#space exploration robot

[manmishra]

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Love, Death & Robots - S1E7 - Beyond the Aquila Rift (2019)

[cheellart]

Cassini 🪐 Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study and capture the beauty of Saturn. She embarked on a great adventure and made many fascinating discoveries along her way. Until finally, with one last maneuver, she plunged into the gas giant and perished in a final, fatal embrace. She became one with her muse for an eternity. You can read more about the original Cassini’s journey here and here :)

[tea-cat-arts]

Actually, I hope Jiaoqiu stays blind (at least for a couple years in our time) and just bullies the Xianzhou alliance into inventing disability aids and treating disabled people better

[wyrdle]

More of that au where Shuji never joins kirijo group, and takuto becomes his cognitive pscience research partner

[scatterpatter]

So I’m new to megaman fandom and I’m not familiar with what you can and can’t ship can you tell me a bit about how the shipping works with the robot masters?

Anon this is a FASCINATING question and I'm actually super flattered you went to me for this- This is actually a really interesting question with a lot of nuance so like- I'm gonna give you the short answer with the widely accepted "you can't ship these", and under that I'll give a more detailed overview of how shipping tends to work and the nuances of robot relationships!

Disclaimer: I'm only going to talk about the Megaman Classic series. While I've dipped into the other Megaman series (like X, Battle Network, etc), I don't know enough about them to speak about them. Also! I only got into Megaman in 2023 so like- I of course can only speak for my OWN experience in fandom, I cannot speak for the fandom as a whole, and I don't have the fandom experience that someone who's been here much longer would have. Fandom evolves so I can only speak for what I've seen being in this fandom in the 2020s and whatever art/fics/etc I've found from years prior!

So the short answer is: Megaman Classic is full of mostly fictional robots. Ship whatever you want, don't let anyone tell you can/can't do. That being SAID, there are a few ships that are widely considered massive no-nos in the Megaman Classic fandom:

Mega/Rock x Roll, Mega/Rock x Proto/Blues, Roll x Proto/Blues, or any romantic variation of the three are widely considered no-nos due to most Classic media explicitly stating they're siblings, making those ships incestuous. ESPECIALLY Mega/Rock and Proto/Blues, I don't think there's a single Classic media that doesn't explicitly state they're brothers.

Dr. Light x any of Mega/Rock, Roll, and/or Proto/Blues is also considered a massive no due to Dr. Light being explicitly their father (or their father figure) in pretty much all Classic media as well, making it incestuous

Dr. Wily and/or Dr. Cossack x any of Mega/Rock, Roll, and or Proto/Blues is considered problematic too, but to a slightly lesser extent. It doesn't have the same incestuous undertones as the ships above, but considering Dr. Light is almost always considered their father, and Wily and Cossack are Light's colleagues... It'd be like having a relationship with your parent's best friend- not illegal, but widely considered creepy and weird.

You can ship any of these if you really want to, buuuut most people in the fandom will likely find you creepy and block you if you do, myself included.

As for any other ships- pretty much anything is on the table for what you can ship! Just employ the "don't be Fucking Weird" rule with it- I'll explain below in a bit more detail as to what the "don't be Fucking Weird" rule means but I think it's pretty self explanatory

ALRIGHT NUANCE OF ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS INFODUMP TIME

So the biggest thing about Megaman Classic is like. There are multiple different medias portraying the events of 20XX and they're all VASTLY different from each other. They will portray the robots with completely different relationships, ages, and personalities as each other.

I had QUITE the time early on in this fandom trying to figure out a consistent "age order" of the mm1 bots

(spoiler: There Is No Consistency)

A good example of this is: in Powered Up, Cutman is written as very child-like with a sibling-like relationship with most of the mm1 bots. In Ruby Spears, however, Cutman is written with an adult personality, and has no familial relationships with anyone.

So the question becomes: Alright, all of the DLN were created by Dr. Light. Does that make them siblings? Does that make any DLN x DLN incest? And the answer is- not really, no. Having the same parents and being raised from childhood in the same household is not the same as being a machine built by the same creator.

