I kinda want to see a sci-fi movie do some crazy stuff with space
Like doing some crazy calculations and predictions to fire in a direction and area ahead of time. Because from my understanding nothing loses speed or trajectory in space, so it would be the ultimate version of leading your shots
You don’t need sci-fi, what you describe is what scientists specializing in orbital mechanics do. They blast rockets into space, whip them around the earth, get gravity assists from the moon and they’re on a course to Mars. Watch literally any Mars mission.
The term “launch window” is an area of space that the rocket must pass through at a specific time to rendezvous with the moon, planet or whatever, to make the mission a success.
So “leading the shot” as you say, is hitting the launch window.
Using the moon to slingshot and land on an asteroid is literally the plot to Armageddon (1998). Too bad it's so inaccurate. NASA screens this film as part of the management training program and nearly 170 mistakes have been pointed out
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/trivia/
I'm cautiously excited about this. Mostly because it was such a well written concept that I don't know how they could likely make it work on film, but nonetheless ... anxious.
Thank you for giving me something to look forward to in 2026 already!
Yeah we'll see how it turns out. They got Ryan Gosling attached to star, who wasn't exactly what I was picturing, but the dude's got chops to carry a movie like this.
I'm more worried they're gonna spoil the big "twist" in trailers and what not.
Storyline aside (because people will ALWAYS complain about source material loyalty) - I too share that concern because trailers seem to be made for the lowest common denominator these days. It would be great if they did it a la "1980s movie trailer voice guy" style and just ... set up the story without showing any frames past the first half hour of run time.
"The source of our planets ability to sustain life ... is dying. Something is affecting the Suns ability to provide the light and heat that humanity depends on for survival. Our attempts to adapt ourselves and our planet have sped up the timeline on the doom of humanity. All options have been exhausted... all except one. The fate of all life on Earth now relies on this last-ditch effort to find a solution before it's too late. Will Ryan Goslings team and plan be enough? Will it be in time?
Adapted from the best-selling novel of Andy Weir (The Martian), you'll have to see it to believe it.
Coming this summer, Project Hail Mary."
P.S - I have been VERY surprised at Goslings acting chops. In my head, he is still (and always will be) ... the friend of Jimmy from Breaker High.
They did something like that in the anime GATE. Beginning of the episode one of the main characters is in earth's orbit doing some test shots with his mech's new gun.
later in the episode he lures the guy he was fighting into the path of the bullets right as they are completing an orbit around the planet.
Anime was shit, but that scene was neat
Far from here, on a world nobody even knows exists, a sunrise more beautiful than any we have on Earth slowly illuminates enormous plains, soaring mountains, and clear, sterile oceans for the billionth time, and not a single living thing has or ever will witness it.
Silly Human, you just did in your heart. You said it, you know it. Let's check out the local (it's always night) life and leave the politicians and the predators here to clean up. As for me, I'm going to pack, just music and books. And a good pan.
Beautifully worded, but I prefer to think about the worlds on which those features *are* witnessed by living things. God knows they're out there, even if they're too far away for us to ever reach.
Imagine if signals from two inhabited planets finally reach each other like a billion years later, only for life to no longer exist on either of them. Signals of the dead mingling in the grand emptiness of space has a sort of morbid beauty to it imo.
That’s the thing that boggles my mind. Those are rocks, nearly just like the ones on Earth, but way _out there_. And out _everywhere_. _Way_ out there.
They're more like the rock deep inside earth than rocks on the surface. Earth is big enough that material differentiates into layers because of gravity, a bit like oil on water. Asteroids don't have the gravity for that so they contain a lot of stuff that you'd only find deep within terrestrial planets.
That goes for most asteroids but there are lots of different types.
This may freak you out a bit: [https://x.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168](https://x.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168)
The cliffs in this animated gif (on Comet #67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as captured by the Rosetta probe) are approximately 1 km tall and the boulders are up to 100 m across.
