China’s Jade Rabbit rover has run into difficulties with engineers from the China Academy of Space Technology reporting that “abnormalities in the lunar vehicle” have arisen from “the complicated environment on the moon’s surface”.
Despite the vagueness of this technological explanation, Jade Rabbit – who is named after a mythological rabbit that lives on the Moon – has managed to write its own, sentimental farewell through China’s state-run news agency Xinhua:
“Although I should’ve gone to bed this morning, my masters discovered something abnormal with my mechanical control system,” lamented the rover in a diary piece that was tweeted by a fan-run Webio account (a Twitter clone).
“My masters are staying up all night working for a solution. I heard their eyes are looking more like my red rabbit eyes. Nevertheless, I’m aware that I might not survive this lunar night.”
Being a creature of its masters the rover didn’t tweet anthing. The rover acted in the same way that our corporate media talking heads act when they speak to us. Like the rover they are programmed by their masters to say this or to say that. And like the rover if their masters find something abnormal about their mechanical control system——like going off script——-they will not survive the luner night. SEE: MSNBC.