Video: Astronaut Doug Hurley on what it&#39;s like to photograph Earth from the International Space Station

and in reality it's pic taken in swimming poool with photoshopped cgi background ,,according of photo forensic software

Jul 13, 2020permalink

I hope you're kidding.

Jul 13, 2020permalink

3pgrey

lol

Jul 13, 2020permalink

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00S2y89RgKlAmPu5LXYSIYwUtYjcw:1594645918174&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=nasa+swimming+pool+pictures&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw3_r7psrqAhUmpIsKHQqsCgQQsAR6BAgIEAE&biw=1097&bih=507

Jul 13, 2020permalink

You mean, you're not kidding?

It's people like you that make we wonder if our species is on the verge of extinction.

I've taken pictures of the ISS myself from my backyard. People claiming it doesn't exist or is a hoax are full-blown idiots.

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Albert Valentino

Better than the pictures of women with their hair sprayed hard to make it look like they are actually floating around in space

Jul 13, 2020permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXv9AZl3fw4

Geeze, are you people serious?

If spraying your hair "hard" is how the hair floats, then why does every movement of Suni cause her hair to move?

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Of course they're joking. Unless they are owners of any iterations of Nikon P900s & P1000 cameras. :)

Jul 13, 2020permalink

FunGuy66

I can just imagine the meeting of the evil conspirators:

A: We need some pics of the Earth from so-called space with the so-called ISS in them. Too many people are starting to clue in that the Earth is flat. They must be convinced it's round! Ideas? Also, mwahahahaha!

B: How about we use a green screen and CGI effects? That can easily fool most of the people, at a very affordable price! Mwahahahahaaaaa!

C: But the so-called astronaut won't look floaty enough. We should do it under water! Mwahahahaaa!

B: Maybe in 1968 they had to do that, but we can easily handle that detail with CGI! Using a pool is so much more complicated, we might as well actually go into space -- if there were such a thing as space. Ell oh ell!

A: So then it's settled, we'll use the Kubrick Pool in Houston. We must at all costs, for weird motives even we do not understand, maintain the illusion of space flight and an almost-round Earth! Mwahahahahaaaaahahahaha... ha-ha!

B: But --

A: Silence, I have spoken!

Jul 13, 2020permalink

RonRaymond

I see flat earth man they are using their gills

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Neil2112

It’s a grand conspiracy to make us think Earth is the same basic shape as all the other planets

Jul 31, 2020permalink

and no one know shape of other so called planets :) ,kinda they show all time same face .. ,think when ball idea came 1500's when hole known world fight vatikan true rulers of known world and they think it's flat ,so to make them wrong or stop to fear of them they need to create loooad of bull to show ppl they are wrong stop be afraid .... in short all we got now is fear of religion invention of kings to better control ppl ,,, strange world we live in

Aug 1, 2020permalink

ivanka, I lost brain cells reading your reply

Aug 1, 2020permalink

What's sad is, we've known since the ancient Greeks that the Earth was roughly spherical, we have video from space - since the 40s - of the roundness of Earth, and yet we have this movement of dumbasses that deny the existence of every single sunrise, moon rise, star rise, satellite, video of Earth from space, and on and on and on.

I think I'd probably kill myself if I was that dumb. Of course, being that dumb I likely wouldn't know I was that dumb.

Aug 1, 2020permalink

it's their religion that makes them not believe that earth is a globe

Aug 1, 2020permalink

FunGuy66

Imagine going through life believing that vast swaths of science — astronomy, astrophysics, physics and much more — are nothing but lies, all a vast, centuries-long conspiracy to fool the public, for no particular reason or at least none that makes any sense whatsoever. Imagine on top of this having digital photography for a hobby. The mind boggles.

Aug 2, 2020permalink

GinoSVK

Comet NEOWISE must be a real joy to look at from ISS, NASA displays some picture, but would be nice to see more.

Jul 13, 2020permalink

PhotoKhan

He could have done a lot more but I bet he was bitching about some feature the camera provided to him did not have.

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Albert Valentino

Probably prefered to complain about the lack of IBIS on their camera 😃

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Terrible Photographer

BuT tHe EaRtH iS fLaT

Jul 13, 2020permalink

no one knows that ... but this pic IS taken in swimming pool

Jul 13, 2020permalink

yeah, the swimming pool in my back yard.

Jul 13, 2020permalink

hernansote

hmm, I wonder why they didn't hire a photographer to take those pictures.
Any insight?

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Terrible Photographer

Really?

Jul 13, 2020permalink

it's scuba duty ,so ...

Jul 13, 2020permalink

24Peter

People look different in space. Zero gravity has an effect I guess :-)

Jul 13, 2020permalink

santamonica812

My biggest regret (as a man in his 50s) is that, 50 or 100 years from now, getting into space will likely be at a price-point where someone with average financial success in life (the average plumber or lawyer, or accountant; and maybe even the average teacher??) will be able to afford a trip into space. Sort of like a visit to Antarctica is now...*really* expensive, but not so expensive that it can't be a dream, once-in-a-lifetime, trip. This will not happen in my lifetime, alas. But hopefully my children and grandchildren can experience what it feels like to look down on earth from space.

Jul 12, 2020permalink

mais51

If you want it badly enough you will be reincarnated to full fill your dream - one life time is simply not long enough !

Jul 13, 2020permalink

Strobist

Santamonica, at least you will live to see the material that makes it all possible come to real world application use: The Graphene.

It will be in *everything* from batteires, clothing, surgery/body reconstruction, "real" foldable screens, buidings, airplanes, spaceships, new fusion-reactors... and on and on.

Also new computer-chips (this alone, will be as big technological breakthrough-jump as when we left the old electronic tubes and went for the transistors in the 1950's.)

The scaling of this material have been the biggest problem, but of 2020 a single factoriy can produce 10 ton material per year, and they are hoping to 10-fold production (100 tons/factory) by 2021.

Graphen holds such a vast amount of possibilities that we have not yet dreamed of all the usercases, but I would dare to guess, that if mankind manages to create *true* artificial intelligence - graphen will be the material that runs it's processors.

So at least we can witness the new tech frontier beeing born :-)

Jul 13, 2020*permalink

ilza

@santamonica812: As far as I know, the price of space flight goes UP (rather quickly) during the last 50–60 years. What makes you think this trend would be reversed in the future?!

(Yes, the last decade shows a very small reversal — IIRC, about 20% down — but given the major trend, why do you expect this dip to continue?)

Jul 14, 2020*permalink

santamonica812

ilza,
Fair question. My assumption is that, once the leaders figure out how to do this safely and reliably, competition will flood in. If that's true, then prices will adjust downward. Supply and demand. But of course, this may proof to be a niche market and so prices will not go down much at all.

Similar to visiting Antarctica...due to environmental-related reasons, there are imposed restrictions on the number of ships that can do this voyage each year. If this were opened up, prices would go down. (Not saying this would be a good result...it's probably not a terrible idea to limit public exposure to the last remaining pristine place on earth.) :-)

Jul 14, 2020*permalink

mais51

Yeah sure - this will make the cost of owning the latest Leica seems trivial

Jul 14, 2020permalink

Eric Hensel

I like how their arms just hang there, when weightless.

Jul 12, 2020permalink