Some of it background stars right? As the asteroid tumbles through space, I imagine we’re seeing some stars behind it? Or is it too reflective for us to see stars? I know the moon is too reflective to see the stars. At least with the cameras we took there.
Yes, the dots that move slowly and together towards the bottom right are stars; they move because the comet spins, and this is effectively a time lapse.
This video is taken at "night" on the comet; no camera, or even the human eye, could see the stars while the sun is up. You can see a little hint of sunlight peeking over the cliffs, and it's totally blowing out the exposure there.
[If anyone is wondering the Wikipedia article has more photos and a 3D model of the comet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko)
There's a reason we subscribe to r/BananaForScale.
Next time some space agency is planning an interstellar visit, tell the nerds to engineer a *zero G* banana for the trip or we'll just disregard their pictures as hoaxes.
Wasn’t a paper just published about how we actually “render” in the world around us? Something about how things outside of our perception actually don’t exist. Scary shit.
I never even realised how many insanely beautiful and crazy looking world there must be that have never and will never be seen by a n y o n e. Millions upon millions of planets just out there, somewhere, forever out of reach.
Honestly a lot of sci-fi planets seem boring compared to some of the actual ones out there. Not helped by most sci-fi being lazy and just doing "this planet just has 1 single biome, copied from Earth, for the whole planet".
(18th century philosopher) “Berkeley advanced a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the mind and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived.” Wikipedia. To help you out: if you can’t see it,
it doesn’t not exit. Is not real.
The scale of space example that has stuck with me is that the moon, the closest thing to us in space, is far enough away that you could fit all the planets in our solar system between it and the earth.
if anyones wondering, the stars and colors are edited. the original photo is here
https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20190828_ryugu-surface-color-mascot-big.jpg
the image OP posted is what it *would* look like if you were there, however cameras cannot capture the light from the ground and the stars at the same time due to how a cameras exposure works
Probably because lava rock is usually relatively unweathered and so is this, for obvious reasons. We're just not used to seeing rocks that aren't at least partially smoothed.
Can you imagine what it would be like to somehow be able to live permanently on one of these asteroids/meteors that’s perpetually flying through space? Every day a new location, a different “sky”?
I don't wanna ruin any dreams but the sky looks virtually identical from any two points in the solar system. A lot of the stars are so far away that some constellations would still be recognizable from some of our close neighbors
I've seen this image a ton of times, and it's super fascinating, but I wish I had something to give a sense of scale... I feel like this could either be the size of a loaf of bread, or the size of an entire city.... and I can't tell which.
In this case, I kind of approve of the edit. The camera can only expose for the brightly lit foreground or the faint stars, but not both. If a human were somehow standing there, they would see more of both.
Human eyes still have more dynamic range than most camera sensors, so the edited image is not a complete lie.
Most likely there's more ground in front of the camera so you wouldn't directly see stars if the dynamic range is increased.
The photos are made by the mascot probe: https://i.imgur.com/J590egf.png. A small camera cube that "hops" around. The gravity of the asteroid is so low compared to earth that spinning a weight inside the probe around would launch it into the air.
I'm watching a nature channel... I know all those reflecting lights are spider eyes!!! are you going to tell me that the Japanese are going to return space spiders to Earth?!?!?!? oh damn no!!!
Y’all, I swear this is an honest question:
How can we land on a gotdamn rock hurdling though space at a bazillion meters per second, but we can’t land a meaningful crew on our (stationary) moon?!?
🎶 Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna to fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you (even when I dream)
The sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing.🎶
This thing moves in absolute darkness for maybe millions of years. That’s insane.
And these things are traveling 20km/s. Crazy scenes
For frame of reference, that's roughly 2 laps around the earth per hour. Fucking mental speeds.
So I won’t be building a house there
Yeah, might get demolished for a highway or sth one day
Dang Beeblebrox
What the zarking photon is this hoopy frood talking about?
He’s just this guy you know
The Earth moves at a similar speed
In space speed is entirely dependent on a point of reference. On Earth it is too but we all have a common reference here.
