a beaut!"

I think it's adorable.