A good example showing this is that, while Powered Up implies a sibling-like relationship with the mm1 bots and Rock+Roll+Blues, the Archie Comics made Iceman a crush on Roll. Archie!Ice isn't incestuous, he just doesn't have a sibling relationship with Rock and Roll in that universe.

The Archie Comics will also have the Wily bots sometimes refer to themselves as "brothers". This could be interpreted as being sibling-like, or more of a "brothers in arms" relationship you might find in military squadrons.

Then you have, say, Fully Charged- where bots like Ice, Cut, Elec, etc aren't even built by the same guy. They're completely not related whatsoever.

So with how different each media is, and how there isn't a series-wide consensus on robot relationships (aside from the immediate Light Family) let alone robot ages, what is and isn't okay to ship?

And the answer is... well, that's going to be up to how the individual interprets their own events of Megaman Classic. And this is where we get into the "don't be Fucking Weird" rule.

For example: In my "AU" (I say AU, it's just my interp of how I portray the events of Classic), I use the term "linemate" a lot. A linemate is a fandom-coined term meaning relationship between a "line" of robot masters (DLN 003-OO8 aka the mm1 bots are the line of "Firsts", DWN 009-016 aka the mm2 bots are the "Seconds" line, etc) that isn't familial, but DOES connect the fact that being built together establishes their own relationship. The closest human equivalent to this would be, like, somewhere between roommates and a military squad: you're stuck with each other, and have to work together whether you like it or not.

Going beyond linemates, in my AU I have that any relationships beyond linemates are up to the individual pair/group to decide what they want their relationship to be. So my mm1 bots decided their relationships with each other are familial, while the mm2 bots are more like coworkers, etc.

So, my Fire and Elec consider each other brothers, so it would be Fucking Weird if I shipped my Fire and Elec after establishing that, since it'd be basically incest. Now, another artist can come along and say "Hey, my Fire and Elec aren't siblings, and I ship them", and that's perfectly fine! I may even reblog FireElec art because it's not MY Fire and Elec! It all comes down to how you portray them. I think this venn diagram explains my thoughts on it pretty well:

The same goes for robot ages. Rock/Megaman is especially weird because like... some canon media will portray him like a child, but others will make him much older, so it rides that line on what's considered Fucking Weird or not. For this, I say just follow how you interpret the characters. Like, I've seen people ship Megaman x Quickman before, and that's usually fine. Just employ the "Don't be Fucking Weird rule"- if you ship Mega and Quick and you portray them as roughly the same age, that's perfectly fine. If your Mega is a child and your Quick is an adult though, that's Fucking Weird- don't be Fucking Weird.

The robots are portrayed VASTLY differently across the different Classic medias, so there's no "this is okay and this isn't" for most ships. It's going to depend on how you interpret Classic and how you wish to present your own takes on the characters!

I hope this makes sense. I'm arospec and ace and so I love looking at shipping through an analytical lens a lot, and Megaman Classic is fascinating for that kind of stuff. Aside from the Light Family, there are very few types of relationships that are consistent across most medias, so it really comes down to your own interpretation of that kind of thing.

[qqueenofhades]

Also, I am watching Good Night Oppy (the documentary about the mission of the Mars rover Opportunity) because apparently I want to Cry. And aside from the NASA crew who worked on the project all lovingly referring to Opportunity and its sister Spirit as "she" and talking about how much the whole project meant to them, the lead engineer on the Spirit program, when talking about the end of Spirit's mission, just gently goes "I guess she was tired too, after all the work she had done" and just. Hang on. Hang on I need a second

[biscylbenzene]

day 20 - pick an object in your house and design a character from it (negative points for humanoid action figures)

happy to have the opportunity to partake in the curious and ingenuitive NASA rover naming conventions

[peterrsthomas]

Book Review: All Systems Red

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells is the first instalment of the Murderbot Diaries, published in 2017. So, yes, I’m a little late to the party.

