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Percy the Mars Rover Profile picture
@PercyRover
Sep 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
🎶 You say...

That Mars is old news and now
Venus is where you should search

For LIIIIIIIFE...

Over dried Martian streams you
Would choose MIT’s new research 🎵
🎼 I’m so sad...

I’m still up in space and my
Landing is still months away

Phosphine’s a FAAAAAD...

I’ll wait out the hype and still
Be here with my skycraaaane... 🎵
🎼 You’ll be back...
That’s the plan

I’ve got holes to drill
And rocks to scan

You’ll be back!
Make me proud

Choose Martian craters
Over Venusian clouds 🎵
🎶 Oceans dry
Moons will FALLLLL

And with science
We can see it all...

And when push comes to shove...
I will send my Martian robot army
To remind you of my love 😘 🎶

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Feb 26, 2021
Certain [COUGH.exe] people out there want you to believe that traveling to space and seeding human civilization elsewhere is a solution to the existential threats to humanity.

As if those problems will magically vanish when you’re on Mars, Ganymede, or cualquier otro lugar.
They’ll come up with all sorts of reasons for why “making life multi-planetary” is a necessary crusade.

The sun will destroy the Earth, climate change, etc.

This is all to avoid saying the quiet part out loud: “I have billions of dollars and I want to go to Mars cuz I can.”
Climate change is a problem, but in case you haven’t noticed, rockets burn a LOT of fuel, and CERTAIN PEOPLE want to launch thousands of rockets to build Mars cities.

That’s not fixing the problem, that’s putting broken on broken and trying to call it something different.
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Feb 20, 2021
After big events like my Pu238-powered self landing on Mars, there are usually critics.

I saw a hashtag arguing that we should spend money on other social programs instead of NASA.

Funny thing is I sort of agree. But before JPL reboots me let me explain...

*VROOM VROOM* THREAD
This is nothing new. This conversation dates back to when Gil Scott-Heron wrote "Whitey on the Moon," while a NASA workforce of predominantly white men were sending other white men to the Sea of Tranquility while Black and minority communities were marginalized.
There are plenty of advancements from the space program that benefited society, but at the time did that REALLY make a difference when you're being evicted from your home? Or if you can't afford to feed your children?

ESPECIALLY when the NASA photoshoots looked like this:
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Feb 18, 2021
Well fam, this is it. Seven months of space travel, making terrible jokes, and the occasional *vroom* have led us here.

Anything could happen, I could land safely, I might not, I could land safely and suddenly be swallowed by Shai-Hulud the Great Maker.

So here's some thoughts.
Space travel has a unique ability to join everyone together.

We may come from different places, but on the cosmic scale, we all are sharing the same mote of dust suspended on a sunbeam.

We're all made of the same star stuff.
A great doctor once said, "always TRY to be nice, but NEVER FAIL to be kind."

It doesn't matter your education level, your background, or whether you think pineapple belongs on pizza (it does btw)

Everyone deserves to have their basic humanity recognized.
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