If you’ve been walking around on that thing taking pictures, please take off your shoes before coming in the house. I don’t want to be vacuuming stardust and radiation from the carpets for the next week.
and don't be leaving out that "h" either, it's Pittsburgh and that poor little letter had to work very hard to not get dropped like all the other, lesser -burgs
Yeah. You know what it’s like to shit openly in a freezing basement next to the washing machine while you read the back of a leaky detergent jug sitting in a Giant Eagle bag on the floor or try to make out the text on a 40-year-old Folgers can filled with rusty nails? Probably not. But Pittsburghers do.
it gave the apollo astronauts some difficulty after their moonwalks and were back in their spacecraft, caked in moondust, that never were 'smoothed out' by natural atmospheric erosion
i imagine the danger is similar to what the Apollo lunar astronauts experienced - that although they collected a lot of what they thought was harmless moondust, in fact were microparticles that never were exposed to atmospheric erosion. This basically dust made up of tiny pointy shards got everywhere, including the lungs of the astronauts causing coughing fits.
"The bean counters said we could literally not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Did it anyway! Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground-up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill."
That's just the beautiful starry sky, underexposed because of the lit "ground", just like how it happens on the Moon. But I think that if you were there personally and didn't die, and stared up for a while to get used to the low light, the stars might appear for you.
The stars would appear somewhat brighter and much clearer than they do even on the clearest night here on Earth. There's no atmosphere to disperse the light, no external lighting to blow out the stars (turn off your spaceship headlights for the best experience).
Physically yes, but since you are on the lit side, you will struggle with the ultra bright sun also being up in that sky, and the bright rock you are standing on, you would need to make your eyes ignore both of these bright sources of light to notice the relatively much dimmer stars. That why I said look up (to not get blinded by the rocks), but you might also need to cover the sun or something so that doesn't blind you either.
My non-expert "contribution" to the discussion is that I am assuming that the asteroid is spinning pretty rapidly and as such Im guessing the stars would be spinning as the asteroid rotates.
But then if we chose this asteroid to land on.. maybe the rotation is minimal.
yes our eyes are different and better at seeing HDR, but we can still have something like exposure. Our pupils can dilate, and neurons adapt, which makes us to focus our "biological HDR". If you walk from daylight into a dark room with barely any light, it would take a while to begin seeing in such dark, and walking out of such dark room could feel like switching to light mode. We watch stars when it's night on our half of the planet, so there's nothing close to the daylight that we could get accustomed to at night.
It would be one hell of a sight. Let's say that the stars in the night sky are moving from east to west, just like Earth. I think the eastern sky would be blue shifted and the western sky redshifted. So as the stars race across the sky, they would turn from blue to red (that's my guess anyway, based on what little I know about relativistic speeds and the Doppler effect)
I work at NASA and when we release a payload on the dark side of earth is always kind of surreal. It just vanishes into the void, often never seen by eyes again.
Yeah, to know that the dark in this picture is not because it's a picture at night or in a dark cave or room, but it is the dark of nothingness in space, there's no air, no atmosphere, no horizon, just the dark void of space in every direction.
lol I saw a picture taken by the Mars Rover the other day, went to the comments and there were DOZENS of comments saying, "You lost me at NASA" and other things like that, disbelieving that the picture could possibly be real.
We live in a time of stupidity. Please, please, PLEASE, always vote for education funding when you can. If you live in a state where funding for arts and science is being cut please make better choices at the ballot box. Fucking morons everywhere these days.
Nothing, nothing at all.. Thought I was the only one thinking it’s cool asf, and not even jokingly creepy…I guess maybe OP thinks they can somehow get stranded alive on an asteroid or something 🤷♂️🤣
You gotta get there first. And right now, there's not a lot of options. Pretty much only China or India. USA and Russia are out and no way in hell I'm taking a gamble on any billionaire pet projects. I'd rather move slow and not break things.
To me, its the vague familiarity of the view.
Like a friend saying "hey look at this animal I found on my ring doorbell." I know I shouldn't expect to see anything from a camera millions of miles away, on a barren lump of dust thats probably been floating alone for billions of years in silence and cold.
But why do I expect to see the glint of eyes staring back at the camera?
Initially I just thought this is fascinating, not creepy. But now I'm sad that a rock has been lonely for billions of years and would like to give it a hug...
I'm going to bed
This is so amazing, awe inducing. We're looking at something thats barely changed in billions of years. Imagine being a pebble on that thing, especially on an area that isnt touched by solor wind/interstellar medium. Just existing.
I'm 99% sure this was captured by the Philae lander that the European space agency sent to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It launched on an Ariane 5G+ rocket in 2004 and took 10 years to get to the comet.
What would the texture of this be? Is it all 1 big jagged rock? Is it sandy? My brain is telling me it's fluffy like old blown-in insulation in an attic.
