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Opportunity was supposed to run for 90 days, but it ran for 15 years. Is this… is this the origin of Robot Hanukkah?
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If it wasn’t before, you can bet your ass it is now. Thank you so much for tagging me in this.
Happy Robonukkah everybody!
Okay, so is this another weeklong thing? What will the traditional foods and observances be?
Iron-rich foods to represent the metal in Oppy’s body. Challah, a symbol of the working class (at least it was in my dad’s Jewish community growing up, IDK about the rest of the world) is had with each meal.
You light a pillar candle to represent the fire used in constructing Opportunity and thank God for the fire of creation, for creating the sun which gives light and warmth to the universe and thus allows life to flourish, and the light and all that represents. It’s a pillar candle because those are absurdly long lasting, as was Oppy.
At the annual Robonukkah family dinner you and your family talk about times you thought you couldn’t go on but did, in spite of how hard it was, and meditate on what got you through that, how to better support each other, etc.
In remembrance of Oppy’s death just before Valentine’s Day, a day of chocolate, the children are given gelt that was put in the fridge (representing the cold vacuum of space) during Hanukkah Proper ™.
But the truest observance is the intra-community argument about whether it’s Robonukkah or Robanukkah.
Holy shit, I was half-joking but this is so beautiful I’m genuinely tearing up and I will be very upset if we don’t make this a thing.
90, the original number of days Oppy was supposed to live, divided by 15, the number of years Oppy did, is 6.
Robonukkah is therefore six days long, which is a holy number also representing how God rested at the end of six days of work, thus showing the connection between the divine and creation is not as far apart as one might think.
@acanthepeira !!!
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humanpersonface:
khrysoprase:
wetwareproblem:
khrysoprase:
wetwareproblem:
khrysoprase:
wetwareproblem:
skyheartstar13:
haltraveler:
Opportunity was supposed to run for 90 days, but it ran for 15 years. Is this… is this the origin of Robot Hanukkah?
@wetwareproblem
If it wasn’t before, you can bet your ass it is now. Thank you so much for tagging me in this.
Happy Robonukkah everybody!
Okay, so is this another weeklong thing? What will the traditional foods and observances be?
Iron-rich foods to represent the metal in Oppy’s body. Challah, a symbol of the working class (at least it was in my dad’s Jewish community growing up, IDK about the rest of the world) is had with each meal.
You light a pillar candle to represent the fire used in constructing Opportunity and thank God for the fire of creation, for creating the sun which gives light and warmth to the universe and thus allows life to flourish, and the light and all that represents. It’s a pillar candle because those are absurdly long lasting, as was Oppy.
At the annual Robonukkah family dinner you and your family talk about times you thought you couldn’t go on but did, in spite of how hard it was, and meditate on what got you through that, how to better support each other, etc.
In remembrance of Oppy’s death just before Valentine’s Day, a day of chocolate, the children are given gelt that was put in the fridge (representing the cold vacuum of space) during Hanukkah Proper ™.
But the truest observance is the intra-community argument about whether it’s Robonukkah or Robanukkah.
Holy shit, I was half-joking but this is so beautiful I’m genuinely tearing up and I will be very upset if we don’t make this a thing.
90, the original number of days Oppy was supposed to live, divided by 15, the number of years Oppy did, is 6.
Robonukkah is therefore six days long, which is a holy number also representing how God rested at the end of six days of work, thus showing the connection between the divine and creation is not as far apart as one might think.
@acanthepeira !!!
@penrosesun
BEAUTIFUL
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