Visions of the Future
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Visions of the Future
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#2Lovely stuff. Reminds me of old British railway posters ...but in space!
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#3I love these and wanted prints of them for myself and thought others might too (and I own a printery), so: http://www.artfrom.space
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#4I have a lot of respect both for the artists that made this and for the scientists pushing boundaries forward in a way that was almost inconceivable a decade ago.
That said, if anyone here works at JPL, I can't be (but feel like I am) the only person wondering what the hell happened to memex-explorer.
We are talking about the obvious change in search. If you are not familiar, the memex-explorer project seemed to be the first company that realized an open source tailored version of google can ve assembled out of Apache open source projects. You define a crawl structure and save your data into silos you control while using your own parameters to search.
However, despite what appeared to be solid progress and the initial buzz of articles labeling the google killer- and to be clear this tech will evolve in 1-2 years and diminish googles adverts, the project has a simple commit that says:
Not actively maintained.
Why did JPL stop working on this? Darpa brought the world TOR so they do deliver projects that could potentially be problematic to the gov't, so I don't want to jump into conspiracy theories, but what the fuck.
Tl;dr super obvious hadoop, solr, dns and elastic search is pretty much google and the browser can never be decoupled from search. JPL got close to giving the user all 3 in unity under their control and then project was abandoned. I'll say it i guess, having 50% concentration in browsing and the only proper centralization of most peoples thoughts is a big loss to google, and if I am being honest I think the govt.
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#5Am I the only one getting bad CRC errors when extracting the files from the zip with all the images?
$ sha256sum ALL_POSTERS.zip
b77b67acc0d1a74cfe79ad1c223ccf801da5651b407e60d7ce225cda31623354 ALL_POSTERS.zip
It's a 672'712'771 bytes file.
The single image downloads seems to be OK.
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#6I have a lot of respect both for the artists that made this and for the scientists pushing boundaries forward in a way that was almost inconceivable a decade ago. That said, if anyone here works at JPL, I can't be (but feel like I am) the only person wondering what the hell happened to memex-explorer. We are talking about the obvious change in search. If you are not familiar, the memex-explorer project seemed to be t…
Why don't you e-mail continuum and report back:
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#7I love these and wanted prints of them for myself and thought others might too (and I own a printery), so: http://www.artfrom.space
Shipping to US only :(
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#8Ah yes, the infamous photobombing Cowboys of Europa...
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#9FTA:
> Imagination is our window into the future.
Maybe. But the outlook is from the past, and is subject to the past's failures and to failures of the imagination that are due to the juvenile foible of nostalgia. These posters are, after all, riffs in the genre of travel marketing, which is designed to sell the experience of a place as more than it is; they push a particular and motivated hyper-reality. This betrays their appeal as a longing to be deceived, a longing that is all too happily filled by the marketing arm of JPL.
The very idea that "space travel" is anything like "travel" in the vacationing sense is mere wordplay. Who among us can take 4 years off to "vacation" to Mars? Or 3 for Venus, to stare at the clouds? Who among us wants to die of embrittled bones and radiation sickness in a tin can?
No proper vision of the future can come from the myopic eyes developed in the dim light of popular history. These posters are adolescent fantasy, and mature minds knowingly smirk at the naivete of those so stunted as to be taken in.
EDIT: FWIW, I expect the down-votes. Bringing reality into a discussion about space fantasy always brings down-votes. It's a measure of the quality of discussion on HN.
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#10These are great. Something I've always found interesting is how often "looking to the future" campaigns harken back to decades-old iconic art styles. That's not a criticism. I love the juxtaposition of concept and style.
Side note: Am I the only one that sees the No Man's Sky reference in the Venus poster?