• Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    With pictures like this it’s so hard to convince my brain that it’s not just a picture of a random boulder taken with flash at night.

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      I was looking at pictures of Mars’ surface from Curiosity with my uncle who is a lunar landing and science denier. He said, “That could be taken at any desert on Earth.” I was like NO SHIT! You mean to tell me that other planets have rocks too?!?! No fucking way! What do you expect it to look like?

      You and your 6th grade reading level somehow outsmarted two generations of NASA scientists and their massive coverup and lies about space exploration? No, you fucking dunce.

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        I hope he’s not watching David Weiss’ content. He keeps showing an image that was taken on earth, modified to look like Mars, and then claims it’s directly from NASA’s website.

        Whenever he’s asked for the direct source he says he’ll send it over, but never does.

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        Tell him if they faked it. Russia would not waste a moment to point that out.

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          They congratulated us. If we faked it, Russia would have faked it first.

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      There are barely visible tiny features that would have eroded away on Earth.

      That said, they are barely visible and tiny. If somebody said it’s just some weird concretion, I’d completely believe it.

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      When you think about it, that’s kinda exactly what it is. Which is very cool :-D

      Just a big random boulder in space amongst a whole solar system of random boulders, taken with a light for illumination because it’s dark, yo

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      I mean, you’re not wrong.

      Except this specific boulder isn’t stuck in earth’s gravity well, it’s got its own thing going on.

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      I worked on Landsat 9 a few years ago, and when I got on-console for my first shift after it launched, I remembered seeing the telemetry come down and thinking, huh, doesn’t look any different than when we simulated the data…how do I know we actually sent it up there?

      Then something went wrong that i had to fix and I snapped back to reality.

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      There’s absolutely no sense of scale here.

      What we see as rocks, could absolutely be boulders…

      We’d tend to error of the side of ‘small’ but with no fluid (liquid or air) erosion, these could be massive.