When Love Was Found…

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

“He would go out to Boston and if you live in Springfield you have to travel an hour and a half to get to any legitimate competition, and he would always have a target on his back. We have so much pride in the 413. So much. That’s our area. Like Frank, Keith, John, myself. We train together. There’s no need for Ryan to go outside of Western Mass to train in the summer and get better, and we’ve proven it across the board with all of our guys.” John says that where they come from has as much to do with their success as what they’ve put into it. “There’s six pros that are in the gym and on the ice with him every single day and from a personal standpoint I try to be a good role model and show him the habits that guys taught me when I was that age. But him being able to be around those types of players on a daily basis is a pretty cool thing for him,” John said. “I don’t think every kid gets the ability to do that with where they’re from, but Western Mass is a pretty special place.”