Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

Space Quarry

⁨894⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/d6c724e0-523e-48e9-b04d-f47d0abb9ee4.jpeg

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • doug@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always thought this one was more haunting.

    Image

    source
    • Hex@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Is it weird that that picture is somehow shocking to me? Like intellectually I know that asteroids are just rocks flying through space, but they always had some sort of “specialness” to them that this picture strips away. It really is just a rough hunk of whatever the fuck flying through space at mach jesus

      source
      • doug@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah I felt the same way when I saw it. Just kinda sobering, really. I’m learning Unreal Engine right now for work but I kinda wanna make an experience of a VR “game” where you’re just on a slowly-rotating rock in the void of space, like a stranded astronaut.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Mach Jesus I’m stealing that

        source
    • addie@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hey! The images of Ryugu that were taken from Hayabusa2. What a sad lonely rock that place is - a loose collection of boulders in an endless orbit, in which it will probably continue without further interaction from now until the end of time. You could sneak a few ghosts onto that place, right enough, and no-one would notice.

      source
      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Somebody please draw this and give the space rock some ghost friends.

        source
    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Something beautifully haunting about seeing the endless abyss from another rock traveling the cosmos.

      source
    • gressen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

      source
    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That one will stick with me a for a long time. Something about it reminds me of some cosmic perspective of our cold, lonely universe, the vast, VAST fucking stretch of time those rocks and gravel have drifted through boggles the mind. Utter darkness, glittering stars, cold infinity in all directions for billions of years.

      source
      • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        To that point, I think it’s also unnerving how natural it is. This isn’t some alien world. I could go to the Mojave and walk around for 5 minutes to find a photo identical to this. Earth is indistinguishable to one of these rocks hurtling through space, there’s just something growing on it very briefly.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m jealous of them

        source
    • ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

      source
    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That shot is definitely creepy.

      source
  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shit I take photos better than this when I’m wasted. Stupid scientists

    source
    • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Look, in their defence, they’re wasted too

      source
      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If I’d managed to stick a robot landing on a rock hurtling through space, you bet I’d be celebrating hard too

        source
    • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Blown out whites and shadows, out of focus, disgusting vignetting, and lens flares on lens flares. Smh why even try, this is a horrible pfp. Not going to get any matches.

      source
      • aegis_sum@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sounds like freshman year of art school!

        source
    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, have you asked them if they could send you there instead?

      source
    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Didn’t even use the cat ear filter. Amateurs…

      source
    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      JJ Abrams aimed the camera.

      source
  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, space also looks like this:

    1000025306

    Point being: the statement “space looks like X” doesn’t make any sense because space looks like literally everything.

    source
    • Shareni@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, space doesn’t look like anything.

      source
      • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Then what are the lines on on my graph for huh!? Dummy

        source
      • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also true. Even truer, in fact. Still validates classic Dr. Who having trash production design.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Most surfaces in space look like a quarry. So that’s fair. You could also include the ones that are on fire and the ones inside of some sort of toxic cloud.

      But the exceptions are the most interesting parts. There’s a reason there’s not much entertainment out there about people stranded in deserts, mountains, and open oceans that feature not a single encounter with life.

      I’ve played Star Citizen, roaming dead space and lifeless planets gets old fast.

      source
      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Is most surface area on planets/asteroids, or on stars?

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tecnically, this photo is taken in space.

      source
      • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        All photos are

        source
    • logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I like your point, but to be pedantic, I think in this context “space” is short for outer space.

      source
  • Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

    source
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Rock and stone.

    source
    • anonproxy00@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      FOR CARL!

      source
  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Banana for size?

    source
  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Rock Yard at NASA Houston was used for for testing out the Mars rover - lots of volcanic rocks to model Mars. Looked really fucking cool to see a couple of interns drive around on a “fake” Mars.

    source
  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yo but it IS incredible though.

    i can’t describe the feeling i get when i see stuff like this.

    source
  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And real quantum computers look like cheesy sci fi props.

    source
  • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Suddenly a finger cramped on the shift key.

    source
  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Next time I’m back in England I want to visit the Blake’s Seven/Doctor Who quarry.

    source
    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then go to ZipWorld. That way you get to zoom over the typical North Wales Quarrys used for Dr. Who.

      Also whilst you’re there, check out Bounce Below and Surf Snowdonia.

      source
      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There’s a particular one, I think in Hampshire, I’ve never been to. Could always visit Snowdonia for a rainy weekend though!

        source