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A rocket carrying human beings going to space to live for a few days in zero gravity, viewed from an airplane carrying hundreds of humans 30,000 feet in the air, filmed on a camera that fits into your pocket. Do we need any more proof that human beings are incredible?
Or that fossil fuels are incredible...
A rocket carrying human beings going to space to live for a few days in zero gravity, viewed from an airplane carrying hundreds of humans 30,000 feet in the air, filmed on a camera that fits into your pocket. Do we need any more proof that human beings are incredible?
And yet despite all this amazing intellectual capability we seem somehow unable to balance a government budget, year after year after year. Hmmmmmm....
In that context, the technical wizardry isn't the miracle, the miracle is that the stupid monkeys could cooperate long enough to actually get it done.
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
How do you know someone has an iPhone? They'll tell you.
The guy who took the video doesn’t mention his iPhone anywhere, not in the title, not in the video description.
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
The headline “Smartphone Films Final Discovery Launch From 30,000 Feet Up” would be just as good but complaining about the additional (albeit irrelevant) information in the real headline seems just strange.
The information in the headline that this was taken by a smartphone is certainly valuable – you immediately know that this is not about professional video footage for example from a NASA plane but amateur footage taken from a commercial airliner which is a lot cooler.
Does it really annoy you and all the people who upvoted you so much that the writer of the headline (not even the guy who took and published the video) went that small extra step and mentioned the specific model of the device used to capture the video and not just the general category? Why exactly?
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
The specific device is irrelevant and so is your question. The headline “Smartphone Films Final Discovery Launch From 30,000 Feet Up” would be just as good but complaining about the additional (albeit irrelevant) information in the real headline seems just strange. The information in the headline that this was taken by a smartphone is certainly valuable – you immediately know that this is not about professional video…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet despite all this amazing intellectual capability we seem somehow unable to balance a government budget, year after year after year. Hmmmmmm....
Everything is amazing and nobody's happy.
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
The specific device is irrelevant and so is your question. The headline “Smartphone Films Final Discovery Launch From 30,000 Feet Up” would be just as good but complaining about the additional (albeit irrelevant) information in the real headline seems just strange. The information in the headline that this was taken by a smartphone is certainly valuable – you immediately know that this is not about professional video…
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
The specific device is irrelevant and so is your question. The headline “Smartphone Films Final Discovery Launch From 30,000 Feet Up” would be just as good but complaining about the additional (albeit irrelevant) information in the real headline seems just strange. The information in the headline that this was taken by a smartphone is certainly valuable – you immediately know that this is not about professional video…
Ya I was watching the launch on tv, then stepped outside and you could see it from the other side of Florida, I've seen a launch up in close once, to bad I was really really sick to enjoy it.