I kinda want to see a sci-fi movie do some crazy stuff with space Like doing some crazy calculations and predictions to fire in a direction and area ahead of time. Because from my understanding nothing loses speed or trajectory in space, so it would be the ultimate version of leading your shots
You don’t need sci-fi, what you describe is what scientists specializing in orbital mechanics do. They blast rockets into space, whip them around the earth, get gravity assists from the moon and they’re on a course to Mars. Watch literally any Mars mission. The term “launch window” is an area of space that the rocket must pass through at a specific time to rendezvous with the moon, planet or whatever, to make the mission a success. So “leading the shot” as you say, is hitting the launch window.
guy waited 3 years to drop his casual nasa take on everyones dome
Using the moon to slingshot and land on an asteroid is literally the plot to Armageddon (1998). Too bad it's so inaccurate. NASA screens this film as part of the management training program and nearly 170 mistakes have been pointed out https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/trivia/
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, the guy who also wrote The Martian.
Movie's coming out in 2026
I'm cautiously excited about this. Mostly because it was such a well written concept that I don't know how they could likely make it work on film, but nonetheless ... anxious. Thank you for giving me something to look forward to in 2026 already!
Yeah we'll see how it turns out. They got Ryan Gosling attached to star, who wasn't exactly what I was picturing, but the dude's got chops to carry a movie like this. I'm more worried they're gonna spoil the big "twist" in trailers and what not.
Storyline aside (because people will ALWAYS complain about source material loyalty) - I too share that concern because trailers seem to be made for the lowest common denominator these days. It would be great if they did it a la "1980s movie trailer voice guy" style and just ... set up the story without showing any frames past the first half hour of run time. "The source of our planets ability to sustain life ... is dying. Something is affecting the Suns ability to provide the light and heat that humanity depends on for survival. Our attempts to adapt ourselves and our planet have sped up the timeline on the doom of humanity. All options have been exhausted... all except one. The fate of all life on Earth now relies on this last-ditch effort to find a solution before it's too late. Will Ryan Goslings team and plan be enough? Will it be in time? Adapted from the best-selling novel of Andy Weir (The Martian), you'll have to see it to believe it. Coming this summer, Project Hail Mary." P.S - I have been VERY surprised at Goslings acting chops. In my head, he is still (and always will be) ... the friend of Jimmy from Breaker High.
Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem' had some pretty cool orbital mechanics stuff in it.
Play Kerbal Space Program
No gaming achievement will ever be as magical as landing on the Mün for the first time
They did something like that in the anime GATE. Beginning of the episode one of the main characters is in earth's orbit doing some test shots with his mech's new gun. later in the episode he lures the guy he was fighting into the path of the bullets right as they are completing an orbit around the planet. Anime was shit, but that scene was neat
But so are we
The rock we are on is orbiting at about 29km/s
Relative to what?
Relative to earth?
So many places totally dead with no one to see them
Far from here, on a world nobody even knows exists, a sunrise more beautiful than any we have on Earth slowly illuminates enormous plains, soaring mountains, and clear, sterile oceans for the billionth time, and not a single living thing has or ever will witness it.
That place needs a walmart
I was thinking it’s the perfect place for a dollar general
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Oh hell yea. Overpriced *cwuh-san* here I come! Now now far is this planet 🤔I wonder
And there are billions of such places in every direction 🤯
Silly Human, you just did in your heart. You said it, you know it. Let's check out the local (it's always night) life and leave the politicians and the predators here to clean up. As for me, I'm going to pack, just music and books. And a good pan.
Set sail!
are you trying to make me panic? bc I'm about to panic.
It probably has oil, and where there's oil oh baby there's a chance for democracy! 🦅🇺🇸🎇
Beautifully worded, but I prefer to think about the worlds on which those features *are* witnessed by living things. God knows they're out there, even if they're too far away for us to ever reach.
Imagine if signals from two inhabited planets finally reach each other like a billion years later, only for life to no longer exist on either of them. Signals of the dead mingling in the grand emptiness of space has a sort of morbid beauty to it imo.
