Given Trump's bullshit, frankly, I just want to come in here and appreciate the absolute beauty of our world and its neighbour. I really fear what's about to happen.
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Imagine being the furthest people away from Donald Trump.
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3.5ish hours till Trumps 8pm Eastern deadline.
It's going to be an interesting night.
Apparently b-52s have already taken off from the UK. it's a 7 hour flight
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I'm pretty sure this was created in a sound studio by Stanley Kubrick.
As the launch was happening I said to my wife "AI must be making Kubrick's job so much simpler" and she just sort of glared at me...
Like this
Or this
I’ve made better screenshots in KSP
That looks like a shoe print. Considering the size of it, it can only mean...
Big Foot confirmed!
civilization collapses in the next 48h
these guys: um
And we "only" had to wait half a century since the last one, during which so much money was blown up in wars that it would have paid for this mission hundred-fold.
yeah but i've heard a nice explanation that basically the last 50 years were spent on developing IT, which we need for better rockets. so instead of flying with rockets directly in 1970, we paused, developed computers that can do meaningful and complex navigation, and then built rockets.
Before the Soviet space race started, NASA had plans to do a couple flybys then build a base that would become a shipyard for deeper space exploration so it’s kind of a “best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago” situation but still amazing to see every stage complete successfully. That’s great news for Artemis III
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Glamour shot or our shield. Literally - the far side of the moon absorbs many small meteorites that might otherwise hit Earth. That's why it has no large mare, it's just oops all craters. Artemis II found 3 new craters since the last time the far side had been mapped in detail.
These types of photos always do remind me of the fact that we live in an incredibly hostile universe. Helps me to appreciate how lucky we are to have this watery rock with a big bubble around it to live on.
Just be glad you're not at the insect scale. Talk about hostile!
To be fair a lot of meteors hit earths atmosphere and disintegrate. Poor moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to protect it though
Yeah but the one time (we think we know of) that we collided with another planet, the moon didn't even show up until just after. Fucking slacker.
And ever since then, it's been edging farther and farther away, like it has better things to do than take meteors to the face for us (and asteroids to the ass). We need some sort of tether or leash to keep it where it is.
Which just happens to be when it's the same apparent size as the sun, a lucky coincidence for anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing one, because this might be the only place in the entire galaxy where such a thing even happens.
The Moon was probably just scared of dinosaurs.
What's kind of crazy about the perceived distance thing is that timing of being in this planet now also plays a factor. 100 million years ago a 1ish% relative size larger might have made for far fewer annular eclipses. Or more, I can't find any info on that, but I expect fewer annular and more total eclipses. Of the 224 eclipses this century, 72 are annular and 68 total.
But it's all part of this scifi bonkers planet. Our star makes us have crazy light rivers in the sky at the poles because molten iron inside the planet is spinning faster than the outside of the planet to make giant magnetic currents. The crust isn't even solid, it's a slow moving chunky ice flow of silicates, like some busted-ass pie pulled straight from the oven. Huge deposits of dead trees and other early life got buried and remained intact as seams or seas of hydrocarbons, just hanging out. In some places the life that evolved here can die and get buried and some of the remains turned into stone versions of itself. We can bounce radio waves of the inside of the atmosphere and the magnetic currents for our convenience.
Sorry, but it always sends me down a rabbit hole of how weird this place is and we just get used to it.
Nice job cropping the photo just so the Nazi base isn't visible.
I know they have really high resolution cameras on board those space ships but I doubt even they would be able to get a clear picture of the White House from where they are in space.
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AI SLOP /s
That "highest resolution image of the moon" user on Reddit is gonna have to find a new gimmick.
I think I've found my new wallpaper.
Images.nasa.gov
Best photo of the moon made by a regular camera.
Ain't no telescope gonna bring you this close.
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What the hell is an .avif format? Anyway, you can just save it as .png and that works.
png is completely the wrong format for photos.
Not arguing that PNG is the right choice, but you want something lossless for science purposes, and this is a science image.
You can tell roughly what order the impact craters were formed by seeing what overlaps what; looks like the small impacts mostly followed the big impacts. Maybe the earth's orbit cleared out the bigger stuff first? If you had a really good image, you might be able to work out the average impact angle, and therefore the average speed of impact, since we know the speed of the moon, and how they would intersect. Nothing's filled with lava like it has on the near side of the moon, which makes me think these have mostly happened later in the moon's life, when it's cooled down a bit.
I just love space, I've no education in it. I bet someone with a fancy moon science degree would be able to tell you a lot more, and they'd be poring over every pixel. Don't want any JPEGs getting in the way of that.
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I've been using it as a sort of litmus test for AI images. Even at a high quality setting, AVIF compresses them down to almost nothing.
Something to do with the lack of natural "jitter" in AI images and the way AVIF has been designed to perfectly deal with this.
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That's much bigger than "a basketball at arm's length," as was described by NASA. That's more like an oversized beach ball at arm's length for me, and I have a 7'6" wingspan. I'm 6'3" in height, and rather lanky.
To be fair, they have the advantage of 400mm lenses. You can take a full-frame picture of a basketball from 10m away with those.
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