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Yeah this sent me down a rabbit hole. Apparently "NASA had previously decided to declare the mission over if the lander missed two communication attempts" (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9321/nasa-retires-insight-mars-la...).

Ah well, nothing wrong with a little space theatre!

I suppose this is kind of a trivial question, but does anyone know if the last message was ACTUALLY the STRING: “My power’s really low. Don’t worry about me though…”, or was it some binary/hex code to represent that, like, "503 ERROR", and the PR department just tweeted its interpretation as “My power’s really low. Don’t worry about me though…”?

It raises more questions. Was this logging message decided by committee or a PM? Was it a dev easter egg? Do they have a writer?

Also, what conditions would trigger this "final" message?

Being a lesser engineer, my stuff just crashes unceremoniously and usually I am alerted not by a sweet note from my prod servers "Hey, looks like prod's going down, don't worry about me, though...", it's usually concerned phone call from a manager.

Rackspace was the best company I ever worked for as a software engineer. Started off as a contractor -- even then they treated me with respect and I felt no different than an employee. But when I became an employee -- WOW! The best onboarding I've ever had. It was also the best team I ever worked with. Only team I ever worked with that actually felt like a team and not a bunch of frenemies trying to step on eachother's necks to climb up the ladder. I still think Rackspace is a Good company with Good people. It's a shame to see the mismanagement of the work of such a great group of people.