Where’s the cheese?
Are you sure? That they’re still human?
I think I’ve found my new wallpaper.
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
See? Earth is just a bent flat disk! Knew it!
I cant see the elephants or the turtle.
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.
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.
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.
To be fair a lot of meteors hit earths atmosphere and disintegrate. Poor moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to protect it though
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!
Well they better give it back
Why don’t they call it “leaving” a dump? After all, you’re not actually taking it anywhere!
Not real. No elephants.
What the hell is an .avif format? Anyway, you can just save it as .png and that works.
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
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).
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.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.
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
It’s a very efficient royalty-free codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF?wprov=sfla1
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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Apparently b-52s have already taken off from the UK. it’s a 7 hour flight
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Imagine being the furthest people away from Donald Trump.
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
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
Maybe that dehydrated food didn’t agree with them. Imagine being that guy to have clogged the spaceship’s toilet for the entire trip
How thick does that window need to be to handle the pressure without blowing out?
7
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+.
That’s only fifteen PSI.
My tires have forty.
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!
Photographed on a iPhone 17 Pro Max
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.
That looks like a shoe print. Considering the size of it, it can only mean…
Big Foot confirmed!
The proper terminology is moon yeti
Moti
The Abominable Moonman
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.
Would an LLM have done it better though?
