Space.com posts a story I saw references to last night, that Sierra Space has a contract to produce a trash compactor for the International Space Station.
An International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission in 2026 will send up the Sierra Space trash compactor for testing, company officials stated in a press release on Wednesday (Oct. 16). Like many other space station testbeds, this trash compactor will assess how to deal with the problem of garbage on eventual crewed moon or Mars missions, where disposal will be even more of an issue.
All well and good - but then they added:
and some media outlets say the machine looks like Wall-E.
No. I never saw the movie but I know what Wall-E looked like and I see no resemblance whatsoever. Here's the two, side by side:
Unsurprisingly, a bunch of artists in a movie company that specializes (or did
back then) in animation could produce a much more anthropogenic robot with
much a more expressive "face" than a hardware company that's, well, producing
what used to be called a trash masher.
Not that there's anything wrong with a trash masher (compactor), or what
Sierra Space is doing here. It just doesn't look like the movie star robot.
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