Detroit: Become Human: In the future, humans will treat robots as subhuman objects despite robots looking and acting incredibly humanlike with personalities and independent thoughts of their own.
The entire world when a robot in space died: *making fanart and crying R.I.P. Oppy you beautiful little space explorer*
lol
Same thing happened with a Japanese satellite a few years ago. Just before it finally died, they turned it around to face earth for the first time so it could see the place it was helping and people were bawling their eyes out.
Wtf you can’t do that to my heart
Humans will form emotional attachments to literally anything
We will, it’s true! In this case, though, the attachment is already built-in because we MADE these space explorers to do what we, as humans, cannot.
They spend their entire lives in the cold, airless expanse of space, sending us back pictures and stories the same way our friends do on WhatsApp.
The Mars rovers are the first generation of astronauts to carve a little human mark on another planet. Sending them there and keeping them going took years and years of hard work down here on Earth. They’re pretty special.
white people will cry over the death of a robot but will totally ignore the murder of an African American man who got shot by the police while he was sleeping.
His name was Willie McCoy and he was only 20.
I could say the same thing about trans people killed but you don’t see me doing that. Race isn’t the problem here. People cared about the rover because of the images it sent us and the personality it seemed to have.
What happened to the young man was a tragedy, really. But I didn’t even know about it. I hardly watch the news and haven’t seen any articles about it here or on Facebook so…
I don’t usually say stuff like this so I’m not made out to be a racist. I don’t care what someone’s race is, honestly.
What happens to people of color and queer people in this world really is fucked up, but comparing it to the rover isn’t going to change anything or make it better.
Making fun of people who were sad about the rover is stupid, they aren’t comparable. One is a life, one is a machine, they just don’t go together.
What would be comparable is when a white person’s death goes viral but a black person’s death does not, that’s a real injustice.
This post is everywhere and it’s pissing me off because making people feel bad because of their race and what their passions are and what affects them is complete bullshit. It’s not just white people who are sad about the rover. Just like it’s not just black people who are sad about the deaths of other people of color.
So just stop with this, it doesn’t make sense and isn’t even comparable.
@bentonthefoxkin As an LGBT person of color, I totally agree. I don’t think the post solves the issue of racial disparities and injustices and only creates more division between us. Like you said, the Rover meant so much to other individuals, but that shouldn’t be invalidated because of the death of Willie McCoy. It is not at all okay that McCoy was killed in his sleep, but it doesn’t help to take someone’s interests and adoration for something and reject it because of an assumption.
Detroit: Become Human: In the future, humans will treat robots as subhuman objects despite robots looking and acting incredibly humanlike with personalities and independent thoughts of their own.
The entire world when a robot in space died: *making fanart and crying R.I.P. Oppy you beautiful little space explorer*
lol
Same thing happened with a Japanese satellite a few years ago. Just before it finally died, they turned it around to face earth for the first time so it could see the place it was helping and people were bawling their eyes out.
Wtf you can’t do that to my heart
Humans will form emotional attachments to literally anything
“My battery is low and it is getting dark” weren’t Oppy’s literal last words, her last message to earth was a readout of her battery power and light sensor readings, something that I think is nonetheless sad. But what I find astounding is we’ve translated that last message into language that is so poetic and humane, and IMO that speaks powerfully of the lengths that human empathy can reach. I really think that says something beautiful, and I need to go hug my Roomba.
you’ve heard of: getting emotionally attached to your roomba
now get ready for: genuinely mourning the mars rover like a deceased loved one
SHE SERVED MANKIND FOR SO MANY YEARS AND NOW SHE’S JUST LAYING UP THERE COLD AND ALONE UNDER A COVER OF DUST TAKEN FROM US BY A SPACE STORM AND SHE WILL NOT BE GIVEN A PROPER RESTING PLACE UNTIL HUMANS REACH MARS AND RETRIEVE HER
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