I Dont Know What Im Doing

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.

talking with @kchzndrvh and came up with this together! rumi's balcony is covered in a forest of plants, and from one of the artists' visual development sketches, celine's home has a full on garden, so: headcanon that rumi inherited a love of plants and gardening from celine.

rumi's instagram is at least 30% posts of just plants like "I got this handsome boy yesterday! It's a ficus umbellata, native to western Africa. :) #myficus"

they have staff who do the housecleaning but rumi writes out very specific page-long care instructions for each of the plants when they're on tour. she names the plants too.

after every world tour she does an IG livestream of how her plants have been doing since she last saw them 4 months ago, and does a little Q&A, but she tells her mods to only show her the questions about the plants.

it's 80% "boring" leaf-only plants, and some of those things that only flower like once every few years at midnight for 2 hours. one of them is expected to flower only when the group is in Europe and she barely resists rescheduling just bc she's so professional. but she gets bobby to set up a livestream of the plant, and the fans start watching it too... #herkadupul

and then. it flowers for those 2 hours. when they're in the middle of a concert.

after the concert: