# The Little Rover That Could **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/the-little-rover-that-could/2006 "2024-11-06T23:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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In honor of _Opportunity_, with which we have finally lost contact, a relinking to [this particular piece](https://eldraeverse.com/2015/10/07/the-talentarian/). Farewell, bold explorer, and may we treat you as kindly when Mars is finally colonized. * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2019/02/13/the-little-rover-that-could](https://eldraeverse.com/2019/02/13/the-little-rover-that-could) ---
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**Comments migrated from WordPress:** > [@Buggy \ 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’. ---
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