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- inactive, on 02/13/2008, -3/+45I don't see any stars! FAKE!
/sarcasm - h3lx, on 02/13/2008, -0/+42If you take the image into photoshop, lighten it up, you can see a great deal of the Earth back there.
http://www.h3lx.net/farkimages/sts_hoax.jpg - sgtbutterscotch, on 02/13/2008, -2/+27What's that bluish junk on the right side?
- rentmitchum, on 02/13/2008, -4/+27It's the glow off Goku's spirit bomb. WTF would you think it is.
- Enjoikr3w, on 02/13/2008, -1/+23Looks like Earth.
- bbqsalad, on 02/13/2008, -1/+18Space is overwhelming.
- SickBoy, on 02/13/2008, -0/+16I was going to say "I can see hundreds of stars!" but then I realized it was all the dust on my screen.
- Evari, on 02/13/2008, -1/+11fail
- rentmitchum, on 02/13/2008, -0/+10Your sarcasm tag protects you now, but he ain't gon' be roun' here forever!
- jameshighmore, on 02/13/2008, -0/+10Would you believe me if I said I posted the wrong link by mistake?
- DocDEB, on 02/13/2008, -1/+11Actually it looks so black because the exposure is for the shuttle in the foreground. If you took a long enough exposure without the shuttle there would billions and billions of stars. Ancient truth can be difficult to see sometimes.
- adml_shake, on 02/13/2008, -0/+10Well obviously the moon landing nuts will tell you this is fake since you can't see any stars.
- mbrindam, on 02/13/2008, -3/+12Dude, WTF?
- isseki, on 02/13/2008, -4/+13It's just dark. You should see it during the day.
- dawgma, on 02/13/2008, -0/+8I find that the recent natural color pictures of Saturn really depict the sharp contrast between light and darkness in space. Check out this actual photograph taken by Cassini that shows the planet casting a shadow on it's rings: http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/cyberspace/planets ...
It's so black that it just looks like someone drew a black oval over the rings... but sure enough, that's what you get when there's no surrounding ambient light. - gen0x, on 02/13/2008, -0/+8Affirmative.
- Sharky35, on 02/13/2008, -0/+8That is awesome.
- sdellboy, on 02/13/2008, -1/+9"Space is big. REALLY big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
- nottidredd, on 02/13/2008, -0/+6smarmy is my new word for today
- Jordan117, on 02/13/2008, -0/+6"I raised the visor on my helmet cover and looked out to try to identify constellations. As I looked out into space, I was overwhelmed by the darkness. I felt the flesh crawl on my back and the hair rise on my neck."
-- William Pogue, USA
"It was a texture. The blackness was so intense."
-- Charles Duke, USA - LiquidShield, on 02/13/2008, -0/+6That's a really good photo. I would suspect that since there is so much light hitting the shuttle bay like that, that it would just be like standing under a bright white street light and looking out into space. You wont really see much. Besides if you zoom in the picture you can see one star just to the right of the rear tail fin, above the engine.
- lalop, on 02/13/2008, -0/+5Can't "off" be used as "coming from"?
- NaziHatinChimp, on 02/13/2008, -6/+11....ground control to Major Tom...
- sockpuppets, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4Houston we have a possum.
- SevenTwo, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4Charlie Murphy!!!
- valosonthor, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4They have. It's called Hubble.
- blakespot, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4Zoom in on the "missing pieces" in Photoshop. You will see that it's millions of tiny monoliths, increasing at a geometric rate.
- noahhoward, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4Shoot it in HDR!!!
- BoonieHat, on 02/13/2008, -0/+4The wonderful planet we live on, also know as: that bluish junk.
- rentmitchum, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3Well it'd be silly without contrast. We've seen black before.
- plup, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3LOL, #000.
- fak3r, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3/me bows
- rentmitchum, on 02/13/2008, -2/+5Would you be happier if I typed it as "It's the glow coming off of Goku's..." like the way it sounded in my head? Do I care to make you happy? It's legible the way it is, you smarmy *****.
- ieataquacrayons, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2In space, can you still get "noise" by cranking the ISO on your camera up to get a better shot....?
- rsdigi, on 02/13/2008, -1/+3Any photographer will tell you it has something to do with the flash. The shuttle is the brightest thing in the picture so it is what appears on film, the stars all black out.
- fak3r, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2obligitory:
"oh my God, it's FULL OF STARS!" - sgtbutterscotch, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2Is it weird I read that in Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel's voice?
- slapded, on 02/13/2008, -1/+2you forgot this... /sarcasm
- aklu, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1I did the same thing!
- toyotaboy, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1best contrast ratio.. EVA!
- skyfire1, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1People like you have serious mental health issues.
- bbqsalad, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1Yeah they build spaceships just to play with our minds.
- chrishavel, on 02/13/2008, -1/+2"How can space be black when it is filled with hundreds of billions of incandescent stars and galaxies?" -- Hmm. How can people be ignorant when their brains are full of hundreds of billions of neurons? Same reason, I suspect -- lack of exposure (to knowledge).
- GuacamoleSan, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1dugg for dbz reference
- Stupidumb, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1That's racist.
- Spartandog, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1Because cameras automatically dial down the iris for the brightest object. The white of the shuttle hit by sunlight without atmosphere would close the aperture down to the maximum, thus blocking out starlight. In order to photograph the stars, there would have to be nothing brighter in the way.
- DelSolMan, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1#000000
- chubbybubba, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1That's what my doctor said before he made me cough.
- Lingur, on 02/13/2008, -1/+2"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black. "
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