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.
That “highest resolution image of the moon” user on Reddit is gonna have to find a new gimmick.
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.
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 what about the wars???
How are we supposed to fund them if we’re doing stuff that’s good for all of mankind?!?!
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.
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
Best photo of the moon made by a regular camera.
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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
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+.
That’s only fifteen PSI.
My tires have forty.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
WHERE ARE THE REBEL BASES!?
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.
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.
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.
To be fair a lot of meteors hit earths atmosphere and disintegrate. Poor moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to protect it though
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.
That looks like a fluffy gray round bread.
Where can I find a high res version of this?
You’re in for a treat.
Lemmy hug of death?
I think I’ve found my new wallpaper.
