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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 65 pts · 119d (3 replies)

I'm pretty sure this was created in a sound studio by Stanley Kubrick.

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 119d (1 reply)

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...

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 28 pts · 119d

Like this

Or this

urandom@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 119d

I’ve made better screenshots in KSP

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 119d (25 replies)

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.

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 56 pts · 119d (21 replies)

Imagine being the furthest people away from Donald Trump.

merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 119d (15 replies)

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 119d (6 replies)

I didn't know Mr. Hankey made the mission roster.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d (5 replies)

they fucked up the toilet within hours of launch. nasa if you have been reading me making fun of you I am available for consult on a design for a hose-based toilet that if it breaks, you've fucked up the entire spaceship on gods how did this fuck up.

i'm surprised they brought 10 days of shitbags but here we are

a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 119d (4 replies)

Wait what. What happened to their toilet?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d (3 replies)

they have to pee in bags for reasons. I don't think we got or will get a full explanation on how the shitter broke until splashdown

a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 119d

Maybe that dehydrated food didn't agree with them. Imagine being that guy to have clogged the spaceship’s toilet for the entire trip

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d (7 replies)

How thick does that window need to be to handle the pressure without blowing out?

eleijeep@piefed.social · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

7

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d

Dammit! Smashes worthless spaceship and starts over

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 119d (4 replies)

There is almost no pressure in space.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 119d (3 replies)

Exactly and that makes it harder to contain all the pressure inside the spacecraft.

Archelon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 119d (2 replies)

If you think about it, a spacecraft only really needs to handle about 1 atm of pressure, which isn’t much compared to something like a deep sea submersible that needs to handle 100+.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 119d

That’s only fifteen PSI.

My tires have forty.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d

Yeah, they could probably even go a bit lower than sea level pressure.

Though even then, it would still be like everything outside was a giant vacuum cleaner. How thick would a pane of glass on earth need to be if you stuck a massive vacuum cleaner over it that managed a perfect seal around the window so that the window didn't shatter even if you bump it a bit on the other side?

I was going to add that a strong hurricane can result from just a 10% pressure difference, but I realized that it's a bit misleading because while that is accurate for the pressure driving it, the destruction that hurricanes cause from winds is more about the momentum of all that air moving to equalize the pressure, not the acceleration from pressure difference itself. It's probably easier to engineer a bay window for a spaceship than a bay window to watch a (strong) hurricane make landfall through. Other than all the space crap slamming into it, at least.

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Must be peaceful up there.

Side note: Dizzy is fucking great. I should play it again!

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 119d (1 reply)

I think Fantasy World is the best one, if only for the memories of my mate being grounded for calling the 0898 number for the solution to some of the puzzles.

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

Fantasy World was the one I was thinking of. I had the ZX Spectrum version!

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy on MegaDrive I think is one I remember fondly as well - I had the 2-in-1 cart with Cosmic Spacehead which I also loved!

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d

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

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d

imagine watching the globe for explosions visible from space. that's gotta be worse than waiting for a headline.

generallynonsensical@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 119d (2 replies)
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The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Apparently b-52s have already taken off from the UK. it's a 7 hour flight

generallynonsensical@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
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hansolo@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 119d (5 replies)

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.

Rolder@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 119d

To be fair a lot of meteors hit earths atmosphere and disintegrate. Poor moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to protect it though

guitarfosec@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 118d (1 reply)

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.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 118d

Just be glad you're not at the insect scale. Talk about hostile!

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d (1 reply)

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.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 118d

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.

merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 119d (3 replies)

That looks like a shoe print. Considering the size of it, it can only mean...

Big Foot confirmed!

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 119d (2 replies)

The proper terminology is moon yeti

ech@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 118d

The Abominable Moonman

titanicx@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 119d

Moti

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 119d (5 replies)

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.

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 119d (2 replies)

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.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 119d (1 reply)

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

Cliff@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 118d

Artemis III is not heading to the moon though.

testaccount789@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 119d

Plus it's done using re-used parts which will just become single-use: https://old-man-par.com/2026/01/21/previously-flow-components-of-artemis-ii/

Oldest one first flown on STS-5 in 1982.

mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d

Yeah but what about the wars????

How are we supposed to fund them if we're doing stuff that's good for all of mankind?!?!

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 119d (1 reply)

I think I've found my new wallpaper.

Vupware@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 119d

Images.nasa.gov

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Nice job pointing the camera just so the Nazi base isn't visible.

Furbag@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 118d

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.

charonn0@startrek.website · 4 pts · 119d

Sarothazrom@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 118d (2 replies)

civilization collapses in the next 48h

these guys: um

ech@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 118d
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 118d

I was just telling my wife how I could die happy if I had this experience.

yesman@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 119d (13 replies)

What the hell is an .avif format? Anyway, you can just save it as .png and that works.

PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 119d (3 replies)

png is completely the wrong format for photos.

addie@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 119d

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.

someguy3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Why's that?

PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 119d

The short answer is size. Longer answer is because of how the compression works and it's not what it was designed for. PNG are more suited to graphics.

PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 11 pts · 119d (2 replies)

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.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d

Oh guess the AI folks haven't yet realized that you can increase perceived accuracy by adding a small amount of random noise.