Billions even.
Welp that gave me anxiety for no reason
That’s the thing that boggles my mind. Those are rocks, nearly just like the ones on Earth, but way _out there_. And out _everywhere_. _Way_ out there.
They're more like the rock deep inside earth than rocks on the surface. Earth is big enough that material differentiates into layers because of gravity, a bit like oil on water. Asteroids don't have the gravity for that so they contain a lot of stuff that you'd only find deep within terrestrial planets. That goes for most asteroids but there are lots of different types.
>absolute darkness Honesty it had quite the view.
not absolute darkness it would probably pass around a star get attached to it for a time and leave.
The star this one's attached to is the sun and it's close enough that you can see just fine on the dayside. It's only a little further out than Earth.
Give or take a few million
contemplating that loneliness, in cold blackness. no sound. nothing ever happens. maybe a slow rotation on the progression to who knows.
I mean we can see stars in the image, that's not absolute darkness, no?
God I wish I was there
*billions
With a temperature of almost 0 Kelvin.
Deep space is close to 0, but this one is a near-Earth asteroid so it would be chilly with no atmosphere insulating it but not 0.
In complete silence too.
This may freak you out a bit: [https://x.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168](https://x.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168) The cliffs in this animated gif (on Comet #67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as captured by the Rosetta probe) are approximately 1 km tall and the boulders are up to 100 m across.
I could stare at this for hours. Love how it almost looks like it's from a silent movie
I mean... it is a silent movie. Right?
You're not wrong XD
David lynch
My first thought seeing the post image was “Ah, now I want to watch Eraserhead”.
what's all the snow looking bits
Part of it is cosmic rays and part of it is dust/ice from the surface of the comet
Some of it background stars right? As the asteroid tumbles through space, I imagine we’re seeing some stars behind it? Or is it too reflective for us to see stars? I know the moon is too reflective to see the stars. At least with the cameras we took there.
Yes, the dots that move slowly and together towards the bottom right are stars; they move because the comet spins, and this is effectively a time lapse. This video is taken at "night" on the comet; no camera, or even the human eye, could see the stars while the sun is up. You can see a little hint of sunlight peeking over the cliffs, and it's totally blowing out the exposure there.
Cosmic rays. No ozone to stop any kinda of ray or band of light
No.
ok
Some of them are stars.
buddy that's clearly not what i was asking about
I'm not your buddy, pal.
Listen here sweetheart…
>This may freak you out a bit Understatement. My heart and stomach both deflated looking at that gif.
Maaan… that thing really needs a banana for scale. Amazing view.
[If anyone is wondering the Wikipedia article has more photos and a 3D model of the comet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko)
Are those stars in the background?
No one posts the more recent one? https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1574539270987173903
Looking at things like this literally gives me a physical headache.
I'm pretty sure this is where The Man in the Planet lives in Eraserhead.
Kilometers? Meters? English please? Im joking
Don’t let Marco Inaros get his hands on that one
Ah a fellow man of culture
For real, nice to see some Expanse love in this thread because it’s the first thing I thought of lol
Please. He doesn’t get his own hands dirty.
Inyalowda propaganda.
Aye
Aye, Beratna. Me sasa.
Just finished the series for the second time today, it always comes back around to the Expanse
I'm literally watching the series right now
Thankfully he’s been consumed by the ring entities and can no longer drop rocks
When's the next season coming out 😭
Not sure if it is, especially after the issues on set with one silly actor
best show ever.
I need a banana for scale, or a hand or something. Is this the size of a bowling ball, or manhattan? My brain can’t really tell from the image.
Yeah it's not easy to tell with no atmosphere and fog
https://np.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/s/6nAf37Ozx7
Joined r/spaceporn
You legend
My bad I left that there
There’s always money on the banana asteroid.
A hand in the frame would be equal parts helpful and terrifying.
They need to fix a steel banana in yellow that they shoot out with a wire attached to it so they could do all photos with a banana for scale.