This is my first Murderbot read, and my first Martha Wells read, too. And I loved it. This is short-form sci-fi at it’s best. The main character, Murderbot, is an endearing mixture of insecure, anti-social, and self-effacing. Murderbot is part machine, part organic, but wholly constructed as a security unit. And it is able to hack into its ‘governor module’, the part of its circuitry that forces it to abide by external commands and protocols, and become self-determining. 

Despite its best efforts, Murderbot, who would rather watch endless serials from the entertainment feeds, becomes attached to the human scientists who have rented it from the ‘Company’, a corporate entity who supply subpar supplies and materials for interplanetary exploration.

To keep the book short and accessible, the world-building is fairly light, focusing around familiar themes of rogue robots and hacked computer networks, in a universe dominated by corporations and corporate interests. This works well, and the reader is able to focus on the characters and their relationships to one another—Murderbot, of course, as our perspective character, but the others, too: the calm leader, the sceptic distrustful of Murderbot, the empathetic scientists keen to draw out Murderbot’s emotional side. Through their interactions with Murderbot, we get a window into their different personalities. We also explore our protagonist’s anxieties and struggles—showing that, despite being a SecUnit, Murderbot could be just as human as the scientists it’s protecting. Throughout, the robot bounces between analytical and emotional, detached and invested.

At the heart of the plot is a mystery that unfolds at a steady pace across the pages. It thumps along with a steady staccato, with revelations at each stage that keen the reader interested. The unraveling of the mystery is satisfying and helps flesh out the broader world that Murderbot and the scientists are operating in. So, in learning more about the mysterious forces at play, we learn more about how the corporate universe works—an effective use of words in a short novel!

This series came recommended to me by a number of people, and I am deeply thankful for that. The novel takes familiar sci-fi elements (AI, corporate dominance of space) and views them through the lens of an engaging and relatable protagonist. I am happy to pass on the recommendation to anyone who hasn’t yet read All Systems Red!

[pchelik-please]

I have watched Gundam Seed Stargazer.

I am obliterated. Please I dont want the space robot made to explore the endless galaxy to fight in the war. I know it doesn't even have its own mind yet but please give my space loaf some nice time staring at stars please. I dont understand what is happening, why everything was flooded on Earth and what is going on with Sven's colleagues and work life, but please give space loaf peace please. I want it to explore the stars not fight in a conflict it wasnt even made for. Yes Stargazer has built in weapons because it is a mobile suit and no matter how much it will want to explore the space the guns and blaster will be here. I dont know shit about Gundam I cant make a normal fucking analysis on my space loaf 😭.

[livingforstars]

Lunokhod 1: Moon Robot - January 13th, 1996.

"On November 17th, 1970, the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-controlled robot on the Moon. Known as Lunokhod 1, it weighed just under 2,000 pounds and was designed to operate for 90 days, while guided by a 5-person team on planet Earth at the Deep Space Center near Moscow, USSR. Lunokhod 1 actually toured the Lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program. The futuristic looking eight wheeler is pictured here in an artist's conception atop its landing module. Ramps extend from both sides of the spacecraft, allowing the rover to choose an alternative route to the surface if one side is blocked by boulders."

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Love, Death & Robots - S3E3 - The Very Pulse of the Machine (2022)

[the-alternate-realities]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[xtruss]

Origami, Everywhere

Engineers are increasingly turning to the centuries-old art of folding paper into three-dimensional forms to shape some of the modern world’s most ambitious designs. The models shown here, many of which are still prototypes, demonstrate the exciting potential of future technologies. Not only are designs less expensive and faster to manufacture in two-dimensional form, but folding also opens a new realm of scale, materials, and mechanical movement, with applications ranging from repairing our bodies to exploring outer space

Alberto Lucas López, Lawson Parker, Eve Conant, Lucas Petrin, NGM Staff, Lawson Parker. Art by Matthew Twombly. Sources: Itai Cohen, Cornell University; NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program; Educational Museum of Origami in Zaragoza (EMOZ); Marco Meloni and others, Advanced Science, July 2021

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

Maybe the most real & true episode premise Ultraman has ever laid down