Tumblr Post: Humans Get Curiosity Rover To Sing "Happy Birthday"

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Oct 12, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

It's dangerously easy to forget that amidst the steady procession of fails by human beings, that ultimately humans are capable of some miraculously uplifting things. In this case, brace yourself for all the good feels with this story about how some humans got the Curiosity rover to sing itself "happy birthday." Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this Tumblr thread about how magenta doesn't actually exist, and that it's just the brain doing its very best.

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    Smile - Sandra Tayler @SandraTayler Sometimes when I forget that humans are amazing, I think of curiosity singing Happy Birthday on Mars, and this response:
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    Font - thebaconsandwichofregret No guys you don't understand. 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
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    Font - a cake on Curiosity's birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room ful 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 place
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    Sky - copingcabana • 1y I think about this whenever people say Al or robots will doom humanity. We'll pack bond with anything. 1 11 Reply ...
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    Sky - Shauna13 • 1y S 2 Replies Makes me believe in the Martian story even more. If they go through that effort for a machine what would they do for people. 12 Reply ...
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    Sky - fastjeff • 1y I hope I'm alive long enough to see one of those in a museum on Earth. 1 Reply Reply •..
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