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Where's it made? Who brought it here? How much were they paid? Who makes it? Is it made in separate parts and put together? How much were they all paid to do this? Where do they get the materials? Who paid for that? Who brings it there? How much were they paid? Who streamlined the base materials? How much were they paid? Who gathered the base materials? Where? How much were they paid? Is it good for them? Is it good for us? Is it good for the land? Is it necessary? Is it biodegradable? How much does it hurt? Do I need it? Do I even want it?

sirfrogsworth

Corksniffing losers have to sully an awesome new space photo just to erroneously claim film is inherently superior.

I think this version is the original color processed version, which is still not as saturated or contrasty.

That's still an amazing result just from darkroom processing, but the deep blue version in the tweet definitely needed some help from Photoshop. And, personally, I think they overdid it.

The new photo was actually taken in darkness. It is a moonlit photo taken at extremely high gain (ISO 52,000). They did a long exposure to make it appear as if it were as bright as day. But without significant editing, that is going to make the colors less saturated and reduce the contrast.

The same thing would happen with film.

This is another version they did with a more accurate-to-eyeballs exposure.

Film is great.

Digital is great.

Space is great.

thefrogman

I love film.

But it was not a great medium for space.

Most astronauts are fighter pilots. And there are only a few who are genuine photographers. You can train a fighter pilot to competently use a camera, but becoming a good photographer during the days of film usually took years of practice.

During the Apollo days they would send them up there with the best camera available. Usually a 70mm Hasselblad medium format. But the astronauts proved that the only way to get amazing photos without being a photographer was mostly down to luck.

We see the best photos they took, but those only amount to a handful. And as you saw above, NASA often had to do a lot of darkroom magic to make them aesthetically pleasing.

If you look at the Apollo archives, you can find hundreds of photos like this.

I'm fond of this one.

There was no instant feedback. They didn't have any instincts for settings or focus or composition. Most of the time they were just collecting visual data.

But every once in a while the stars aligned and they took absolute bangers.

That flag one is amazingly composed. But it took them a few tries.

Digital cameras give you a better baseline of quality. They can focus for you. They can meter for you. And they have high ISO gain that film could never touch.

They are... fighter pilot friendly.

With digital, they can look at the back screen and see if they bungled the exposure.

If they take a photo like this...

They get instant feedback and can be like, "Houston, where is exposure compensation?"

There is an undeniable ineffable quality that film sometimes delivers. But the medium is far less important than the skill of the person taking the photo.

Don Pettit is my favorite astronaut photographer. A true artist.

He really makes you forget about whether film is better than digital. He makes one remember that the person taking the photo is the paramount variable.

There is a great interview from Smarter Every Day where Don talks about how he captures amazing photos from space.

hst3000

You didn't mention one of the biggest hurdles for the Apollo photographers.

It's really hard to line up a composition when your camera doesn't have a viewfinder and you can't get it closer than three or four inches from your eyes through a curved faceplate.

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the-goddamn-robot

Damn, Rome really looks great in all four seasons

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

ba7raltawil

oh my GOD

yomikoreadsbooks

As long as I’ve been on this site, I honestly should have seen this coming a mile away and yet…

cartooncoyote

This is actually the best intro to a porno that has ever existed

annalatzer

I drew a comic about how I imagine meeting an eel will go

menlove-archive

I've never played a more perfect card in the 10 years I've been playing this game

frodo-a-gogo

-1 Logic: Surely if I explain it *this time* then I'll say it all. I'll say it all. I'll say it all.

-1 Composure: SHUT! UP! SHUT UP, NOW!

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Sneak peak of a thought project that pops up in the 4rth installment of Thought Project: Relapse, available on my patreon right now.

francisforever2014

black sails is like my ideal show in terms of gay characters bc the gay women are fucking and sucking constantly and engaging in dyke drama that amounts to playing 5d chess blindfolded and the gay men are playing repression olympics and exclusively pining and mourning and yearning from afar and always reaching for what they can’t (or won’t let themselves) have. like exactlyyyyyyyy

srsfunny

Hospital T-Rex

official-liberty-prime-deactiva

Imagine being rushed into the ER and reading this as they push you through though

king-in-yellow

Lol when my appendix burst, I had initially refused to go to the ER because it was a Saturday night (which are always busy helltimes for ERs of course) - and when I arrived I was told there were eight people ahead of me. I agreed and just asked for something to drink and something for the nausea. They took my vital signs, looked at each other, and then whisked me back immediately to a room and within five minutes the ER attending physician came in (as opposed to a resident physician).

“Hahaha, holy shit, am I dying?” I asked him - because HOSPITAL T-REX IS CORRECT

ionlylooklikeahipster

Okay but the T-Rex has abs drawn onto it in pen.

christopher-bryant

P90 Rex

fallout-lou-begas

it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music

fallout-lou-begas

what is the single best line in this video

it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is

something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is

like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore

the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside

this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent

nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song

theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili

most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida

it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees

something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?

to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.

what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?

Voting ended onFeb 11

character limit forced me to paraphrase

craymor1

yeah,

lackadaisycats

February in St. Louis. (And in our hearts.)

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

I mean obviously I would fuck a monster but more than that I would bond emotionally with a monster over our shared sense of alienation and rejection from a hostile universe. together we would explore our deep-seated fear of being inherently unlovable, and reassure each other of our innate value as sentient beings deserving of love and kindness. i will hold them gently, and wipe the tears from their googly eyestalk-tentacles, and something will begin to heal

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

and then we fuck nasty, im not a saint