Humanity Leaves Its Mark On Mars
Well, this happened:
In a photo of Curiosity’s track patterns, published on the robotics section of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory site, the Mars rover appears to have traced out a very phallic design on the Red Planet’s dusty surface.
The rover’s picture went viral after being posted to Reddit’s r/funny subreddit page Tuesday, earning close to 40,000 “upvotes” in a matter of a few hours. According to The Huffington Post UK, NASA’s website crashed due to increased traffic as word of the “drawing” spread.
Draw your own conclusions.
This is a bad sign that the robots are gaining intelligence. Though at least they have only reached the level of horny teenaged boys. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Alternative headline: “Mars Rover Discovers Red Planet is Similar to an Airport Restroom.”
Well, that’s what Mars gets for passing out drunk at a party.
I don’t know what’s wrong with you all. It looks like Jesus to me!
It won’t last…. Mars has dust storms.
Do the tracks leading from the camera represent the grasping hands of a Chinese woman?
Rule 34 of the Internet: there are no exceptions, including for AI.
NASA has been posting amazing space-related photos to the web essentially since the web was invented: the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, which launched in 1995, is probably one of the oldest continuously-operating websites out there. And with all those thousands of breathtaking photos, this is the one that’s so popular that it crashes their servers.
I don’t know whether to be overwhelmingly amused or deeply depressed.
I sense that Howard Wolowitz is somehow behind this…