Maybe it was not as cool as they thought it was

Robots made a comeback - on the moon, after a 37-year hiatus.

Apart from that, the article misses a bunch of very important trends and events in robotics. For example, industrial cooperative robots ( like Rethink Robotics Baster ) etc taking off.

A much better, video laden article here
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-our-favorite-robot-videos-and-biggest-stories-from-2013

I cant belive i didnt find "Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy" here. It has answers for everything.

What, you think they dont have Enhance button in LRO control room ?

Definitely more pixels than two there. just the lander white blob is about 6 pixels high, with some blur, and rover about 4. add shadows etc, we are easily talking about 50 pixels here !

Actually come to think of it, Proton faceplanting spectacularly at Baikonur might be a bit bigger, in terms of explosive power

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/07/01/spectacular-video-of-russian-proton-failure/

Well, ISS weighs around 400 tons, a bit more now. One of it's coolant pumps spontaneously developed undocumented features recently, and the crew mounted a fix up mission with somewhat makeshift EVA suits and other merryness right around the time when everyone was stuffing their faces around christmas tables.

So if we are talking about big mishaps, thats pretty big, coming in at 400 tons and whizzing about at 7km/s overhead. Fortunately, the fix worked.
 

You couldnt hit it as techbase was on the other side of terminator.

The not so surprise is that these morons tend to increasingly more have a certain political affiliation.

Look, if you have been denied the opportunity to participate in evolution, wouldnt you lose a bit of faith there, too ?

There is this great documentary about this part of the population.

Probably because people buy them for grandparents and kids etc who obviously dont drag them out to look trendy in coffee shops at Noe Valley.

Everyone else is shoehorning idiotic tablet or mobile ui elements onto desktops as well. Unity, anyone ?

Good point :)

What are your alternatives if every alternative OS is a shitty alternative OS ? Dont run software ?

Last time i looked, there really are not that many OSes around that simultaneously a) do something useful b) avoid being shitty.
A couple of open source RTOSes sort of fit the bill, but they dont run any applications apart from the one you embed in them.