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As the user experience designer, this “singing“ of electronics, and other such devices has been prevalent for the last decade or so. It’s an attempt to humanize the electronic devices we interact with every day. I question its effectiveness or validity, but, nonetheless, it has become extremely popular in both the medical device field and the field of home appliances. Buying an LG or a Samsung appliance, and it will, very annoyingly, play little songs when it’s done doing whatever it does.
I find this a particularly interesting emergent cultural application of anthropomorphism to everyday objects. I wonder how it will progress over the next decade or so.
It seems a better expenditure than flinging cars into outer space, but that’s just me. 🤷
If Elon Musk wanted to use his company to be a dipshit and fling his car into space, why not?
The EPA and other regulators could control them better, but whatever ventures they choose to make are their own dumb choices. The only ways their dumb PR project intersects with anything NASA related is theyre both doing space things and NASA happens to give them contracts (which is how they’re able to afford to launch a car into space as a PR stunt).
If you like this and haven’t seen “Good Night, Oppy” you should go do that right now.
A documentary, sounds boring.
I wonder if they pitch-corrected it so it plays correctly in the Martian atmosphere…
If that’s not both sad and happy, then why am I reading this through tears?
Incoming copyright lawsuit in 3, 2, 1…
Curiosity isn’t a little robot.
It’s the size of a small car…
That’s what you took from this?
It’s annoying me because that commenter is using a diminutive to try and anthropomorphise a robot.
You can anthropomorphise it but at least have a basic understanding of the dimensions of the thing you’re trying to make cute.
Your mom is the size of a small car, but I still think she’s cute.
This from the “we” who called Higgs-Boson the blasphemous gd particle but make the joke more popular as the misunderstood “god particle” that eventually became most conceptualized as "the God particle?
I mean, on the cosmic scale that’s the context for the story, both cars and robots are tiny ;) I’m sure the black hole will think they’re cute before gobbling them up.
