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Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic 'Snow' On the Surface of a Comet (gizmodo.com)
Press2ToContinue shares a report from Gizmodo: What you're looking at is the surface of the comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is orbited by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe. The photo comes from Rosetta's OSIRIS, or Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System. The raw data was collected on June 1, 2016, and posted publicly on March 22 of this year. Twitter user landru79 processed the gif from this data release and shared it yesterday. In the foreground is the comet's surface (still several kilometers away from the probe), and three kinds of specks. The stars in the background belong to the constellation Canis Major, according to ESA senior advisor Mark McCaughrean. Some of the foreground stuff could be streaks from high-energy particles striking the cameraâ"it's a charge-coupled device (CCD), so even invisible particles can leave streaks in the results. And some could be dust from the comet itself.
and take it down to K Str. If you see the Baunhof you went too far.
New Gif?
Who cares about the image format in such a context?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Only stars and dust, no high energy particles in these photographs, is what the experts are writing.
Well, the last time we had an earth-shaking announcement about a comet, the story wasn't the comet. This article buries the lede and doesn't address the real story here: what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? Because we know, from direct empirical observation, that that information is more important than humanity literally landing on a comet.
The spokesman's description of the difficulty of the Rosetta mission? "She's sexy, but I never said she was easy." The reaction was immediate:
"His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object."The Bad Astronomy blog said: If you think this is just a bunch of prudes, you're wrong. It's not about the prurience. It's about the atmosphere of denigration.
Speaking for the highly respected The Atlantic, journalist Rose Eveleth brilliantly captured what that shirt represents in a community that continues to struggle, if not outright fail, to respect women: No no women are toooootally welcome in our community, just ask the dude in this shirt.
The spokesman broke down in tears the next day and apologized. He said, "I made a big mistake and I offended many people and I am very sorry about this."
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
humanity literally landing on a comet
Well, humanity didn't literally land on a comet.
At least, I didn't.
Now what's your point? Why is all of this so important to you?
You seem to be emotionally very involved in that thing (that'd be OK), but make a then huge mess. You lost me.
3000 degreed scientists can't be wrong
Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit? Either way those a some hot scientists!
I would have written sensational.
Well, not the only reason, but one of the main reasons. I used to care enough to actually log in and take part in the debates, showing my face, because at one time Slashdot was about news that were often overlooked elsewhere - technology, science and even politics with a bit of depth. Now it is no more than run-of-the-mill non-stories like this: pretty pictures (or 'awesome', God help us). You know, science news is so much more than "Wow, look at this!!!", tech news is much deeper than "Wow, company X just brought this Fab New Gadget For Idiots to market!!!", politics ought to be more than bickering stupidly with semi-literate fascists. And so on.
Yeah, maybe it all boils down to what the marketing executives think will attract the nano-second attention span of those stupid enough to actually look at adverts online; being marketing suits, they don't really understand or care, but they do like a glossy picture. To hell with it; maybe I should just stop being sentimental. And maybe all of us who can't be bothered with slashdot any more, should demand that they do what they are legally required to do in most countries: delete our data when we demand they do so (which they boldly state that they refuse to do, last I checked).
Boring like couch covers and curtains.
So girls, be brave, wear a shirt with the statue of david with his dick out
Fuck ya all who are sensitive , the human race would not advance and duplicate without :) Yes some girls are ditsy and girly, just the way some us like.
good sex and sexy ladies
If you take high-fidelity video material and reduce the number of colors, resolution, and frame rate, down to the complete 30 year old crap that is GIF, before you re-post it on the internet, then you are most likely stupid.
As long as we don't keep telling people to stop the GIF stupidity, it will continue.
This is DNS-and-Bind. His hobbies are mocking the West and starting arguments.
3000 degreed scientists can't melt steel beams.
A 12 year old can create gifs online
UHH a GIF!
Gizmodo sucks.
L'Idiot
Anyone got a direct link to the GIF?
Stupid Twitter is unusable with w3m.
Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.
I for one welcome our new speck overloards. May your reign be wipe free.
This news is just in time.
Seems to be a little different. It's a 25 minute video that has been compressed in that GIF, so the effect is 'dramatized'. https://www.livescience.com/62... According to that report, the GIF, impressive as it is, is somewhat misleading.
They don't need to melt. Steel gets very soft when heated. You could try it yourself with a 4mm thick of steel rod, a candle (1000C) and two pliers. I'd provide more details, but I'm afraid you would hurt yourself. Maybe get your mom to show you.
Which is the main point nobody seems to care about.
Your comment on the time lapse is quite relevant though, as opposed to all the posts about GIF format.
Funny that we can get this incredible, mind boggling footage and yet, we still don't know if the earth is flat or not...
Oh the memories. Seems like only a few days ago.
n/t
Have gnu, will travel.
If I had seen that animation without knowing where it's from, I'd probably assume it was from a crap movie. Because as it turns out, in real life, the effects are shit! :D
It *is* crazy cool considering it is real though.
Watching the dynamic equilibrium of a far space body.
i'm getting old, and I am REALLY excited at the things I never thought I'd live to see, now become real.
I don't want to die and miss the next 100 years. Damn!!
I think I just had a nerdgasm (but it's been so long I can't be sure).
Stories like this should be the norm on Slashdot. The social justice warfare and political articles should be the exception.