maritime morse is tapped out (wired) / eternal silence (jamie clements & nick millar) / (reddit) / (guggenheim museum) / can’t help myself (sun yuan & peng yu) / (youtube) / opportunity (rover) (wikipedia) / opportunity’s selfie (NASA) / (youtube)
Image Description. image 1. text reading, “calling all. This is our last cry before eternal silence.” the word calling is in all caps.
image 2. a black screen with morse code in white on it. it reads, “eternall silent fe.” the morse transcript is the following. / - / . / .-. / -. / .- / .-.. / .-.. / … / .. / .-.. / . / -. / - /..-./ .
image 3. a reddit comment a user whose name is redacted reads, “And no one heard it”
image 4. text reading, “ When the sensors detect that the fluid has strayed too far, the arm frenetically shovels it back into place, leaving smudges on the ground and splashes on the surrounding walls.”
image 5. a photo of the installation art piece “Can’t Help Myself”, which is a robotic arm in a glass room constantly sweeping blood-like fluid back towards itself.
image 6. a youtube comment by a person with a redacted username reading, “I feel bad for it. And I don’t understand why. I feel a connection to it.
image 7. text between quotes reading, “My battery is low and it’s getting dark”
image 8. Opportunity’s first self-portrait on Mars. it’s a monochrome blurry picture of the mars rover. it’s stitched up of many different rectangles. there’s black in the space the rover doesn’t occupy.
image 9. a youtube comment by a person with a redacted username reading, “Feels like just yesterday I was hearing the news of Curiosity’s arrival on mars. Goodbye, little friend, go with the stars, until we meet again.” End Description
