Sometimes a space robot can be pretty magnificent.
Posts tagged "NASA"
A big tip of the hat to the team that built the Opportunity rover. Their little space robot was only supposed to survive for 90 days but here is it 9 yearslater and it is still going strong. If I weren’t so impressed I’d be terrified by the though of unstoppable space robots.
Prints available for $20 and up here: http://society6.com/AndyKelly/Creative-History—January-25-2004
Quite glad these spike-covered robots are being sent far away to Mars where they can’t harm humankind.
So relieved that the New Year’s message from Curiosity was not “DESTROY ALL HUMANS!”
The Mars Curiosity rover meets the facehugger in “Cool Things to Find” a video by Cinesaurus.
Yet another sign that humankind’s time on this Earth is rapidly drawing to a close: TIME has nominated the Curiosity rover to be its “person” of the year!
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“I don’t want to replace the humans in space with robots. But I think it’s a good way to start. Because we do have robots and the robots are getting much better, while the humans are evolving much more slowly. Let’s not do humans or robots, lets work together.”
Geoffrey Landis, NASA engineer (via Wired.com)
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Curiosity may one day return to Earth, says NASA boss
Preparing now for an invasion by atomic-powered robots from Mars.
What happens when an atomic-powered robot on Mars fires it’s laser.
One-ton, atomic powered robot on Mars turns out to also be a bit of a litterbug.
