But how did they composite 81,000 images without worrying about atmospheric lensing distorting the proportions as it moved across the sky for 4 days? Is it just negligible?
The Samsung moon actually just makes up a plausible looking moon, which is hilarious given that the moon essentially doesn’t change, so they could have just overlayed reference images. Instead, you get features on the moon that don’t exist.
They didn’t. What they did was take 81,000 images and then filter through, them taking the best images of each region of the Moon and then averaging and compositing those.
It isn’t 81k images stitched together. It’s 81k images taken in the hopes of getting enough with perfect clarity to create the composite.
Obviously NASA engineers don't ever go to Youtube, I'm sure looking up "asteroid sampler stuck" there would have been a number of hack DIYers who showed a variety of techniques they've used.
Some of Musk’s bootlickers have said to me, offline in person, that the le epic Starlink debris in space fucking with astronomy (as it has for a while now) “will only encourage the exodus off planet” followed by the PR spiel about “humans must become interplanetary species.”
May as well say that the cradle must be burned with the baby in it so the baby is encouraged to compete in Olympic track and field.
All those sci-fi movies about human beings acting as an interplanetary infection only to find retribution at the hands (paws? Claws? Appendages) of an eldritch creature taught us nothing 😔
A nonlinear study refers to an approach that does not follow a straight, sequential path in analyzing or modeling phenomena. Instead, it allows for complex relationships where changes in one variable do not directly correspond to changes in another, often leading to unpredictable outcomes. In the article, a Princeton scientist explored the nonlinear dynamics of boson stars, a type of black hole mimicker. His research revealed unique gravitational wave signals during mergers, distinct from those of traditional black holes, which could aid in identifying these mimickers in future gravitational wave observation
It’s insane what these people do. They’re rewriting code from the 60s to use even less memory, have to test it in production without physical access, and it takes two days to see if anything changes. It’s an insane piece of engineering and it’s incredible that it’s still sending useful data.
I’d love to see what their test environments are like. You can’t test everything, but they can certainly test some things. A raspberry pi has more software capability.
So basically 72 flights into it’s 5 flight mission it went to far over the horizon and lost line of sight. So they have to drive over to it to re-establish communication.
They’ve done good already, they don’t need to go this hard.
They went so hard they went over the horizon and lost coms.
Because it’s autonomous it’s likely still operational, they just have to get close to it.
This is an old article. It references the Batygin and Brown paper from 2016. As of 2024, it is still considered possible, but no direct evidence has been observed, and alternative explanations have been proposed, according to Wikipedia.
Things are looking pretty grim for planet nine, it’s running out of places to hide. It was a cool hypothesis and a gutsy prediction, but I’m afraid that it’s not going to work out.
Won’t the Vera Rubin Telescope (formerly LSST) settle this? It’s going to observe the entire night sky every few nights and provide enough data to find nearby moving objects.
This paper seems to be dated 18 April, 2024. Wouldn’t surprise me if its some sort of re-print, but otherwise would explain why this topic popped up in the media over the last few days. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.11594.pdf
Way to dishonor Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, Mary Jackson and everyone else who were women and/or those who were of different race who helped us get to the moon and back.
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