The Little Rover That Could

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In honor of Opportunity, with which we have finally lost contact, a relinking to this particular piece.

Farewell, bold explorer, and may we treat you as kindly when Mars is finally colonized.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2019/02/13/the-little-rover-that-could

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@Buggy <buggy1997123@yahoo.com> on 2019-02-13 15:22:04 wrote

It’s sad, but at the same time the rover isn’t really gone, per se. It’s still there, and it’ll stay there for quite a while. Certainly long enough for us to go dust it off at some point. I have no doubt we’ll get there in time to recover it intact.

It is a shame though that it probably won’t end up as anything more than a museum piece; I doubt it’s developed any sort of intelligence for us to uplift later on. We might not be quite as eager to reach space, but we did start quite a bit earlier, relative-levels-of-technology wise.

Though, it does strike me as odd that it took them 400-something years to rediscover the Talentarian. Or that it took 400-something years to invent sophont AI after almost accidentally-inventing it. Maybe I just missed a bit of emphasis on the ‘early’ part of ‘early signs’.