David Brin sez... (Off-Topic)

by bluerunner , Music City, Thursday, February 08, 2018, 13:10 (2478 days ago) @ ManKitten

In the late 2200's a deep space monitoring station detects an alien force hidden in a massive cloud of energy, moving through space towards Earth. A ship is sent to intercept it. When they make contact, a robot in a primitive spacesuit is beamed onboard the ship. They learn that the alien vessel, T'sla, is a living machine. At the center of the ship is a 20th century car that had been discovered drifting in space by an alien race of living machines.

The crew then learns that the car was sent back to determine the meaning behind the lyrics to David Bowie's "Life on Mars". The crew also realizes that T'sla lacks the ability to give itself a focus other than its original mission of having 1 million likes on YouTube. It finds its existence empty and without purpose. Before they give its live stream the final like, it reveals that it wants to be reunited with its creator, the almighty Musk. The crew brings T'sla to Mars where it merges with the powerful A.I., Musk 1000. The end.