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NASA, ESA Release First 8K Video From Space (engadget.com)
NASA and the European Space Agency have released the first 8K ultra high definition video filmed in space. It was shot with a RED Helium 8K camera and provides a glimpse of what the astronauts are working on aboard the International Space Station. Engadget reports: The camera was delivered to the ISS in April by a SpaceX cargo resupply mission, and the new video shows astronauts living aboard the ISS as they work and conduct experiments. Some of the experiments included in the video are the BEST investigation, which uses DNA sequencing to identify microbes in the space station; an experiment that compares plants grown in space to those grown on Earth; and the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sediment particles. "We're excited to embrace new technology that improves our ability to engage our audiences in space station research," David Brady, assistant program scientist for the ISS Program Science Office at Johnson, said in a statement. "Each improvement in imagery fidelity brings that person on Earth closer to the in-space experience, allowing them to see what human spaceflight is doing to improve their life, as well as enable humanity to explore the universe."
But fuck 8K if you're gonna YouTube it and spoil all that pixel-y goodness with:
1) Very lossy compression
2) Low framerate
for those BRAND-NEW 8k TVs! Now you have a reason! Be sure to sit up close, closer, closlier, there. Nose against the 8k TV screen. That's the way you do it for your M^HNASATV.
Never noticed until today, engadget does not want to deliver me the news page without login, huh? (in Europe right now) :-/
Or do you mean 7.5 K?
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
NRO would like to have a word with you.
I thought I'd see an anus in 8K before Uranus.
Damn, that place is cluttered.
It's like they only built the Jefferies tube and forgot the rest of the starship!
/greger
All ten people in the world who own such screens will surely enjoy the video.
Fake CGI now in 8K?
Nice.
Many of the interior shots seem to show an accumulating amount of defective pixels, up to a few dozen; mainly permanent white ones. I'm thinking that the camera's CCDs aren't designed to stand up to the relatively high amount of high-energy radiation in low-earth orbit.
evidenced by we haven't started to grow wings yet we want to invade the universe? as for our distracted abused spirits,, flying won't help much if we cannot get along on the ground? smell the poetry of creation? beware falling gargoyles.. especially the cement ones..
Ain't no space cause ain't not globe earth
rocket ships ( ) ):::::::::::::::D~~~~~
I have a 8K monitor...here is what the original video looks like at native resolution. Wow! BTW, it only plays properly with GPU acceleration enabled in ffplay (with Nvidia GPU: ffplay -vcodec hevc_cuvid First-8K-Video-from-Space~orig.mp4). Otherwise, it's unwatchable. Here are some screenshots: http://www.andrewwatters.com/r...
There are a lot of stuck pixels in the camera they are using.
I initially misread
"the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sediment particles"
as
"the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sentient particles"
but I corrected myself within a few hundred milliseconds...