If you’re so inundated with influencer selfie after influencer selfie on your Instagram timeline that you’d like to chuck your phone into space and never see it again, we have bad news for you. Things aren’t going to be any better on another planet, nor in the future.
How do we know? Because NASA’s Perseverance rover recently stretched out its robotic arm, which had a camera attached, in order to take a selfie with the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. The selfie was actually an amalgamation of 62 separate images that were sequenced together. And then (of course) NASA had to announce the selfie-taking accomplishment on Twitter.
Two bots, one selfie. Greetings from Jezero Crater, where I’ve taken my first selfie of the mission. I’m also watching the #MarsHelicopter Ingenuity as it gets ready for its first flight in a few days. Daring mighty things indeed.
Images: https://t.co/owLX2LaK52 pic.twitter.com/rTxDNK69rs
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) April 7, 2021
Twitter users were less than impressed.
All rocks and sand waste of money
— chaitanyaچائے (@chaitudeveloper) April 7, 2021
why cant the money be put into stimulus checks rather than dumb space stuff
— you know LewanGOALski (inactive for now) (@jan_46488839) April 7, 2021
What’s taking so long. Fly that thing already and show us the aliens.
— Prisoner Donald J Trump (@Notabit) April 7, 2021
This isn’t the first time a space bot has photographed itself. The Curiosity Mars rover has also been known to indulge in a selfie. Given the way the world is going, we’ll soon be flooded with self-congratulatory pics from robotic posers for decades to come…
Cover Photo: NASA
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