Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Mars Cartoon

Tags: art, science fiction, space exploration
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  • 4 comments
wcg

wcg

February 1 2010, 03:27:17 UTC 11 years ago

As I've mentioned to several others, she wouldn't want to come back to Earth. Spirit was built for Mars. Mars is her home. She got to rove for 20 times her original design lifetime, and she still gets to be an observing platform. She may be wistful that she can't drive around anymore, but I sincerely doubt she feels the way the XKCD cartoon suggests.
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

February 1 2010, 03:33:16 UTC 11 years ago

*I* wouldn't want to leave Mars.

I still think the cartoon has high impact.

Maybe someone should do a cartoon of Spirit romancing Mars (the god) on Mars (the planet). Or something else more space-friendly.
ysabetwordsmith

Okay...

ysabetwordsmith

February 1 2010, 04:29:24 UTC 11 years ago

... being a poet rather than a cartoonist, I came up with this:
http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/955885.html
houseboatonstyx

houseboatonstyx

February 1 2010, 23:57:43 UTC 11 years ago

Tremendous impact -- the more so because the refrain does not fit the actual robot's design, so it's free-floating to attach to one's own memories.

My first thought of an antidote was a frame zoomed out, showing the big ship from Close Encounters rising over the horizon of Mars.

More realistic, two zoomed out frames. Both are like a security camera wall, lots of small screens surrounding the cartoon frame.

#1 shows a lot of people with sad faces
#2 scrolls down to show them holding happy dogs in their laps

The point being that we all ran to hug our own dogs, so the dogs got some benefit out of this.