So this thing has no atmosphere and floats through space. So what gives the ground that shape? On earth erosion and wind and shifting plates mold the shape of the earth. What determines the hills and valleys on an astroid?
Even without any weathering there can still be landslides and small micrometeorite impacts that mold the shape of the asteroids surface. Rubble tends to pile up at angles limited by the angle of repose just like sand does in sand dunes here on Earth. Combine that with the slight expanding and contracting the asteroid experiences as it basically spit roasts in sunlight and you start to get small fractures in the rock that build up over time. All of these are factors that lead to the surface of an asteroid looking how it does
CyFy Home Inspections comes by... Now, I can't tell you who the builder is but that's a good amount of attic insulation. Unfortunately the void of space is just not up to code.
If you’ve been walking around on that thing taking pictures, please take off your shoes before coming in the house. I don’t want to be vacuuming stardust and radiation from the carpets for the next week.
I call bullshit. This is some dude’s attic in Pittsburgh.
Can confirm.
Source: you’re Pittsburgh
I'm the attic. It's true.
I’ve had friends that were attics, there’s help if you need.
Were they atticted to stardust?
Stardust, Angeldust, Fun Dip, whatever is around really.
Among other carbohydrates.
Attics won’t take our help, they’re above us….
Holy shit how did you know!? I was going to post it looks like my attic.
Is Pittsburg the one with the toilets in the basements?
that's goddamn right
and don't be leaving out that "h" either, it's Pittsburgh and that poor little letter had to work very hard to not get dropped like all the other, lesser -burgs
I appreciate your moxie :)
I appreciate you using the word moxie.
Yeah. You know what it’s like to shit openly in a freezing basement next to the washing machine while you read the back of a leaky detergent jug sitting in a Giant Eagle bag on the floor or try to make out the text on a 40-year-old Folgers can filled with rusty nails? Probably not. But Pittsburghers do.
Same rules apply
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God I was so about to say that surface looks just like a close up of old blown in cellulose lol
I was gonna say that too, spent some time in those attics fishing wire as an electrician
It probably looks like a lot of dudes bedrooms, basements and attics
Definitely insulation in an attic
The dust is razor sharp, too.
An impassible labyrinth of razor sharp rocks?
"That is our road"
What are we waiting for?!
No, it's dust.
(cough)
it gave the apollo astronauts some difficulty after their moonwalks and were back in their spacecraft, caked in moondust, that never were 'smoothed out' by natural atmospheric erosion
It must be like very tiny glass shards.
Yes exactly. It's worse than fiberglass. Moon dust would wreck your lungs if you ended up breathing any of it.
We're made of stardust. And we give off dust (dead cells). Do I need to take off my skin too?
Yes, Adam, you do
Please do, and wring out your organs.
I am rather hydrated
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i imagine the danger is similar to what the Apollo lunar astronauts experienced - that although they collected a lot of what they thought was harmless moondust, in fact were microparticles that never were exposed to atmospheric erosion. This basically dust made up of tiny pointy shards got everywhere, including the lungs of the astronauts causing coughing fits.
So, like space fiberglass?
i believe so, yes. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
"The bean counters said we could literally not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Did it anyway! Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground-up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill."
sigh
yes, mother
"Where did these weird mites come from?"
I cannot imagine how badly it would track. In space, no one can hear you scream, but in my living room you can certainly hear me tell you to get out.
Asteroids aren't particularly radioactive. I dunno what sort of dust they might have though.
I mean, I guess all dust is radioactive to some degree. And I’ll have none of it in my new Stainmasters!
The creepiest part of this pic to me is the black void.
That's just the beautiful starry sky, underexposed because of the lit "ground", just like how it happens on the Moon. But I think that if you were there personally and didn't die, and stared up for a while to get used to the low light, the stars might appear for you.
The stars would appear somewhat brighter and much clearer than they do even on the clearest night here on Earth. There's no atmosphere to disperse the light, no external lighting to blow out the stars (turn off your spaceship headlights for the best experience).
Physically yes, but since you are on the lit side, you will struggle with the ultra bright sun also being up in that sky, and the bright rock you are standing on, you would need to make your eyes ignore both of these bright sources of light to notice the relatively much dimmer stars. That why I said look up (to not get blinded by the rocks), but you might also need to cover the sun or something so that doesn't blind you either.
That's true, but this photo is taken on the night side, the illumination comes from the spacecraft itself (hence why "turn off the headlights")
My non-expert "contribution" to the discussion is that I am assuming that the asteroid is spinning pretty rapidly and as such Im guessing the stars would be spinning as the asteroid rotates.
But then if we chose this asteroid to land on.. maybe the rotation is minimal.
It rotates once about every 7.5 hours.
Why do think it wound spin rapidly? Do other comets do this?
Someone replied that it rotates once every 7.5 hours.
