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A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped yet. The rover was designed for a two-year mission and 20 kilometers of driving. It’s now driven 35.5 kilometers, climbed over 327 meters up the side of a mountain, drilled 46 holes into Martian rock, and is currently running its fifth mission extension. The computer running all of this has 256 MB of RAM and a 200 MHz processor. Your AirPods have more computing power. Every command sent from Earth takes 14 minutes to arrive. Every photo sent back takes the same 14 minutes. When Curiosity drills into a rock, the team in Pasadena won’t know if it worked for half an hour. They’ve been operating on that delay, every single day, for 4,846 Martian sols. The power source is 10.6 pounds of plutonium-238 generating about 110 watts. Less than a ceiling fan. It will keep producing electricity for decades because the half-life of Pu-238 is 87.7 years. The rover will run out of moving parts before it runs out of power. And those wheels. Machined from single blocks of aluminum, 0.75 millimeters thick. Half a dime. JPL watched them get shredded by Martian rock starting in 2013, rerouted the entire mission path, taught the rover to drive backwards, and kept going. The wheels look like they lost a fight with a can opener. The rover is still climbing a mountain. Every iPhone you’ve owned since 2012 is in a landfill. Curiosity is on Mars, 140 million miles from the nearest repair shop, running on a ceiling fan’s worth of nuclear power, sending data through a 14-minute time delay, on shredded wheels, doing geology that rewrites what we know about whether life ever existed somewhere other than Earth. We built that. With 0.01% of the federal budget.

FD3S RX-7 🎌🤍

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Need more positive vibes on the timeline, holy hell. Send rx7/rx8 pictures and kitties please!:)

This kid rolls up to a wing stand, buys 3 wings, gives an honest review, then rides off into the sunset. This is what being a kid is about.

@MathRockSucked Tf hahahahahaha

time to hop on destiny 2 the hit video game by bungie ttv/mathrocksucks

@CodyChaSsE I can feel the thinning already

@currentlynick wishing us the best bro 🤣

fuck

Art Garfunkel at 80 years old, emotionally singing. “Scarborough Fair” — it’s so beautifully moving it will bring you to tears .

Once in a lifetime capture of Supercell storm formation. It's both beautiful and terrifying.

@EndlessGl Best guitar player NA

I wonder if I got this guy's main banned. 😅

🚨 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Due to a prior commitment to supporting Hail The Sun with Makari, Andy Cizek will not be able to join us on our upcoming run with He Is Legend. HOWEVER, we would not have taken this run if we didn’t have a monster of a fill in with Blair of Wolf and Bear. Those of you that caught the last week of the HTS comback tour know the man is a killer performer in his own right, the rest of you can see for yourself in the second slide. We are honored to be sharin the stage together again, and wish Andy the best of luck on the Makari run! And now a word from the man himself: Hey Birds fam! Andy here. While I wish I could rock out with you all on this tour, I am extremely stoked that my friend Blair will be stepping up in my absence. Blair is one of the most prolific vocalists I’ve had the pleasure of working with, and I have no doubt he will absolutely crush it on this run. Rest assured, I will be back in action with the band soon with new music, tours, and more chaos. See you all very soon 🙏

@yasua3f7 Montego blue, blacked out everything else efini!

#あなたの愛車は何色の何 ブリリアントブラック（A3F) FD3S RX-7 パール無しの純黒

@AntoricoSucks @Wingmeals Only kindled could with rampage and kill clip active

@Wingmeals Reminder kill clip does not shift ttk for some reason, 140s/150s have never 2 tapped for some reason (idc about mag howl) but this is ok

People were calling this perk ass btw 😭

@ArchaicMachine @TunerScene Brother. I know. I had one shipped for me. 1993 type r montego blue with 60k on it for $12,500. Parents said I had to sell my accord to get that one and I couldn’t do it in time. Now I weep every other day

@currentlynick @TunerScene Fuck man. FDs were going for like $13k when I got out of high school. Crazy.

What's your dream car?

@mokio789 Congratulations!!!!!

今日でFDのローンが終わりました！！ 6年長かった〜😭 これでようやく100%自分のものに！

@five_m_fd3s Stunning. So perfect! 😭

#私の愛車のグレード TYPE-RS 足もシートも変えたしRS装備はファイナルくらいしか残ってない

@CHIBITAFD3S1307 So friggen perfect!

#私の愛車のグレード タイプRバサースト 最終型である6型 H14年式

@2Calico Thinking the same thing right now hahaha

Paddy’s gonna be Chris Benoit levels of CTE in the future this is ridiculous