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Kolanaki , in This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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Almost looks like earth but with more land than water.

zaphod ,
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In infrared. Titan basically looks like a brownish grey blob to the naked eye due to its incredibly dense atmosphere.

Kolanaki ,
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Knowing it’s just color shifted makes me wonder if that white band in the upper right that looks like a reflection off the atmosphere is actually a reflection off the atmosphere. And also what method of color shifting was used. Are the colors representative of anything or did they just pick what made for the best photo?

zaphod ,
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They basically remap wavelengths, so yes, absolutely those would be representative of real features, either in the atmosphere or on the ground.

That said, absolutely, sometimes there’s a bit of artistic license in how the wavelengths are mapped.

Edit: the space.com article on the image describes some of the physical features depicted:

space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-saturn-moon-…

HootinNHollerin , (edited ) in This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Very blurry for a powerful telescope. Wonder if it’s because moon is moving fast relative to close telescope so the effective shutter speed needs to be relatively high?

BigDaddySlim ,
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Must’ve left his glasses back on Earth

clif ,

Subtle dig at Hubble, I like it

slazer2au ,

I would assume it’s because the object is too close. Like trying to do macro photography without a macro lense.

lefty7283 ,
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JWST primarily looks at very large objects that are far away. Titan (and really everything in the solar system) is relatively close to us, but are tiny in comparison to galaxies/nebulae, so their actual size as they appear in the sky is a lot smaller.

johannesvanderwhales ,

Also of note, most objects in the outer solar system are very dim.

Buddahriffic ,

Can’t really claim we’re all that bright in the inner solar system either.

themeatbridge ,

Have we ruled out that the moon might just look like that? Like all fuzzy? How 'bout it, NASA?

nightwatch_admin ,

Titanically baked, blaze new world

OhmsLawn ,
wabafee ,
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It’s just mipmaps, high res texture is still loading.

KevonLooney , in How You Can Spot a Suitcase A-Bomb from Mechanix Illustrated July, 1954

This is interesting but gun type bombs are not feasible for plutonium. The fission rate is too fast and would destroy the plutonium in a “fizzle” instead of a large explosion. This device could not use plutonium because it would have to be much heavier and longer.

The distance required to accelerate the plutonium to speeds where predetonation would be less likely would mandate a gun barrel too long for any existing or planned bomber. The only way to use plutonium in a workable bomb was implosion—a far more difficult engineering task.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb)

Also, the “shaped charge” plutonium bomb could not be assembled on site. It is too delicate a job for “spies” to do in a hotel room. This would have to be Uranium if assembled on site, and it may not even work then.

I wonder if the magazine knows this. Maybe they were fed incorrect info, since this may have been classified at the time.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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What about uranium?

cosmicrookie , in Formula 1 Pit Stop 1990 vs 2023
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Arguably rules and regulations have changed too, to affect this. Back then they also refueled the car during pit stops. This has not been the case since 2010.

I believe that recently they have added a regulation forcing a sort of buffer time between the ready sign and when the car may leave

ConstipatedWatson ,

Wait, so now they never refuel them during pitstops?

They do the whole race just by filling the tank before the beginning of the race!?!

IWantToFuckSpez ,

Yeah. They start with around 100kg of fuel.

ConstipatedWatson ,

Wow, so now I’m curious why they didn’t do it in the previous years. I’m sure they refueled cars regularly during pitstops in the 1990’s

IWantToFuckSpez ,

You can run the car lighter if you can refuel during a pitstop. The extra time it cost to refuel is smaller than the lap time advantage a lighter car gives.

cosmicrookie ,
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Due to the sports environmental appeal they have moved to much smaller engines, that are way more power efficient than they used to (1.6lit V6 hybrids) . I don’t believe that they actually could run a whole race without refueling, in the earlier eras.

Further more they have added a limit on how many tires they can use per weekend (and per season) as well as how many engines and engine parts. In the “old” days they’d use a brand new engine for qualifying and discard it for a new one for the actual race. I belive that they are down to 3 engines per driver for the whole season.

ConstipatedWatson ,

This is great! Thanks for the explanation!

I should have thought about it, because it’s happened in regular life too: just like regular purpose cars on the street, even Formula One cars have become a lot more efficient and so they can run a lot more with a smaller tank.

It’s amazing how much they’ve improved cars and how it makes cars from the 1990’s appear clunkier (even if they did appear sleek at the time)

sherlockholmez ,

Yeah, since it’s safer.

GeneralEmergency ,

Yes. Not for the first time either.

HonoraryMancunian , in The Closest Planet To Neptune Turns Out To Be... Mercury

Tldr: it’s just a property of concentric circles (and it’s talking about average distance, not the closest passing).

I’ve made a diagram using online Paint on my phone, which I think you’ll agree is nothing short of perfect.

Basically you’re the blue dot (could represent any planet), and the purple is the sun (the middle of the concentric circles). The brown line represents the distance you are from it. The red lines represent orbits closer to it than you. As you can see, the further out the orbit, the more of it lies beyond the brown line. Ergo the closer to the middle the orbit is, the closer it is to you (on average).

mk36109 , in Hi there!

This is a pretty extreme example of acting like you belong somewhere and hoping no one will notice

tekchic , in Hi there!

Thanks, I didn't really need to sleep tonight.

