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Lt Gen Panda
17115 Followers
Lt Gen Panda
17115 Followers
misslindadeeAug 3, 2010
I LOVE Robots!
daeusAug 4, 2010
Until the skynet Epoch then it gets a little awkward
kidviciousAug 4, 2010
Considering the possibility that you are one, that's not too surprising.
frostbytAug 3, 2010
Oh great. Good job there. Millions of tax payers money going to a robot that tweets from space.
People starving on earth but hay let's put a robot into space that uses a web service no one cares about. Great plan there NASA. Next thing they will want to do is spend billions sending someone to Mars.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
tiakAug 3, 2010
Yes, millions of tax payers' money, not 1/50 of one guy's salary.
confoundedjoeAug 4, 2010
Because that is all he does. If that was really all they wanted they would probably just build an Arduino board to do that. This is simply a way to take something that is useful and make it more so by using it to drive interest in the space program.
araytaAug 4, 2010
"The goal is to build a robot that can help astronauts with their daily tasks, especially those that are repetitive or especially dangerous. A humanoid robot will not require a redesign of interfaces and tools that are already in place for the space station's carbon-based hominid residents."
Of course, if you read the article you would have already known that.
bizwiz2Aug 3, 2010
Hold it. I feel a big fat so what coming on.
araytaAug 4, 2010
What?
anothersoldierAug 3, 2010
f**k off !
mcnichsAug 3, 2010
If this robot was smart, he'd use that ability to destroy Twitter, thus saving humanity from its uselessness.
godsbongAug 4, 2010
Or will evolve into Skynet and destroy humanity, either way somethings going to be destroyed.
7king7kingAug 4, 2010
What if Twitter is down with that Whale logo when the bot tweets? Owned?!
firecellAug 4, 2010
The robot will malfunction and blow up.
themadmuleAug 4, 2010
First tweet: s**t, it's boring up here.
benroyAug 4, 2010
I'm so f**king sick of twitter. I hate that I have to make room in my brain for such a stupid word.
spacem00seAug 4, 2010
Having a robot tweet from space with an iPhone has nothing to do with science. This is completely retarded.
confoundedjoeAug 4, 2010
Without the tweeting factor almost no one would know about it and having people follow it keeps it in their minds which keeps NASA in their minds and thus keeps science in their minds.
uknowwhoibeAug 4, 2010
Bull. The only people who know about it, are the ones that hate Twitter already.
firecellAug 4, 2010
This seems like a desperate attempt on NASA's part to try and appear hip and cool. Really it just makes them look sad and outdated.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
Wow, this is groundbreaking. It's not like we've had robots transmitting small packets of data to us from space for decades already. Then again, it's always been useful data. This is Twitter. Using frivilous social networking tools from space clearly denotes a new level of human outreach to the stars.
fungowskiAug 4, 2010
it'll probably have a facebook page too, with thousands of friends. so a million years from now some alien from andromeda will open this puppy up and find thousands upon thousands of farmville updates, robot unicorn high scores, and invitations to 30th birthday parties
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
"Hilarious!"
michaelgurbiszAug 4, 2010
Something like this???
1000111110101011111011101110101011111101110101010111000000000011101101 :)
araytaAug 4, 2010
That's no robot, that's Daft Punk.
Silly astronauts.
narfboy93Aug 4, 2010
LOLZ, TOTALLY THOUGHT I SEEN AN ALIEN. #SRSLY
mannyyAug 4, 2010
He's holding the iphone in the wrong position!
alienmushroomAug 4, 2010
Here goes the space paparazzi.
culytAug 4, 2010
Is the Robot itself tweeting from space or a ground control team running it from a N.A.S.A. space centre on Earth?
There was an actual tweet sent from space recentishly (although there are quite a few astronauts that had previously sent down a message using other communication methods that was then transcribed).
In any case, for the anti-twitter people it's important that N.A.S.A. connect with the general population that are onto it. It can make them interested in space and allow the .gov to give them a bigger budget. It's good they understand this.
grantmoore3dAug 4, 2010
I'm writing it a tweet, but I feel stupid asking a robot questions knowing it's just some guy answering them.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
Nice. Twitter in space will add whole new dimension to the global twitter movement tracker:
http://www.frequency.com/video/movement-based/139374
garmonbozziaAug 4, 2010
Can it sing "Daisy Bell?"
mountain1488Aug 4, 2010
Totally thought this was an Onion article.
liam2012Aug 4, 2010
This tweet cost millions of dollars in tax dollars to send.
maildaveAug 4, 2010
@AstroRobonaut just ousted Voyager as the mayor of OuterSpace on @Foursquare!
jakyastikAug 4, 2010
If robots can just save an astronauts' lives, they're enough.