Poking Fun at a Dying Jade Rabbit

This week’s headline in making fun at China on late-night TV was dramatic readings of the “last messages” from China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover.

Here’s Patrick Stewart reading the part:

Here’s Stephen Colbert getting dramatic:

But before you derive too much enjoyment from the failure of a peaceful exploratory journey to push the boundaries of human knowledge, let’s not forget that the US has its own inexplicably personified, selfie-takin’ planetary rover.

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