Look, it's not offensive, it's amazingly good outreach to young minds, it "worked" but it's also artificial, anthropomorphic and cringe.
A core compute voltage check and/or a Battery Management model dropped below a sustainable level for active use. Maybe a programmer put an Easter egg in but truly, it might have said
SYS$SYSTEM:LOW VOLTAGE EVENT SHUTTING DOWN
And they'd have said this sob story.
I know I'm being a grinch. I do not like this infantilism and I do not like the ritualised post countdown motivational speech read to air breathlessly at launch.
A core compute voltage check and/or a Battery Management model dropped below a sustainable level for active use. Maybe a programmer put an Easter egg in but truly, it might have said
SYS$SYSTEM:LOW VOLTAGE EVENT SHUTTING DOWN
And they'd have said this sob story.
I know I'm being a grinch. I do not like this infantilism and I do not like the ritualised post countdown motivational speech read to air breathlessly at launch.
5..4..3..2..1.. lift-off. <microphone drop> WFM