To my mathematically trained brain, thats not very fast at all.
EDIT: Had meant to type "mathmatically UNtrained brain" ;)
Our eyes are logarithmic don’t deal with the same issues as cameras and exposure. You would see the stars lol
The stars don’t vanish here on earth when you use a flashlight and the stars would be far more intense in the void of space.
yes our eyes are different and better at seeing HDR, but we can still have something like exposure. Our pupils can dilate, and neurons adapt, which makes us to focus our "biological HDR". If you walk from daylight into a dark room with barely any light, it would take a while to begin seeing in such dark, and walking out of such dark room could feel like switching to light mode. We watch stars when it's night on our half of the planet, so there's nothing close to the daylight that we could get accustomed to at night.
Curious what the night sky would look like from a neutron star spinning at nearly the speed of light.
It would be one hell of a sight. Let's say that the stars in the night sky are moving from east to west, just like Earth. I think the eastern sky would be blue shifted and the western sky redshifted. So as the stars race across the sky, they would turn from blue to red (that's my guess anyway, based on what little I know about relativistic speeds and the Doppler effect)
I work at NASA and when we release a payload on the dark side of earth is always kind of surreal. It just vanishes into the void, often never seen by eyes again.
Exactly. The void beyond. It goes on forever.
That's one theory.
Mighty Cthulhu cares nothing for your "theories"
Yeah, to know that the dark in this picture is not because it's a picture at night or in a dark cave or room, but it is the dark of nothingness in space, there's no air, no atmosphere, no horizon, just the dark void of space in every direction.
Deep underwater looks like that as well. At a certain depth, no sunlight reaches, so it's just pitch black everywhere.
If it makes you feel any better that same black void surrounds you always.
I've seen pictures of old attic insulation that looks a lot like this!
It's a HOHX!
lol I saw a picture taken by the Mars Rover the other day, went to the comments and there were DOZENS of comments saying, "You lost me at NASA" and other things like that, disbelieving that the picture could possibly be real.
We live in a time of stupidity. Please, please, PLEASE, always vote for education funding when you can. If you live in a state where funding for arts and science is being cut please make better choices at the ballot box. Fucking morons everywhere these days.
It's not a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of trust.
As someone who spends way too much time in attics this looks just like poorly installed insulation.
Made me think of a crawlspace with a dirt floor lol.
I find this oddly comforting, like imagine being Superman and chilling there to take a break from the chaos of the Universe...
Or Dr Manhattan.
with your dick out
If you can't have your pouch out on an asteroid when what has this universe come to
I mean if you CAN teabag a space rock, you might as well go for it.
Yeah this is peaceful as all hell
What exactly is creepy about this rock?
Nothing, nothing at all.. Thought I was the only one thinking it’s cool asf, and not even jokingly creepy…I guess maybe OP thinks they can somehow get stranded alive on an asteroid or something 🤷♂️🤣
You gotta get there first. And right now, there's not a lot of options. Pretty much only China or India. USA and Russia are out and no way in hell I'm taking a gamble on any billionaire pet projects. I'd rather move slow and not break things.
Nothing creepy about this. It's just neat.
To me, its the vague familiarity of the view. Like a friend saying "hey look at this animal I found on my ring doorbell." I know I shouldn't expect to see anything from a camera millions of miles away, on a barren lump of dust thats probably been floating alone for billions of years in silence and cold. But why do I expect to see the glint of eyes staring back at the camera?
Initially I just thought this is fascinating, not creepy. But now I'm sad that a rock has been lonely for billions of years and would like to give it a hug... I'm going to bed
the inability to spell asteroid correctly
The void around this rock, that's what's creepy, i don't think you'll be pleased to be on this rock floating into an abyss of nothingness
I think the feeling of standing on something alien can make some people's socks tingle a bit unsettlingly.
Throw a chupacabra in there for good measure?
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One day this picture will be used for some kind of conspiracy theory, im saving this comment 😂
"I believe it's pronounced Chupa-muh-FLEH-BLAH."
Are we looking at a a small bumpy area like the size of a bedroom or huge mountains?
I want to know also.
It looks like a creepy, old, rodent-infested attic.
I don't care that it doesn't make sense to send oil drillers, it's an amazing movie.
What’s that movie? If it’s space-related I’ll probably be interested in it
Armageddon
"So the scariest place imaginable. That's all you had to say. Scariest place imaginable."
Looks about right.
Not sure why this is creepy.
Sure it wasn't a himroid? Or ass to mouth droid?
Are you easily flightened?
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*asteroid
It looks like a bunch of lint
What if we found human footprints here, barefoot.
Was it taken with a Polroid?
I kinda… wanna pee on it?
Why is this creepy? What am I missing?
This is so amazing, awe inducing. We're looking at something thats barely changed in billions of years. Imagine being a pebble on that thing, especially on an area that isnt touched by solor wind/interstellar medium. Just existing.
