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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Curiosity isn’t a little robot.

It’s the size of a small car…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There are different scales for big and small. In comparison to everything Curiosity was associated with (rockets, planets) it was tiny

[–] Moops 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what you took from this?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s annoying me because that commenter is using a diminutive to try and anthropomorphise a robot.

You can anthropomorphise it but at least have a basic understanding of the dimensions of the thing you’re trying to make cute.

[–] WorkIsSlow 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your mom is the size of a small car, but I still think she's cute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This from the "we" who called Higgs-Boson the blasphemous gd particle but make the joke more popular as the misunderstood "god particle" that eventually became most conceptualized as "the God particle?

[–] Moops 1 points 2 months ago

I mean, on the cosmic scale that's the context for the story, both cars and robots are tiny ;) I'm sure the black hole will think they're cute before gobbling them up.