umělkyně v hladovění

a nad námi svítá

zapal si cígo

slunce tě vítá

mravenci v hlavě

krouží tam do kola

řekli "Nemysli tmavě."

a začali od znova

ztratili stopu

následují mě slepě

prý neběháme v kruhu

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.

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DAY 1 GREGSTOPHE WEEK 2025: musical

So I did this inspired by they both reach for the gun from Chicago as I know everyone and they’re granny’s were gonna do Les mis even though I do love it! Some ideas I had that I didn’t use people can take if they’re struggling (this is a drafted post from a few days ago so sorry if anyone’s did these I’m not copying):

Six: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

Rhps: Brad and Janet

Wicked: elphaba and Fiyero

So yeah

(Posting this in the uk time zone so sorry if it’s early or something)