There's a reason we subscribe to r/BananaForScale. Next time some space agency is planning an interstellar visit, tell the nerds to engineer a *zero G* banana for the trip or we'll just disregard their pictures as hoaxes.
r/malelivingspace
Put a mattress, tv, gaming console, mini fridge and a water dispenser and it’s good enough.
That’d be more than enough! Look at all the different divots and crevasses you can use for storage and organization! Do you know if it’s leasing?
Looks like the insulation in my attic
Yeah I think I see your stack of old porno mags up there
Grandpa?
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Add stuff more than 10 meters deep underwater
with the current state of things I'm happy to pretend anything 10 meters out of my perception isnt real
Wasn’t a paper just published about how we actually “render” in the world around us? Something about how things outside of our perception actually don’t exist. Scary shit.
Solipsism has roots in ancient greek culture, anyone who truly thinks like that is surely a narcissist
that seems pretty ridiculous, so no, I don't think a paper was just published scientifically validating solipsism
Who am I calling to change my 2 o'clock anal waxing then?
I like thinking about the desolate worlds in the universe that have never and will never have a set of eyes upon them.
I never even realised how many insanely beautiful and crazy looking world there must be that have never and will never be seen by a n y o n e. Millions upon millions of planets just out there, somewhere, forever out of reach.
There is apparently a planet where it rains shards of glass with winds that blow at above 5000mph. Terrifying to imagine… but also really cool.
Honestly a lot of sci-fi planets seem boring compared to some of the actual ones out there. Not helped by most sci-fi being lazy and just doing "this planet just has 1 single biome, copied from Earth, for the whole planet".
I’m pretty sure that is the true meaning of “if a tree falls down in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, did it make a sound?”
(18th century philosopher) “Berkeley advanced a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the mind and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived.” Wikipedia. To help you out: if you can’t see it, it doesn’t not exit. Is not real.
The scale of space example that has stuck with me is that the moon, the closest thing to us in space, is far enough away that you could fit all the planets in our solar system between it and the earth.
We don’t have to pretend. It obviously isn’t.
When you get on a plane, it’s not actually taking off
– *The Roman Inquisition circa 1600*
you're using a photoshopped image, so it's kinda not real. those stars were added in after the fact.
Like flat earthers?
Some things on Earth aren’t real either, like birds.
space is so freaky
if anyones wondering, the stars and colors are edited. the original photo is here https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20190828_ryugu-surface-color-mascot-big.jpg the image OP posted is what it *would* look like if you were there, however cameras cannot capture the light from the ground and the stars at the same time due to how a cameras exposure works
Thanks, I much prefer to see true photos. This one is scarier though because it's just basically you and the rock in an infinite nothingness.
You all are looking at something very few people in the history of man has ever seen.
“Picture taken on *the surface of an asteroid.* What a sentence!
Kinda looks like lava rock
Yeah I'm surprised at how Earth-like it appears
lol do you expect morphing beings with lasers?
Yes, I do.
Or the geological equivalent
There's only like 90 naturally occuring elements. It would be absolutely groundbreaking if a rocky body didn't kinda resemble something familiar
Probably because lava rock is usually relatively unweathered and so is this, for obvious reasons. We're just not used to seeing rocks that aren't at least partially smoothed.
Makes you wonder what its origin is? Some planetary cataclysm? A moon breaking apart?
The rock dude from neverending story dropped a deuce
Apparently rock dude eats a fiber-rich diet
Over 85% of asteroids are just accumulated space dust, but some are from bits of planets getting smashed up. Not sure which this one is.
There's nothing to judge the scale here. Is this a meter or a kilometer?
This asteroid, Bennu, is about a km in diameter. Not sure about the scale of the picture though.
