Comments on: The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and a squirrel and a robot http://blogs.crikey.com.au/firstblog/2008/11/11/the-giant-panda-ailuropoda-melanoleuca-and-a-squirrel-and-a-robot/ Firstdogonthemoon presents the Animal of the Day Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:46:01 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Stilgherrian http://blogs.crikey.com.au/firstblog/2008/11/11/the-giant-panda-ailuropoda-melanoleuca-and-a-squirrel-and-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Stilgherrian Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:32:15 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/firstblog/?p=554#comment-115 Welcome to the future. I woke up one morning and not only was there a human-created robot on Mars, but it was tweeting on Twitter and telling me it had found water. While I sat drinking a coffee. Today it stopped tweeting. It said "01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3", and I said "01001111 01110101 01110100 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110". I shed a tear. Anyone who can't experience the emotional impact of exploring another goddam planet is a waste of carbon atoms. Welcome to the future. I woke up one morning and not only was there a human-created robot on Mars, but it was tweeting on Twitter and telling me it had found water. While I sat drinking a coffee.

Today it stopped tweeting. It said “01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3″, and I said “01001111 01110101 01110100 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110″.

I shed a tear.

Anyone who can’t experience the emotional impact of exploring another goddam planet is a waste of carbon atoms.

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