• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        It’s annoying me because that commenter is using a diminutive to try and anthropomorphise a robot.

        You can anthropomorphise it but at least have a basic understanding of the dimensions of the thing you’re trying to make cute.

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            2 months ago

            This from the “we” who called Higgs-Boson the blasphemous gd particle but make the joke more popular as the misunderstood “god particle” that eventually became most conceptualized as "the God particle?

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      There are different scales for big and small. In comparison to everything Curiosity was associated with (rockets, planets) it was tiny