That ought to be the most terrifying and awesome thing to experience. Seeing the thing you spent your entire life on, and everything you know and love and ever experienced is sitting on it, get smaller and smaller as you drift in the vast darkness of space.
You really gotta try not to panic while you're up there.
Probably not since they covered their bases in the same song by declaring that while space may be the final frontier, it's made in a Hollywood basement.
Thanks - I pulled the first one I saw and it was already framed up. I was posting mostly to show anyone looking at this in the future that if you rotate like 130 degrees, it shows outlines we're familiar with from looking at maps.
Also, totally wild this is a moonshine image, with city lights across Africa visible, and the aurora australis in there.
Because the original is not in a North-South orientation, so it's hard to tell that this is West Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Just to make it easier to understand what we're looking at.
Mmm, isn't that a feature? That our world has many points of view, all equally valid. There is nothing to fix in the original photo because when you look at a planet there is no up or down, just the unfathomable canvas of void embracing it.
I would even argue that the original orientation is good for the soul of those that cannot see the world with "some countries on the top". Especially during these times.
I'm betting that we get a vast majority of the pictures after the splashdown. They aren't even at the moon yet, so the most important pics of the trip are yet to be snapped.
That being said, I really really really like this one because it's showing the moonlit nightside of the planet with auroras, airglow and zodiacal light in the background. A picture like that has never been taken before.
31 Comments
13igTyme@piefed.social · 21 pts · 138d
Looks pretty flat to me.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 138d
Like a coin! Science, bitch!
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 138d
That ought to be the most terrifying and awesome thing to experience. Seeing the thing you spent your entire life on, and everything you know and love and ever experienced is sitting on it, get smaller and smaller as you drift in the vast darkness of space.
You really gotta try not to panic while you're up there.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 138d
That’s why the best selling book in the universe has “Don’t Panic” printed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
subOrange@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 138d
I hope your comment gets 42 upvotes, not more, no less.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 138d
Farewell and thanks for all the fish!
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 138d
I bumped it to 8.
nuachtan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
I did my part
merde@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 137d
Towel day in 51 days!
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
username_1@programming.dev · 12 pts · 138d
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
I don’t know. Going to N-S rotation would be a fun change from E-W rotation.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 138d
RHCP will have to revise some of their lyrics in their hit song Californication
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 138d
Probably not since they covered their bases in the same song by declaring that while space may be the final frontier, it's made in a Hollywood basement.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 138d
ZombieChicken@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 137d
Please no. Please.
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 137d
That image compression...
Here's a high res version
Edit: and the original
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
Thanks - I pulled the first one I saw and it was already framed up. I was posting mostly to show anyone looking at this in the future that if you rotate like 130 degrees, it shows outlines we're familiar with from looking at maps.
Also, totally wild this is a moonshine image, with city lights across Africa visible, and the aurora australis in there.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 138d
Why rotating it, though?
Zuriz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 137d
So that it properly projects on the retina ofc
merde@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 137d
👆
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
Because the original is not in a North-South orientation, so it's hard to tell that this is West Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Just to make it easier to understand what we're looking at.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
Mmm, isn't that a feature? That our world has many points of view, all equally valid. There is nothing to fix in the original photo because when you look at a planet there is no up or down, just the unfathomable canvas of void embracing it.
I would even argue that the original orientation is good for the soul of those that cannot see the world with "some countries on the top". Especially during these times.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
Maybe, but for people familiar with contours of a map in an N-S orientation, it's easier to know what you're seeing by turning it a bit.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 138d
Portugal mentioned!!!
plm00@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 138d
I can't see the other side. Flat earth confirmed. /s
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
Whats on the other side of the disk? 🤔
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
Turtles, all the way down.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 137d
The moon & sun. Friggin’ amateur hour over here. What a bunch of clowns.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 136d
I almost forgot to add the original Waffle House is there too.
BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
So, I am walking my dog and take like 20 pictures of him plying. Guys fly to the moon and all we've got is just this one image?
Deme@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 136d
I'm betting that we get a vast majority of the pictures after the splashdown. They aren't even at the moon yet, so the most important pics of the trip are yet to be snapped.
That being said, I really really really like this one because it's showing the moonlit nightside of the planet with auroras, airglow and zodiacal light in the background. A picture like that has never been taken before.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 137d
Don't worry, they were trained to take images of the earth....