"who am i without you?"

this post is like 11 years old

hey

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.

walten files ep2: jack is bon

walten files ep3: jack is for sure bon

walten files ep4: jack is bon theory found dead in a ditch and shot 47 times

“I’ve been talking to an angel”

1: aroace-ryland-grace’s phm google drive, including a folder of rocky screenshots

2. rocky 3-d model poses (if you follow the insta link it takes you to the page for one of his character designers where i think some more images of the model may exist?? i, however, am too lazy to leave tumblr)

4. close up images of his hands + xenonite weaving tools !!! (i think about this one Often. the xenonite tools. ough) this one also has links to insta pages of various character designers.

5. video from james ortiz’s instagram of the rocketeers testing out the rocky puppet’s hands (including the freaky crab claw of deleted scene fame)

6. gifs of the rocketeers piloting various rocky puppets (i find this one helpful because, unlike the movie, here we get to see our glorious guy in good lighting and not stuck behind a sparkly xenonite wall)

7. rocky detail gifs (closeups of matestone, carvings, xenonite weaving)

8. rocky movement gifs (has one in particular im a huge fan of where he does a spin. also has him climbing, in the ball, and ofc, more xenonite weaving. also one of the few shots of the crab leg that made it into the movie)

the vivisection jokes have to get old at some point right

I think it'd be hilarious if Pavitr was unintentionally savage when he first met Hobie.

Based completely off of this post.

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