Friday, January 29, 2010

Bon Chance, Spirit

xkcd's poor anthropomorphized Spirit Mars rover wonders when it will get to go home:
xkcd Spirt cartoon. Click here to see the whole thing.

Spirit's fate is a good metaphor for the space program, which did everything we asked of it and then was largely abandoned by people who, it would seem, just don't give a crap about anything that doesn't benefit them directly right now.

Click on the picture to be taken to xkcd to see the full comic, plus the clever secret message.


1 comment:

Dana Hunter said...

Tugs at the heart strings, that does.