Which of course they didn't, because then they'd need to understand some things about images instead of just throwing whatever data they can find at it and hoping it figures it all out from that.

Though I'm not sure how much it applies to images, as the examples I've seen were audio. But it's cool to hear a low bitrate audio sample of someone talking unintelligibly and then play that same clip with random noise also playing and suddenly you can understand what is being said.

qqq@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

The diffusion models at least were basically designed to "remove noise from a random image until a real image emerged" so that actually makes a lot of sense, interesting

lena@gregtech.eu · 8 pts · 119d

It's a very efficient royalty-free codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF?wprov=sfla1

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 119d (1 reply)

It's a .webp file for me.

Chances are the program you're using supports all this crap, and ignores the extension anyway, because far too many people just rename files to "convert" them.

Only real way to be sure is to open it with a hex editor. The first few bytes will tell you what a file type really is.

deadcream@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 119d

Lemmy probably returns images in different formats depending on what client supports (and ones with better compression take precedence).

Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 119d (1 reply)

It's probably the best open format for pictures, based on the AV1 codec. Better compression than jpeg and can do lossless with better compression than png as well.

quips@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 119d

Jpegxl gang

varyingExpertise@feddit.org · 1 pts · 119d

Native iOS image format I think, AV1 derived?

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Best photo of the moon made by a regular camera.
Ain't no telescope gonna bring you this close.

Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 119d
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zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 119d (1 reply)

See? Earth is just a bent flat disk! Knew it!

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 119d

I cant see the elephants or the turtle.

ech@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 118d

That "highest resolution image of the moon" user on Reddit is gonna have to find a new gimmick.

Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Well they better give it back

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Why don't they call it "leaving" a dump? After all, you're not actually taking it anywhere!

titanicx@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 119d

You don't?

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d (1 reply)

WHERE ARE THE REBEL BASES!?

benderbeerman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 118d

Rebels cum?

baduhai@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 119d (4 replies)

Where can I find a high res version of this?

Vupware@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 119d (3 replies)

You’re in for a treat.

photos.nasa.gov

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 118d (2 replies)

Lemmy hug of death?

baduhai@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 118d (1 reply)

I find that hard to believe. Prolly the entire world trying to look at the photos.

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 118d

Yeah it was tongue-in-cheek... Sorry

Zacryon@feddit.org · 3 pts · 119d

That looks like a fluffy gray round bread.

Alpha71@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d

Photographed on a iPhone 17 Pro Max

altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 119d

I can see all the assholes from here!!

Also.... Yeah your X argument regarding Y is hugely important and so your economic and societal views should be more important than knowing that people are starving and or dying somewhere in that blue ball, so don't do anything about it.

Like if you own 90% of all human resources, don't just give hungry people enough to eat. That makes sense. You are an awesome human being for figuring out how to take so much from everyone else...... ASSHOLE...... You know who you guys are.

Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 119d (3 replies)
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 119d (2 replies)

I love Gil-Scot Heron, but I think space exploration is essential. Although perhaps he’s not discounting space exploration as a whole, but rather stating that it sucks that whities would rather leave the planet than help their fellow man.

Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 119d (1 reply)

I think we need to spend some more time looking down at what we can fix here before we can look to the stars with anything other than a colonizer mindset. Space is just going to be commodified for the ultra rich and any benefit the exploration of it might give will, as with all things, never actually “trickle down” to the poor of the earth.

Vupware@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 119d

Yeah, that’s the trajectory we’re on, for sure. But how long do we have until Earth is literally cooked?

This is the angle I take, and the reason I will always remain enthusiastic RE: space exploration.

However, I don’t go advocating for it in the same way I do more “surface-level” issues. My voice is better used in fixing the problems down here, yes, but I’m still supportive of space science, discoveries, and their ancillary contributions to science down here.

Pherenike@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Well there you have it, the Earth IS round, can we please get over that debate now uncle Mike?

Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 119d

No stars! It's AI! /s

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 118d
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 118d (1 reply)

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.

renormalizer@feddit.org · 3 pts · 118d

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.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d

Not real. No elephants.

mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 118d

Sentinel Prime lurking

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 118d

AI SLOP /s

biofaust@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d

A rat done bit my sister Nell...

mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 119d

Obligatory "dang it, I blinked".

But seriously though it's gorgeous and I love the work the crew is doing.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d

AI... j/k.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 119d

Where’s the cheese?

HubertManne@piefed.social · 0 pts · 119d

someday we will be able to automate such tasks helping protect human lives and money. till that day brave men and women will have to brave the dangers of space to get pictures.

horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · -4 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Would an LLM have done it better though?

BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 119d

It would have bimbofied the moon and added the jade rabbit.

And then the algorithm would do the rest.

lath@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 119d

Are you sure? That they're still human?

aizawaA02@lemmy.zip · -13 pts · 119d (3 replies)
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

the moon doesn't exist. what you're seeing in the night sky is a hologram that NASA is projecting on a big canvas each night to mess with your head.

aizawaA02@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 118d

Wow that is so wild. I did hear about the hologram theory. That is a good one.

Vupware@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 119d

I hope this is a joke for your sake. Otherwise you need to seek clinical help.