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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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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

My battery is low and it's getting dark

[–] mr_robot2938@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] cynar@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] mr_robot2938@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah science/scientists et al.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

Carefully, he’s a hero

[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

The Jawas will probably pick it up some day.

[–] Octospider@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Octospider can have a little dream, as a treat.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

c3po and r2 are wandering away from it

[–] Harpsist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Did it not live YEARS past its expected time?

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

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 2 years 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?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it is it's bloody working

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

πŸ˜†πŸ‘Œ that's freaking good.

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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