The Mars Phoenix Lander got all uppity and shut its robotic arm down over the weekend, refusing to follow NASA’s orders when it “realized” those actions would have damaged it’s wrist. NASA programmers sent new code to bring the arm back to life, and are now messing with the original code to try and get the task done. Apparently NASA is pleased with the bot thinking for itself. They described the process as “pretty neat.”

Real neat. When this thing strikes a bargain with alien life to wipe us out that will be neat too.

[PCworld]