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That looks like a shoe print. Considering the size of it, it can only mean…
Big Foot confirmed!
The proper terminology is moon yeti
The Abominable Moonman
Moti
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
Artemis III is not heading to the moon though.
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.
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?!?!
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.
Imagine being the furthest people away from Donald Trump.
I didn’t know Mr. Hankey made the mission roster.
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
Wait what. What happened to their toilet?
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
How thick does that window need to be to handle the pressure without blowing out?
7
Dammit! Smashes worthless spaceship and starts over
There is almost no pressure in space.
Exactly and that makes it harder to contain all the pressure inside the spacecraft.
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+.
Must be peaceful up there.
Side note: Dizzy is fucking great. I should play it again!
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.
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!
imagine watching the globe for explosions visible from space. that’s gotta be worse than waiting for a headline.
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
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
Well, fuck.
Interesting night indeed.
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
I think I’ve found my new wallpaper.
Images.nasa.gov
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.
civilization collapses in the next 48h
these guys: um
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/00d598da-983b-4367-8c93-511922dcae26.png
I was just telling my wife how I could die happy if I had this experience.
Best photo of the moon made by a regular camera.
Ain’t no telescope gonna bring you this close.
That “highest resolution image of the moon” user on Reddit is gonna have to find a new gimmick.
WHERE ARE THE REBEL BASES!?
Rebels cum?
Well they better give it back
Why don’t they call it “leaving” a dump? After all, you’re not actually taking it anywhere!
You don’t?
Photographed on a iPhone 17 Pro Max
That looks like a fluffy gray round bread.
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.
Why’s that?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Lemmy probably returns images in different formats depending on what client supports (and ones with better compression take precedence).
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.
Jpegxl gang
Native iOS image format I think, AV1 derived?
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.
Where can I find a high res version of this?
You’re in for a treat.
photos.nasa.gov
Lemmy hug of death?
I find that hard to believe. Prolly the entire world trying to look at the photos.
Yeah it was tongue-in-cheek… Sorry
Whitey on the Moon
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.
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.
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.
Well there you have it, the Earth IS round, can we please get over that debate now uncle Mike?
Circles are also round. Circles are also flat. Boom, roasted!
No stars! It’s AI! /s
Sentinel Prime lurking
AI… j/k.
AI SLOP /s
A rat done bit my sister Nell…
Not real. No elephants.
Where’s the cheese?
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.
Are you sure? That they’re still human?
Would an LLM have done it better though?
It would have bimbofied the moon and added the jade rabbit.
And then the algorithm would do the rest.
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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.
Wow that is so wild. I did hear about the hologram theory. That is a good one.
I hope this is a joke for your sake. Otherwise you need to seek clinical help.