The lonely little Mars rover sang '[i]Happy Birthday[/i] to itself...

[warrior queen]

... and now NASA is apparently in breach of copyright!
But seriously.... how sad is that? The lonely robot had to sing its own birthday song!
I teared a little

And how fucking stupid that someone complained of copyright infringement!
FFS - since when does copyright extend to another planet?
Idiots

 

[warrior queen]

And.... I've just noticed you can't put a thread title into Italics
Oops.

 

[girlsmiley]

7 Ways NASA Making the Mars Rover Sing Itself "Happy Birthday" Is Sad

1. Singing "Happy Birthday" to yourself is the best possible way of reminding yourself that you are absolutely, incontrovertibly, 100 percent ALONE.

2. The song "Happy Birthday" is notoriously protected by the strictest of copyright law. Someone's getting sued.

3. A Martian year is longer than an Earth year. It wasn't even technically the right day.

4. This is what NASA decides to work on instead of oh, I don't know, figuring out how to get Curiosity back home so that it doesn't spend eternity rusting on a strange foreign planet.

5. No one in that room is even pretending to listen to Curiosity's painfully sad attempt at birthday cheer. There is nary a balloon, banner, or stray string of confetti anywhere. If you're going to humiliate a baby robot, the least you can do is feign some modicum of care. Or you know, look up from your computer.

6. The only water we'll ever find on Mars will be Curiosity's tears.

7. The last note was sharp.

I don't know why the link... Doesn't matter.

 

[warrior queen]

I don't know why the link... Doesn't matter.

But it's cute, so..... well done!

 

[Colonel Hogan]

3. A Martian year is longer than an Earth year. It wasn't even technically the right day.

Of course it was the right day. Don't be ridiculous. One doesn't reference anniversaries from where that person happens to be at the moment, but from the original time and place where the event of origin occurred.

If you were born in Chicago at 10 p.m. on August 10, 1980, it was already August 11 in the 17 time zones east of the continental United States up to the International Date Line. If you wanted to celebrate your 30th birthday in Athens, Greece at the precise time of your birth, on what date and time would you celebrate?

You don't have to calculate anything or know what time zone Athens is in. Just wait until it's 10 p.m. August 10, 2010 in Chicago. Whatever time it thus happens to be at that moment on August 11 in Athens will be the appropriate time to party on.

The same holds true if you happened to be on Mars instead of Athens. Now's the time! Start the music. Cue the girl inside the cake.

Classical physicists are going to object to my simplistic formula and cite the space/time differential affects for travelers to Mars relative to Earthbound humans, but Mars is still close enough and speeds in transit low enough for those affects to be negligible.

Astronauts who went to the moon returned to Earth approximately four or five seconds younger than those of us who remained behind. So what? No big deal.

 

[girlsmiley]

Morning, Colonel. Or is it afternoon?

Quick answer: Curiosity was born on Mars.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Morning, Colonel. Or is it afternoon?

Quick answer: Curiosity was born on Mars.

If NASA is using the moment Curiosity began transmitting from Mars as its moment of birth and then using Earth years to mark that occasion, then, yes, I admit that technically, they're "doing it wrong."

I would have thought that they would have started keeping time from liftoff and included the many months of transit to Mars. But maybe they're just likening that to the slide down the birth canal.

Verdict: Your points based on a ruling from the judges.

 

[warrior queen]

If NASA is using the moment Curiosity began transmitting from Mars as its moment of birth and then using Earth years to mark that occasion, then, yes, I admit that technically, they're "doing it wrong."

I would have thought that they would have started keeping time from liftoff and included the many months of transit to Mars. But maybe they're just likening that to the slide down the birth canal.

Verdict: Your points based on a ruling from the judges.

As a woman, I object to the visuals prompted by this post.
I also crossed my legs.

 

[KingOrfeo]

But seriously.... how sad is that? The lonely robot had to sing its own birthday song!
I teared a little

It gets worse.

 

[warrior queen]

It gets worse.

Aaawwww.... now I am really sad.
Poor little robot, all lonely and now going a little insane

Funny as fuck though, so I giggled whilst crying

 

[girlsmiley]

If NASA is using the moment Curiosity began transmitting from Mars as its moment of birth and then using Earth years to mark that occasion, then, yes, I admit that technically, they're "doing it wrong."

I would have thought that they would have started keeping time from liftoff and included the many months of transit to Mars. But maybe they're just likening that to the slide down the birth canal.

Verdict: Your points based on a ruling from the judges.

Sorry, my phone died!

Wait. I get points?

Win.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

What a cute little guy!!

"That's one small step for ........oooops!"