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How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History
The Bad Astronomer writes "On December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts saw the Earth rising over the limb of the Moon. The photo they took of this moment — dubbed Earthrise — has become an icon of our need to explore, and to protect our home world. NASA has just released a video explaining how the astronauts were able to capture this unique moment, which included a dash of both coincidence and fast teamwork."
Perspective is such a wonderful thing
People should get out and about more
The perspective from the moon makes it important because it fuels the need to explore. That's why the iconic moment is important.
FUCK! China landed a probe on the moon. Dammit we haven't done a damm thing in ages.
Good for China. Now how many probes do they have on Mars? We just landed, what, our 4th rover?
CHINA. you know those guys who make all our cheap plastic walmart crap... is now kicking our asses in space.
Let me know when China lands men on the moon, or anything on Mars. Personally, I'm also super impressed with the Cassini mission. Did you know that Titan has lakes?
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It only strikes you as interesting because you have no idea how cameras, eyes, and exposure work. The rest of us aren't completely retarded.
We look like such fools.. Talk up how awesome NASA was!
The other way to look at it is; "look how awesome NASA used to be - let's fund them again, and get more awesome like this, dammit!"
that there seems to been a bit of a disagreement as to whether they should even be snapping that photo.
I can understand that. Film* was a precious commodity and they didn't want to miss a required shot by snapping a bunch of unplanned crap.
*Don't ask, kid. And stay off my lawn!
Have gnu, will travel.