Aug 5 – 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthday to Curiosity

Re:Aug 5 – 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthda... by sandworm101 on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:52PM (#32360317)

I'd put the voyager probes as more lonely. Not to mention any number of defunct spacecraft that are still operating out there. They don't have off switches. Somewhere out there is a space probe periodically trying to phone home only to discover we are no longer listening.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/843493304/long-lost-u-s-milit...

""The oldest one I've seen is Transit 5B-5. And it launched in 1965," he says, referring to a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy navigation satellite that still circles the Earth in a polar orbit, long forgotten by all but a few amateurs interested in hearing it "sing" as it passes overhead."

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Re:Aug 5 – 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthda... by samschooler on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:59PM (#32360410)

This reminds me of the article "What football will look like in 17776?" a short story about football from the perspective of space probes. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

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Re:Aug 5 – 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthda... by adjagu on Sunday August 07, 2022 @02:10AM (#32374285)

Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen this before and enjoyed it very much.

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