Mars Curiosity Rover Shoots Video of Phobos Moon Rising 67
An anonymous reader writes "This movie clip shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity in a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly after sunset. Phobos first appears near the lower center of the view and moves toward the top of the view. The clip runs at accelerated speed; the amount of time covered in it is about 27 minutes"
Re:spectacular ... not (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:spectacular ... not (Score:5, Insightful)
Either your expectations are too high, or your sense of wonder is too low, to get much out of this. Personally, I loved it.
Sigh... Louis C.K. was correct, "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy": http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5d0_everything-is-amazing-and-nobody-i_fun [dailymotion.com]
Re:spectacular ... not (Score:5, Insightful)
To be fair, it is a little disappointing. I mean, I could have taken a much better video than this. Except for the whole "having to take the video from fucking Mars" part.
Re:spectacular ... not (Score:4, Insightful)
I think the problem is that unless you're very familiar with Mars and its satellites it's a little bit of a let down to see a group of pixels move across the screen, rather than the stunning moon rise we see regularly here on earth. I know I was.
Nope. If you stop and think about it for even 1 second you get this:
It's a moonrise ON ANOTHER PLANET!
ANOTHER PLANET!!!!
A MOONRISE ON ANOTHER PLANET!!!!
Basically if those words alone aren't enough then you have no soul. And I don't even believe in the existence of souls.
Re:spectacular ... not (Score:2, Insightful)
General Life Protip: People who generally describe everything in absolutes and black-and-white scenarios, are usually very very likely to be morons too dumb to see that it's not that simple. This does not exclude this Protip.
Also, I think if you're still fascinated by boring gray rocks that all look alike, you haven't seen *shit*. Any stone pit is more "fascinating" than that. You've seen one gray rock you've seen 'em all. And to any being with a healthy brain everything that's not new anymore, and also not a basic instinct, automatically becomes boring. Only people with no memory are fascinated by the same lame thing over and over again.
Maybe you should go out more often. There are *vastly* more amazing things out there. Go the other path; say hello to that unknown girl there; buy something else than plain vanilla ice cream; fap with the other hand... you know... explore reality for a change.
Suddenly "yet another gray rock in space" will become veery boooring. Especially if you have seen a thousand of them.
Re:spectacular ... not (Score:4, Insightful)
I for one was disappointed, but only because I fully expected to see evidence of leather goddesses [wikipedia.org].
Damnit.
OTOH, the sense of wonder was less to do with eye-candy, and more to do with mentally placing myself on that remote plain, watching the thing rise. Sort of like how I felt the first time I saw a satellite pass over on a clear, moonless evening in the country.
Sure, it's just a dot, but as someone elsewhere in here said, when you know a little about what you're watching, that little moving dot becomes pretty fricking amazing.