Knasen , in How a road changed over thousands of years

Love it that they illustrated cars with a Jaguar XJ220!

kid4today ,
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I thought the same thing, interesting choice.

iforgotmyinstance ,

It’s a British display and Jaguar was a British company. It’s owned by Ford now.

Dark_Blade ,
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Ford sold it years ago, now it’s owned by an Indian company.

crimroy ,

The Indians traded it away eons ago. It’s now a Crimean non-profit.

Grass , in A column of capybaras marches through the streets of the Brazilian city of Campo Grande

returning home after a long day of being friends with literally every other animal

myliltoehurts , in A column of capybaras marches through the streets of the Brazilian city of Campo Grande

How do you see this in person and resist going outside to say hi…

elbarto777 ,

Are capybaras docile to humans?

Lifebandit666 ,

I’ve stroked a Capybara

SuckMyWang ,

Gross

echodot ,

Humans, alligators, probably tornadoes as well.

baggins , in Hi there!

I think you’re lost. This belong in c/terrifyingasfuck

Barack_Embalmer , in How a road changed over thousands of years

From our humble origins riding squids, to blasting down the highways in our Jaguar XJ220s - we’ve come a long way baby.

gonzo0815 , in How a road changed over thousands of years

I guess many roads are hundreds, if not thousands of years old. There are not many reasons to change the position of an established road, e.g. between cities, so I think the main roads that connect them often started as trails between villages and where upgraded according to the needs of the people. The junction in your city next to your city hall may have been an important trading spot before the middle ages already.

titan ,

One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;

But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do.

Since then three hundred years have fled, And I infer the calf is dead.

But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale.

The trail was taken up next day, By a lone dog that passed that way;

And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep,

And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do.

And from that day, o’er hill and glade. Through those old woods a path was made.

And many men wound in and out, And dodged, and turned, and bent about,

And uttered words of righteous wrath, Because 'twas such a crooked path;

But still they followed—do not laugh— The first migrations of that calf,

And through this winding wood-way stalked Because he wobbled when he walked.

This forest path became a lane, that bent and turned and turned again;

This crooked lane became a road, Where many a poor horse with his load

Toiled on beneath the burning sun, And traveled some three miles in one.

And thus a century and a half They trod the footsteps of that calf.

The years passed on in swiftness fleet, The road became a village street;

And this, before men were aware, A city’s crowded thoroughfare.

And soon the central street was this Of a renowned metropolis;

And men two centuries and a half, Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

Each day a hundred thousand rout Followed the zigzag calf about

And o’er his crooked journey went The traffic of a continent.

A Hundred thousand men were led, By one calf near three centuries dead.

They followed still his crooked way, And lost one hundred years a day;

For thus such reverence is lent, To well established precedent.

A moral lesson this might teach Were I ordained and called to preach;

For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind,

And work away from sun to sun, To do what other men have done.

They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back,

And still their devious course pursue, To keep the path that others do.

They keep the path a sacred groove, Along which all their lives they move.

But how the wise old wood gods laugh, Who saw the first primeval calf.

Ah, many things this tale might teach— But I am not ordained to preach

  • The Calf Path by Sam Foss
Gravelater ,

:)

palitu ,

Fitting, and really does make you wonder.

Thank you.

CeruleanRuin ,
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I’ve read this before, but it’s one of my favorites, and it makes me ponder and smile whenever I read it.

MonkderZweite ,

There are not many reasons to change the position of an established road, e.g. between cities

Well, for once, Eridu is gone now.

athos77 , in It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased

Per The Verge:

When asked if Reddit will remove the protesting messages [nb: "fuck /u/spez"], spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr pointed to the r/Place canvas rules. One of those rules says that “targeted hate or harassment of private individuals (including mods and admin) and protected groups are violations of our [content] policy (Rule 1) and will be removed. In addition, posts, comments, and imagery that are hateful, graphic, sexually-explicit, and / or offensive are violations of our policy (Rule 6) and will be removed.”

Nepenthe ,
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At least I don't see any games I play in those screenshots. Am seeing a lot of the same designs I remember from last year, though, which really drives home why it should be a rare event. How boring.

linearchaos OP ,
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Half the board is still covered in it though :)

Seasoned_Greetings ,

There might be a couple reasons for that.

One, they could be leaving the milder stuff as a plausible deniability thing. Like, “Of course we aren’t steamrolling the negative stuff, look how much is there!” while quietly removing the worse stuff.

Two, and this one is my favorite, with the mods on bad terms with the admins, the admins ironically just may not have the tools to keep up with the rest of the community and are settling for just erasing the worst stuff.

Also, I saw a theory yesterday that bringing back r/place could be a baiting tactic to take names and quietly ban the users who still have ill will towards the admins. If that’s the case, they may be leaving that stuff up intentionally and taking names…

sejoki , in It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased
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Fuck u/spez all the way, but I think the guillotine is a bit too much.

linearchaos OP ,
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I agree, kinda what makes it interesting :) They are leaving the entire rest of the fuck spez alone.

I wonder how this is being spun internally.

sab ,

I doubt it, of course the French community would build a guillotine. It's as French as baguette.

emeralddawn45 ,

Dragging a physical guillotine out onto the lawn of Steve’s house might be a bit much. Maybe. But this is a purely graphical, metaphorical depiction of people’s frustration. It’s not a real death threat.

islandofcaucasus ,

It’s the French way of handling dictators. It’s historical

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