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
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
Maybe that dehydrated food didn’t agree with them. Imagine being that guy to have clogged the spaceship’s toilet for the entire trip
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!
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
imagine watching the globe for explosions visible from space. that’s gotta be worse than waiting for a headline.
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Apparently b-52s have already taken off from the UK. it’s a 7 hour flight
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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.
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!
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?!?!
I think I’ve found my new wallpaper.
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
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.
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See? Earth is just a bent flat disk! Knew it!
I cant see the elephants or the turtle.
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.
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.
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
It’s a very efficient royalty-free codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF?wprov=sfla1
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).
Native iOS image format I think, AV1 derived?
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
That “highest resolution image of the moon” user on Reddit is gonna have to find a new gimmick.
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?
WHERE ARE THE REBEL BASES!?
Rebels cum?
Photographed on a iPhone 17 Pro Max
