Missed xkcd comics #1

Some notable (for me) xkcd comics that I’ve missed for the past few weeks (latest comics included).

• Video Orientation: The diagonal orientation is clever, no cons.
• Diffentation and Integration: Integration always seems to have a lot of work needed but that’s fun part about it.
• Plutonium
• Night Shift
• Opportunity Rover: Thank you Opportunity.
• Launch Risk
• Biff Tannen: Another classic Back to the Future discussion, great!
• Internet Archive
• Schwarzschild’s Cat
• Laptop Issues

I really did missed a lot.

Kenneth Chang, NYT:

Opportunity, the longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, roamed the red plains of Mars for more than 14 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into the planet’s distant past. But on Wednesday, NASA announced that the rover is dead.

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“It is therefore that I am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission as complete,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, said at a news conference.

What a bot. Curiosity will be joined by a new rover in 2020.