"my battery is low and it's getting dark" – were never sent from Mars

https://spacedaily.com/b-the-opportunity-rovers-famous-last-words-my-battery-is-low-and-its-getting-dark-were-never-actually-sent-from-mars-the-real-story-of-where-that-sentence-came-from-is-stranger/

Comments

stackghostMay 27, 2026, 6:00 AM
>Here is the strange part. Knowing the truth doesn’t drain the emotion from the story. It relocates it.

>The poetry was never in the rover. The poetry was in us.

Generative AI has absolutely destroyed the web.

senMay 27, 2026, 7:21 AM
This is the sloppiest slop that has slopped onto HN in a while.

The amount of this type of crap getting upvoted lately makes me think HN is probably getting a bot-vote problem like reddit has. I can’t imagine HN members actually upvoting this obvious AI slop?