[https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20181002e\_MSC/](https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20181002e_MSC/) [https://www.sci.news/space/hayabusa-2-surface-near-earth-asteroid-ryugu-08415.html](https://www.sci.news/space/hayabusa-2-surface-near-earth-asteroid-ryugu-08415.html) [https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/images-from-the-surface-of-asteroid-ryugu-yield-clues-to-its-composition/](https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/images-from-the-surface-of-asteroid-ryugu-yield-clues-to-its-composition/)
So cool we have the ability to land on an asteroid and snap pics!
It’s just my dream since I was a child to stand on one of these things. Born too early I suppose.
Can you imagine what it would be like to somehow be able to live permanently on one of these asteroids/meteors that’s perpetually flying through space? Every day a new location, a different “sky”?
That could make for a cool story. Like some space wizard and their chill adventures as they ride their astroid house throughout space.
I don't wanna ruin any dreams but the sky looks virtually identical from any two points in the solar system. A lot of the stars are so far away that some constellations would still be recognizable from some of our close neighbors
My day is ruined, my disappointment immeasurable.
Probably you'll be bored after like 30 minutes and wanting to go to a mall to have some tacos
I've seen this image a ton of times, and it's super fascinating, but I wish I had something to give a sense of scale... I feel like this could either be the size of a loaf of bread, or the size of an entire city.... and I can't tell which.
Fucking hell How do they even GET pictures like this?
Rockets innit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx
Are the specks of white on the black area dust from the asteroid, or stars??
They are photoshopped in. Here's the original: https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20190828_ryugu-surface-color-mascot-big.jpg
classic r/megalophobia using photoshopped images....
In this case, I kind of approve of the edit. The camera can only expose for the brightly lit foreground or the faint stars, but not both. If a human were somehow standing there, they would see more of both. Human eyes still have more dynamic range than most camera sensors, so the edited image is not a complete lie.
Most likely there's more ground in front of the camera so you wouldn't directly see stars if the dynamic range is increased. The photos are made by the mascot probe: https://i.imgur.com/J590egf.png. A small camera cube that "hops" around. The gravity of the asteroid is so low compared to earth that spinning a weight inside the probe around would launch it into the air.
This made me dizzy.
I'm watching a nature channel... I know all those reflecting lights are spider eyes!!! are you going to tell me that the Japanese are going to return space spiders to Earth?!?!?!? oh damn no!!!
How could someone put a camera on asteroid?
landers with cameras on.
the same reason you're able to write words on a screen that the world can see. science and technology.
really good toss
Thats what i was thinking too
Rockets innit
The fact we have pictures from asteroid blows my mind
Looks so peaceful
Just a lump of dirt drifting in nothingness for eons…
Earth is just one planet, in one solar system, in on galaxy among millions of galaxies. Scary is an understatement.
it looks disappointingly similar to a rock
not really its like space rock, look at it. all crystaline and shit
I don’t think there’s any shit, that would be headlines already
How did You get there?
*Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down*
How is it we see stars in the background?
Not sure those are stars. If I remember correctly, it was dust/ice from the comet.
I could fix her
Scale bar please.
Banana for scale?
I wish there was a banana for scale
god damn, looks like our asphalt in LA.
It's cold outside There's no kind of atmosphere I'm all alone More or less Let me fly Far away from here
Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign.
I wish they would bring a banana for scale.
this is the rare truly scary image on this sub
We can land a camera on an asteroid, but lost the technology to land on the moon?? Lmao
Where’s the banana for scale? 🤔
Y’all, I swear this is an honest question: How can we land on a gotdamn rock hurdling though space at a bazillion meters per second, but we can’t land a meaningful crew on our (stationary) moon?!?
🎶 Don't wanna close my eyes I don't wanna to fall asleep 'Cause I'd miss you, baby And I don't wanna miss a thing 'Cause even when I dream of you (even when I dream) The sweetest dream would never do I'd still miss you, baby And I don't wanna miss a thing.🎶
Harry Stamper has got this!
Debunked. That’s the blown-in insulation in my attic after I walk around looking for a roof leak.
Looks like the inside of a dusty bucket
it looks so crystalline. I want a chunk
Don't read about galaxy filaments...