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First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon
dazza101 writes "For the first time ever, we have witnessed a solar eclipse from the moon. On 10 February 2009 Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter captured the sight of the Earth eclipsing the sun. The spacecraft also recorded this video showing the Earth surrounded by a glowing ring and briefly forming the classic diamond ring that often occurs during a solar eclipse, as seen from down here on Earth."
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IMHO video like that is all the justification we need for a space program. It would've better if there had been a someone there to see it with their eyes.
+1 fashionably cynical
This is indeed one of the most amazing photos I have seen. Yeah, nebula are pretty, galaxies are neato and we all like those quirky things that radio telescopes find, but this is our planet. Somewhere on that black circle with the little white halo... somewhere on that is where I am. My house, my work, my friends. I might have been asleep when that was taken, I might have beer right here at work.
And while I was doing all that, someone took a few amazing photos. Kudos to them!
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He's basically saying, in Japanese, that this picture was sponsored by JAXA (the Japanese space agency) and NHK (a Japanese television station). It's a joke.
shashin = picture
suponsaa = sponser
okurishimasu = i'll send you, i'll forward to you
This is the Japanese version of "brought to you by $SPONSORS" that any anime or Japanese television fan would recognize as they say it after the credits of nearly every show.
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Ha ha, you dumb bastard. It's not a schooner, it's a SAILBOAT.
Okay, well then assuming either they watch it in japan, or get the fansubs and happen to speak japanese, because to a non-japanese speaker that's just going to sound like "blahblahblahblah." Speaking from experience, I do watch fansubs and only started remembering what they said when I started taking japanese.
Another finding: the excuse for not doing your japanese homework "I'll just learn it by watching a lot of anime" is a whole lot more fun but absolutely does not work, at least for some people (sample size = 1).