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.
I felt bad for them that as soon as they got back in comm range they had to set up a video call and that fuckin blob was on the phone. The Canadian did slide in a nice comment about diversity before handing off the mic though, appreciated that energy
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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!
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
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civilization collapses in the next 48h
these guys: um
Nice job pointing the camera 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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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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That "highest resolution image of the moon" user on Reddit is gonna have to find a new gimmick.
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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Well they better give it back
Why don't they call it "leaving" a dump? After all, you're not actually taking it anywhere!
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