In a thing of hours , Donald Trumpwill be the forty-fifth President of the United States of America . The world of science – and pretty much most of the planet , to be honest – is appalled that this has all really come to pass for some rather obvious intellect , and wad of them are saying a lamentable leave-taking to outgoing President Obama .
Far from being a shrinking violet , the Curiosity rover onMarshas decided to chime in on the goodbyes too .
When it land on the Red Planet back in 2012 , it was channel anengraved plaquecontaining the signatures of plenty of America ’s top officials , include Vice President Joe Biden and the POTUS himself , Mr Obama . On the 44th Martian Day of its exciting mission – in honour of the forty-fourth president , who has since childhood had a fascination with quad – it took a selfie , which featured the plaque .
At the time , it was a nice salute to the ever - curious , data - driven , science flake occupy the Oval Office . Keeping an heart on outcome from the Martian surface , and possibly bewail the inauguration of the world boob tube show champion from hell , Curiosity retweeted this selfie once more , mention that it “ carried POTUS ’s signature to the surface of Mars ” with a fairly proud tone .
descry this tweet on January 12 , President Obama tweeted back . Not being able to baulk a in force daddy joke , he replied : “ That is out of this humankind , ” before adding his thanks .
This little interchange is a meet send off from the Curiosity squad to Obama , who has committed NASA to amaze amanned mission to Marsby the 2030s .
“ There are a lot of practiced thing about being President , ” Obamaremarked last year , at the White House ’s Annual Science Fair . “ But some of the estimable minute that I ’ve had as President have involve science . ”
“ I have in mind , I have shot a marshmallow out of a cannon directly under Lincoln ’s portraiture , " he add . “ I ’ve learned about prototypes from six - yr - old Girl Scouts who build a page - turning machine out of Legos for people who might be incapacitate .
“ Most importantly , I ’ve just been able to see the improbable ingenuity and passion and oddity and brain power of America ’s next contemporaries , and all the nerveless things that they do . ”
Obama at his terminal White House Science Fair . Obama White Housevia YouTube
There has rarely been an American Chief Executive who has been so genuinely enchant and engage by scientific discipline as the 44th . Trump has the most enormous shoes to meet in this compliments alone .
