Mars rover Curiosity has threatened to quit Twitter after receiving abuse from trolls on Earth.

Nasa’s Mars Science Laboratory saddened its 1.3million enthusiastic followers with a series of tweets explaining recent abuse from a vocal minority had become too much to bear.
‘Here I am, working 24.6/7 for no pay, without any hope of ever being allowed to come home, and all the thanks I get is tweets telling me to “eat dust”, and calling me “wheel brain”,’ it wrote.
‘Why do I even bother? I’m working my CPU off for the benefit of all humanity, but still people accuse me of looking like one of the droids Luke Skywalker rejects in A New Hope.’

Twitter rant from outer space (Picture: Twitter/@MarsCuriosity)

The mobile lab added that if it was not shown a bit more respect it would begin withholding evidence of life on Mars.
Despite further belligerent threats to found a galactic empire with Mars as its capital dedicated to eradicating the snarky human race, Curiosity received the backing of some high profile tweeters.

(Picture: Twitter/’stephenfry)

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Nasa said it was unable to comment as its servers were being overtaken by a radial beam of pure energy emanating from the Gale Crater.
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