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The fact that this is just a handheld iPhone video and not a professionally shot thing makes it so much more surreal
Meh, I would have preferred they used a nice camera. Those Z9s they brought with them can shoot 8k video at 60 fps. When youβre something thatβs once in a lifetime, for all of humanity, do it in the best quality possible.
Judging from first few seconds of this, I expected Cylon Raiders to come screaming across the horizon.
That part of the footage as not published.
The fact that the astronauts were replaced by cylons is also kept secret for now.
And they have a plan!
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I still don't understand this use of emoji.
It's not "I shoved a π΅ up my π", I could get that, reject alphabet return to pictogram for the sake of compression if nothing else. But no, it's "I shoved a cactus π΅ up my dick π" which is just...why are we doing this?
It's only compressing the message visually (it generally uses more data)
Also, at least for me, it takes more work to parse the images than words require. I have to like... shift out of reading mode, comprehend the image and then go back to reading.
How do emoji use more data? They're one, maybe two unicode characters?
And thus more data
Than an entire word?
Take "cactus" for example. Each letter in the word "cactus" is one unicode character, for a total of six. π΅ is one unicode character, U+1F335.
Unicode characters are 4 bytes long, so "cactus" takes 24 bytes to transmit, where "π΅" takes 4. Unless something something UTF_8?
You're close, Unicode characters don't imply a number of bytes, it's how they're encoded that does (utf-8 most commonly). Utf-8 can be as little as one byte or as many as four, depending on the specific character. I don't know about emojis but I imagine they're in the four bytes section. Where's "asdf" is also four bytes in utf-8.
So I just looked it up, the UTF-8 encoding for the cactus emoji is 4 bytes long: 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xB5
Where the Latin alphabet is in the 1-byte region.
So it takes 6 bytes to transmit "cactus" in UTF-8, and only 4 to transmit βπ΅β. So any emoji that replaces 5 or more letters is more efficient. π breaks even with "dick" or "cock", more efficient than "penis", more than twice as compact as "eggplant" or "aubergine".
But that's not what people are doing
They always use a word and an emoji
Yes, to be clear I meant the example I gave where the word was replaced with the emoji was compression, not where they give the word and its emoji. That's as long-handed as possible.
π Are you a little bald headed baby βοΈ
Missed opportunity to use πΆ
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Hell yeah
What goes through your mind at that point? Like... the train of thought at that point had to be just wild.
"Sure hope that's still there when we come around the back!"
I think its one of those moments that is awesome at the time, but it sticks with you forever and over time you appreciate it more and more.
"HOLY FUCKING SHIT"
I think that's most of it.
Does this make them the first people to never see the Earth?
No, the Apollo missions also circled the moon.
No, I just closed my eyes.
People sleep
I used to know a guy who saw the Earth once.
Sadly, you can't see that anywhere actually on the moon, because of tidal locking.
Unless you run really fast.
And there's also the libration wobble.
"Earthset." Fuck, that would be such a cool title for a sci-fi novel. I'm sure someone else has taken it already, but still, it's such a cool word.
I couldnβt find one, surprisingly. At least no popular title. However, there is an Asimov short Earthset and Evening Star, I could find no reasonable sources to preview the story.
No Green Flash.
Turn it landscape and it's even cooler.
Shhhlooop... and gone
In german when the sun sets, we say "die Sonne geht unter" (the sun goes below / the sun sinks). And for doomsday we say "die Welt geht unter" (the world goes below). What we're seeing here is doomsday.
Cool beans.
Gotta say it's nice to be at a place online where half the comments aren't "obviously fake! Fake news! Everyone who believes this is a brainwashed sheep!" and so on, which they would (and I'm sure are) on Reddit, Youtube, Facebook etc. Not a single one here, it feels good.