What are you doing there?
Can you share the source?
Right!? Posts like this should be removed when OP doesn't provide a source.
This is my loft insulation taken from the loft hatch with flash on
Not me zooming in and scrolling looking for a lil face poking out…
I bet that would do a number on the dinosaurs
If you told me this was taken on the bottom of the ocean I’d believe you
How did you get a picture of my attic?
This is sick
Looks like the 'crawlspace' under my house. Max 25cm clearance under the joists.
- Does anyone happen to know a human beanpole that does insulation? I need my floors insulating.
To me it looks sad. Imagine being a rock floating in darkness for infinity
Sounds like a wonderful time. I'll take 20.
I'm 99% sure this was captured by the Philae lander that the European space agency sent to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It launched on an Ariane 5G+ rocket in 2004 and took 10 years to get to the comet.
This is the asteroid Ryugu, photographed by Hayabusa2
Looks like me and my friends with an digital camera back in 2006 had wandered onto a construction site at night
Big surprise, it's a rock.
Alone at the edge of the universe humming a tune
For merely dreaming we were snow
This is blown in insulation in an attic lol
I thought this was an attic
What would the texture of this be? Is it all 1 big jagged rock? Is it sandy? My brain is telling me it's fluffy like old blown-in insulation in an attic.
Nah bro this the insulation in my attic
Prove it
or it might be the blown insulation in my attic.
shit is probably so freaking sharp
Pretty sure my attic is an asteroid.
Those are balls.
Lies you just took a picture of that space behind the dryer
That shit looks cold as hell.
Or inside a cave or on a mountain at night, or an asteroid.
This is a litter box.
Looks like the old attic blown in insulation
@visitspace.com
It looks exactly like a pile of rocks and dirt in the night on earth
at first I thought it was some lumpy blown insulation in some random attic
Dark and cold
looks like ground that forgot which planet it was supposed to belong to
I was waiting for eye shine to appear in that picture, and then I'd probably pee a little.
Clearly I’m high I thought it was a video and was waiting for some glowing eyes or some shit. I was wrong it’s a picture.
Don’t care, where are the jump scares?
That reminds me -- I need to empty my vacuum cleaner.
Looks like the blown insulation I've seen in a few homes.
It looks like many an attic I've crawled around in.
Looks like my attic
Low bar for being creeped out with this one.
If someone knows what this scale is, can someone post a stick figure astronaut to scale on this picture?
I can hear the song Starman in the background
For the night is dark, and full of terrors
Looks like it.
I don't want to close my eyes......
I could recreate that photo in my old attic. That looks like stacked, old insulation hahaha
The light from the camera will continue to travel through space for billions of years. That's pretty cool.
So this thing has no atmosphere and floats through space. So what gives the ground that shape? On earth erosion and wind and shifting plates mold the shape of the earth. What determines the hills and valleys on an astroid?
Even without any weathering there can still be landslides and small micrometeorite impacts that mold the shape of the asteroids surface. Rubble tends to pile up at angles limited by the angle of repose just like sand does in sand dunes here on Earth. Combine that with the slight expanding and contracting the asteroid experiences as it basically spit roasts in sunlight and you start to get small fractures in the rock that build up over time. All of these are factors that lead to the surface of an asteroid looking how it does
What is creepy?
I know this one! This is Ryugu!
Looks like it was taken inside my dryers lint trap...
Looks like my grandpa's attic
Or in an American attic filled with your weird ass loose insulation.
It looks like blown in insulation
Looks like where Jimmy Neutron and the gang camped out on the way to rescue their parents.
*Tony Soprano
"You're looking at something formed at the beginning of time, or whatever the fuck"
Vacation, or?
CyFy Home Inspections comes by... Now, I can't tell you who the builder is but that's a good amount of attic insulation. Unfortunately the void of space is just not up to code.
The insane thing to keep in mind is how fast this asteroid is going as well
No stars in the picture. Must be fake.
Cant believe no one's asked how the frick you manage to get a picture on an astreoid, do they not move like 5million kmh?
Very demure
Looks like the insulation in my attic.
Looks like my attic
There’s nothing there! How boring 🥱
Is this from the dart mission just before impact?
I was thinking of the space spiders
so was your mum
I like this one lol 😭
is it just me or it doesn't look creepy or eerie at all?
The creepy part is the scale of this. Don’t know if I’m looking at something up close or if those are hundred foot hills.
Boy, it's dark out today.
comets are a mix of ice and dust, while asteroids are predominantly rock and metal.
What’s the scale here?
Creepy would be seeing reflection of eyes watching you.
Looks like I took a pic in my attic
Midwest desert at night
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Damn, how did they manage to land on my kidney stone?
On the other side of it there is a crashed probe and spikes of ice.
That looks better than some of the buds I smoke