> Collins, who remained in orbit on the Command Module, is behind the lens. Every other human is in front of it. This caption is so powerful.
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#12It's hard to believe that it's been over 50 years since humans have been outside of low earth orbit. It's like we sprinted forward so fast, going from horse drawn carriage to space flight in a generation, only to get frightened and recede back from the highest point, never to go back. Granted there has been an enormous amount of innovation in the last 50 years, but by some accounts we've been going backwards. Humans…
I think it’s a case of picking the low hanging fruits once the technology is unlocked, then moving on.
We have the same not only with space but with everything.
Steampunk is essentially the feature we never had with advanced enough mechanical machines. Somehow we sprinted towards harnessing the energy of the steam stoping short from coal powered AI robots but was that the case? IMHO what happened is, we exploited the feasible part and moved on.
The same with space. With the science and tech we harnessed so far, it’s simply not feasible to do more than what we have done already. With the advancements made in recent decades, some more stuff might have moved within the range of feasible but nothing revolutionary. We are not going to the nearest star anytime soon and that’s not simply because we lost interest in it. The best we probably can do in human travel is Mars.
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#13> "I was guided throughout by two principles: - be true to the photographs - be true to the Earth [...] The main changes I made were: [...] - adjusting the black point until the background of space appears truly black" These shots are beautiful, but is making the background completely black really doing reality justice? In our unfortunately light polluted night sky we can barely see the stars, but shouldn't the astro…
A bright moon surface and fully lit Earth hanging in the sky is also a sort of "light pollution" for the human eye ;) (at least it will cause the pupil to close and let less light through, tuning out the dim stars, same effect why there are no stars in the moon photos). Of course I haven't been to the moon so far and can't really know what the sky actually looks like during "moon day" :)
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#14Site seems to be down.
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#15> Collins, who remained in orbit on the Command Module, is behind the lens. Every other human is in front of it. This caption is so powerful.
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#16I always wonder what happens to you psychologically when you see something like this. As one of the astronauts I mean.
Surely, once you've returned, nothing will be as it used to.
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#17I always wonder what happens to you psychologically when you see something like this. As one of the astronauts I mean. Surely, once you've returned, nothing will be as it used to.
It's called the "overview effect": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
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#18Haha is that what they're calling it now? "Restored"?
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#19I always wonder what happens to you psychologically when you see something like this. As one of the astronauts I mean. Surely, once you've returned, nothing will be as it used to.
It's called the "overview effect": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
I can get just a tiny grasp of the power of that sight just by looking at the photos, and can't imagine what would be like experiencing it in 1st person.
This brings the hope that one day when every human would be able to experience it, we'll create a utopistic Trek-ish reality in which people suddenly become less selfish and put the common good above idiocies such as nationalism or the pursuit of immense wealth at the expense of others.
Hopefully one day seeing the Earth from orbit will become sort of a rite of passage for kids.
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#20It's hard to believe that it's been over 50 years since humans have been outside of low earth orbit. It's like we sprinted forward so fast, going from horse drawn carriage to space flight in a generation, only to get frightened and recede back from the highest point, never to go back. Granted there has been an enormous amount of innovation in the last 50 years, but by some accounts we've been going backwards. Humans…
Technology has not regressed since the 1970s though. We have the latent capability to go any time we want, it’s just very expensive and there’s no point.