Corey S PowellDec 20, 2022
The demise of NASA's InSight lander on Mars reminds me of the the most heart-wrenching depiction of a (real) robot on another world. This #xkcd comic gets me every time. https://xkcd.com/695/ #Mars #InSight #mortality
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@coreyspowell have you seen Silent Running?

The final scene breaks me

IMDb: : Silent Running
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

Lautlos im Weltraum (1972) - IMDb

Lautlos im Weltraum: Directed by Douglas Trumbull. With Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint. In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

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