Penny: Good afternoon! I would like to purchase a cake, preferably one for a birthday!
Shop Owner: Oh? Is it your father's Birthday? Or the day you were activated?
Penny: Oh! Neither. It is ... a personal Endeavour.
Shop Owner: Ooohh~ Secrets! How sweet! Haha! yes, that will be ...
Penny: 24 Lien and 59 cents.
Shop Owner: You're the protector of Mantle! You can have a small discount ... How about 20 lien flat?
Penny: That is extremely kind of you. Please have a good day!
Shop Owner: You too!
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Penny: Happy Birthday. You mean a lot to a Lot of people. I hope where ever your wheels have parked you is pleasant enough during sandstorms.
Penny: Happy Birthday Opportunity Rover. Thank you for letting us see things no others have.
Fun Fact! Depending on the way certain scientific instruments moved they produced buzzing in different pitches and frequencies. Scientist on the Rover Project figured out what order the instruments would have to be maneuvered in order to Sing happy birthday.
The Opportunity Rover sang Happy Birthday to itself every year on April 5th because we didn't want it to feel so alone up there.
Obviously today is the wonderful Sam Reid’s birthday but it is also my brother in law’s birthday who just so happens to ALSO be named Sam which opens up great opportunities for me to be a menace
I was checking dates for a different reason and came upon the information that Voyager 1 is supposed to reach the Oort Cloud in about three hundred years and I think if I ever get a chance to write for a sci-fi television show, the kind with fast space travel -- Star Trek, Doctor Who, whatever -- that's the episode I'm writing.
The year's 23-- (we'll say 2322 because) and humanity's space travel abilities have so wholly eclipsed anything imagined in the 1970s. We've got interstellar travel, we've made friends with the Centaurians, etc. The Oort Cloud is no longer theoretical, we've got frickin' maps or whatever now.
But there's still this little probe, launched full of hope and good will, and it's approaching this boundary.
And it would be a party. Star Fleet puts up their observation ships in the days leading up to Voyager 1's approach. Space tourists come to stand in front of the observation windows, waiting to watch it go by. And of course, it will have been centuries since Voyager 1 lost power, but it'll still be going even if it can't talk to us anymore.
And in the background, for the entire episode of whatever show it is, the music playing, the sounds projecting over the loudspeakers, would of course be the entire catalogue from the Golden Record. The hellos in all those different languages, the brainwaves, the whales, Johnny B. Goode.
Today I am 39 years old, but oh to be nine again and insisting on spending hours in the yard wearing a snorkle and goggles and petting the animals in the brief year when those awesome purple boots fit me.
Sooo it's Erins birthday so I made a meme I meant to make 3 days ago but decided to actually make it last minute XD I think it turned out fantastica!!!