Wave (sometimes) Sketches

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
gentil-minou
labelleizzy:
“siawrites:
“ shadows-ember:
“ thebaconsandwichofregret:
“ weepingdildo:
“ Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
”
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the...
weepingdildo

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

thebaconsandwichofregret

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

shadows-ember

This is humanity

siawrites

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

labelleizzy

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

science wins
awakefor48hours
miraculous ladybug mlb ml s5 spoilers polls lmaoo these all happened though?? this show is insane
charlesoberonn
charlesoberonn

Which path should he choose?

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The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?

moonimbued

he should wander away and have a picnic while he thinks about what path to choose

charlesoberonn

Great idea! But where should he have the picnic?

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Under the tree, or under the old fort?

acatdisguisedasahuman

By the sea, so he can enjoy the sound of the waves

charlesoberonn

A lovely choice!

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Should he build a sandcastle to pass the time? Or perhaps go fishing?

cynicallyaestetic

Perhaps he could collect shells he finds interesting

charlesoberonn

Sounds fun!

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Which shell should he pick up?

sourjen

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This one

charlesoberonn

That's not a shell, it's a tiny earpiece.

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Should he listen to music? Or to the mysterious pre-recorded message?

sar-kalu

He should give it back to the crab in the largest shell, they thought they had lost their wave-pod and are grateful he found it!

charlesoberonn

The crab wants to give a gift in return.

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Should he accept the gift of power, or the gift of knowledge?

sunw00d

the gift of friendship :)

charlesoberonn

Friendship acquired!

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Should they celebrate with pizza or ice cream?

valentineish

The crab friend cannot eat either of those! Let's split a nice seaweed salad instead. :)

charlesoberonn

So many options!

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Should they get tossed salad, wiggly salad, or spiky salad?

frescopino

Seasar salad

charlesoberonn

Nothing beats getting it straight from the source

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Should they use scissors or claws to cut the seaweed?

somethingmissingthiswaycomes

What about that sword in the first panel?

charlesoberonn

The circle is complete.

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Through choices, friendship, and salad, he found his way to the path of the warrior. But he won't walk it alone.

Their path is just beginning, but this story is over.

Thank you to everyone who participated!

haltraveler

This is somehow both the epitome and antithesis of "yes, and" and it FASCINATES me

charlesoberonn

"No, and"