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This Is Not Your Ordinary Family Photo

gizmodo.com — This is probably the most extraordinary family photo you will ever see in a long time. Not for the photo itself, but from where is currently resting...

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 9, 2009

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  • danxmason, on 10/09/2009, -3/+216The family photo is very ordinary... the location is extraordinary.
  • JCinDE, on 10/09/2009, -5/+187Jeeze. No matter where we go, there seems to be one constant: We litter.
  • TheVirus, on 10/09/2009, -1/+117Thanks for the buzz kill.
  • GreenChaos, on 10/09/2009, -5/+111Very cool. I didn't know about this either.
  • pagemap, on 10/09/2009, -2/+104I am sure that by now, UV rays have already erased all the colors from the photo, it's likely just a white piece of paper by now.
  • RushLimba, on 10/09/2009, -9/+91Dugg for Watchmen
  • matticusf1nch, on 10/09/2009, -6/+59And soon it's going to blow up.
  • RIB08, on 10/09/2009, -5/+50Unfortunately, NASA accidentally blew it up today.
  • EddiePotato, on 10/09/2009, -1/+41Now Duke needs to go back in time and hook his parents up all over again.
  • yokozuka, on 10/09/2009, -2/+32Which makes the photo, a unique object in a unique environment, extraordinary. Context is everything.
  • durnit, on 10/09/2009, -0/+19"brunch-bacon-crispy photographs" = shameless catering to bacon lovers.
  • ricksnow, on 10/09/2009, -0/+15kind of late for advertising the book has been out for almost 10 years.
    personally its one of my favorite photo books.
  • Briones07, on 10/10/2009, -0/+15One Indian tear
  • Insightful, on 10/09/2009, -3/+16Dugg for science, exploration, and familial happiness.
  • Skurt, on 10/09/2009, -2/+14Pffft, Neil Armstrong left a Goatse' picture when he was there...
  • nepidae, on 10/09/2009, -0/+12We are just animals marking our territory.
  • skipvt, on 10/09/2009, -0/+12Please don't litter.
  • buddahmonk, on 10/09/2009, -7/+17That was a cool tidbit of info. Although half of this seems to be an advertisement for a book called "Full Moon"
  • lindsayjc, on 10/09/2009, -1/+11Maybe we bury you right here!
  • ChromaVita, on 10/09/2009, -1/+10Location, Location, Location.
  • wonderwal, on 10/09/2009, -1/+10So beautiful indeed.
  • dse78759, on 10/09/2009, -0/+7UV rays, Gamma rays, all the other crap that the ozone layer protects us from....
  • MxM111, on 10/09/2009, -0/+7I would not count that it still look the same though. With bright solar light and without atmosphere to filter it it will not survive long in original state. I mean, even in the darkness it ages
  • sageerrant, on 10/10/2009, -0/+7Catering should always include bacon.
  • Yomoska, on 10/10/2009, -0/+6I think it's going to be hard to make that image any bigger
  • EnderSaveUs, on 10/09/2009, -1/+7@yokozuka: I was going to say the same thing.
  • splicerslicer, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5Yes, we can bury you in the comment section for article /about/ the moon. Would that be close enough?
  • HouseofEl, on 10/09/2009, -0/+5Not everything is an advertisement.
  • hereticoftruth, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5Pics! It did happen!
  • lazlonger, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5can't somebody just genuinely like something and recommend it? asinine comment from a buddha....
  • ptoomey, on 10/12/2009, -0/+4At probably $30,000 per pound in today's dollars to get something to the moon, yeah I guess he was too cheap for that.
  • ricksnow, on 10/09/2009, -0/+4article mentions the photo book "Full Moon"
    Even if you just have a tinny interest in the Apollo missions I highly recommend this book all the photos are high resolution prints not your normal granny photo prints you get in most photo books.
    it's been out for a some time now so you can probably find this book on the cheep too.
  • TotalHalibut, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3Buried for unironically using the word 'fagster'
  • Bowie, on 10/16/2009, -1/+4That photo left on the moon's surface is obviously fake. There's no way that bench those people are sitting on could be real.

    Oh, but silly me, i'm one of those crazy "bench hoaxers"... what do I know.... WAKE UP PEOPLE.

    THAT BENCH IS A LIE
  • inactive, on 10/10/2009, -2/+5I saw that one night. It has to be a REALLY clear night with a full moon. And you have to squint quite a bit. It helps if you get on your roof so you are a little closer to it.
  • Metadrew, on 10/09/2009, -0/+3Lol that is a funny phrase
  • Piha, on 10/15/2009, -0/+3It's astronomical
  • Tokenekie, on 10/10/2009, -1/+4Too bad the sun is going to bleach the photo to hell, if it hasn't done so already.
  • michaelamyers, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3what's the fine for littering on the moon?
  • optrenium, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/Ask ...

    That's one hell of a picture cover, to withstand this environment.
  • MrGlass952, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2I do not consider myself terribly fascinated with space exploration, but thoroughly enjoyed the fervent passion with which the Gizmodo writer described the photos in that book. I might actually pick up a copy now.
  • milkmage, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2amazon's got it for 20 bucks. that's a no brainer. nice glossy heavy weight paper coffee table book. Michael Light got to use first generation negatives from the NASA vault. He had to take out a special insurance policy as part of the agreement. Incredible pictures. There are a few that were never published. he took ultra-high res scans and did large format prints for a museum exhibit which I was lucky enough to see.. damn near life size enlargements - crystal clear details.. stunning.

    amazon description:
    In Full Moon, one of the best science photography books ever published, Michael Light presents a voyage in images to the Moon and back. Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them electronically. The resulting pictures are so vivid they seem more clear than real life. Light orders the photos sequentially, selecting the most arresting images from each mission, to create a truly cinematic experience. In the first section, depicting blastoff, you can almost feel the violent shaking of the rocket as it strains to escape Earth's gravity. Then you see the quiet stillness of weightlessness, the astronauts' view down at a perfectly silent Earth, boundless oceans contrasting with bright white clouds. A spacewalk adds vertigo--the astronaut looks fragile and very alone as he floats outside his capsule far above his home planet. Then comes the waiting, as the long voyage toward the Moon continues.
  • krzykrl, on 10/09/2009, -1/+3"... ever see in a long time!"

    "Ever" does imply a long time so I guess that's accurate.
  • zmigliozzi, on 10/09/2009, -1/+3Damn I was hoping to look at the moon tonight, oh wait I still can.
  • pizzaface200, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2One Starbucks.
  • pagemap, on 10/14/2009, -0/+2If I was Duke, I would have placed this photo in the shade of a nearby boulder, where it can be shielded from sunlight/UV radiation. Then we can be pretty sure it will be in the same condition in 100,000 years or more.
  • LowROI, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2My favourite line has to be "Two hands. Frozen in time."
  • MonsoonCrank, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2We need to take some bears to the moon.
  • seraph1982, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2Buried for Dugg for Watchmen
  • MrBoog, on 10/10/2009, -0/+2No way... WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!
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