I've been trying to figure out how the atmospheric glow was visible without backlighting and it never occurred to me that it's the dark side with the gain cranked. That explains the stars.
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Mark McCaughreanYou'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun 🌕
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
Years and years ago I pulled a vinyl copy of Idda-gadda-da-vida out of the trash and cleaned it up, mostly just because it was a fun piece of psychedelic cover art. The LP would play but it was terrible, you know. Garbage quality.
Today I ran it through an ultrasonic cleaner for 10 minutes and it sounds brand new. No pops or clicks or noise. It's like magic.
(it's 17 minutes long, one whole side of the LP)
Low Quality Facts
Daniel PomarèdeArtemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
#Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #aurora
Hacker Memes
My neighbor stole 40 gallons of sap from trees and all they gave me in return was this gallon of brown goo!
bgm
Fi 🏳️⚧️So it's TDOV again apparently.
Which means it's five years that I've been out publicly.
There's about 1 or 2% of us in the population, so you probably know at least a couple others.
I tend to be more visible than other trans folks, in part because I can be. There's a lot of us who aren't as obvious or as loud about it.
A lot of us tend to be shockingly competent and capable, tho at least some of that is survivorship bias.
Most of us want to be able to live our lives in peace, tho there's some really loud assholes who have unreasonable objections to this.
Ultimately we're people, just like you - with our own hopes and fears and joys and challenges.
And if you ask me - I think we're pretty fucking awesome. Why don't you get to know us and find out why?