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A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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To be fair, people have been studying and predicting celestial movements for millennia, and boiled it down to unbelievably precise mechanical formulae. JS is poorly understood in comparison. I say this to hope you feel better at work. I've been pressed into frontend web work and it's fractal complexity.

Yes, but you're wading into the JavaScript weeds for what? More CRUD forms? Meanwhile... "With a combination of large ground-based FORTRAN programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, [Real Programmers] are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation -- hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and…

Those are impressive sounding achievements. I haven't heard of all of those, can you provide references or details about the stories?

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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Unfortunately Twitter butchers video quality. I remade both landru79's videos from scratch using original ESA 2048x2048 image sequence (plus I added a bit of motion interpolation): http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.webm [50MB] http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta_stars.mp4 [28MB] ----- Edit: in case my server doesn't hold up, here are video mirrors on Streamable: https://streamable.com/w2wgj https:…

What is that light on the left?

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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post #48

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Yes, but you're wading into the JavaScript weeds for what? More CRUD forms? Meanwhile... "With a combination of large ground-based FORTRAN programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, [Real Programmers] are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation -- hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and…

Those are impressive sounding achievements. I haven't heard of all of those, can you provide references or details about the stories?

I'd like to, but the original was from "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post: http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers

You would be better off asking him about the veracity of the stories.

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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Unfortunately Twitter butchers video quality. I remade both landru79's videos from scratch using original ESA 2048x2048 image sequence (plus I added a bit of motion interpolation): http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.webm [50MB] http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta_stars.mp4 [28MB] ----- Edit: in case my server doesn't hold up, here are video mirrors on Streamable: https://streamable.com/w2wgj https:…

Would love to see these without the frame interpolation (which totally chokes on all the particulate matter).

Here I made one for you, using just the original frames:

Video: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.original.mp4 [15MB]

Mirror: https://streamable.com/l9x1o

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Extra: I also attempted to denoise somehow (with Gimp's despeckle filter), though it's kinda weird :)

https://streamable.com/hy6lm

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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Would love to see these without the frame interpolation (which totally chokes on all the particulate matter).

Here I made one for you, using just the original frames: Video: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.original.mp4 [15MB] Mirror: https://streamable.com/l9x1o ---- Extra: I also attempted to denoise somehow (with Gimp's despeckle filter), though it's kinda weird :) https://streamable.com/hy6lm

Beautiful!

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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Moving at 135,000 km/h relative to what? (honest question)

I guess relative to the stars in the image, using parallax.

No, relative to the stars it's going a LOT faster than that!

Most likely it's relative to the sun.

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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JS is poorly understood in comparison This might be the most hilariously ridiculous true statement I've ever heard.

In javascript: x == x _ is true. Good. x == !x _ is also true. Oops? And guess what: Array(3)==",," _ is also true. But NaN == NaN _ is false. Math.max()>Math.min() _ is also false! but then again Math.max() Madness, I tell you!

:D Many more Javascript WTF's here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=javascript+wtf

Re: A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

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JS is poorly understood in comparison This might be the most hilariously ridiculous true statement I've ever heard.

But they're close to getting two numbers to add together! https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/933447631514169344

They should use jQuery for that. I hear it's good for all the things.
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