modey Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 flololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 lol awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 has this one been posted yet? http://www.360cities...98.55,9.49,34.7 someone stitched together the available images and composited a seamless interactive 360 degree panorama.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 It would have to move faster than the speed of light for us to see into the past. If it went the speed of light we would only see what happened after it launched. so theoretically we could see the evolution of man with a shapeship/camera that travels from some crazy distant at a rate equal to the pace of real time towards earth and have a singular google maps view until the present? i think it had to travel faster than light way faster!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Venera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 panorama with less advertisements: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 panorama with less advertisements: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731 looks like earth minus all the life stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blanket Fort Collapse Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Since WATMM projects are always so efficient and militantly executed we should just start our own terraform mars reality tv mission. We can not do this and fail miserably guys! It will be good fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Venera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera Amazing history. Those damned ruskies were at it way earlier than those us-ians. more pics here: http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 [youtubehd]RyBffhiOuVU[/youtubehd] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 too bad they couldn't get eno to do a live performance at the command center during the actual descent, full with a decent quality mp3 stream to the Curiosity's main speaker box, blasting into to space as it falls... and in the end the solar powered speaker box will be left where the rover landed and loop the same ambient sounds forever and ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Venera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera Amazing history. Those damned ruskies were at it way earlier than those us-ians. more pics here: http://www.mentallan...atalogVenus.htm I've been following this since I was a kid, and I've never seen those photos you showed. The page you linked to doesn't have them, either. Where did you find them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 don't remember, sure its not in the link? edit: nvm, it isn't. odd edit 2: if I think of where I got it ill pm you or update this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 just noticed that the black and white versions of the images are in your link. Seems the images were reverse-engineered from the original panoramic shots more recently (using Photoshop). Not sure that explains the great color too, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Not sure where you are in you're line of thinking, but the yellow color is later added and an attempt to recreate the actual colors of Venus. Yes, the air of Venus is yellow. More info is in the link I posted. After a bit of reading it is explained that the ugly yellow fonts are also used as a reference to the color of Venus' atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 yeah I read that, thanks dork. Where I'm going with it is those pics are old, from the 70's. I remember them well, as they sparked my childhood imagination. Yet, I've never seen those versions anywhere before now. Not because they're in color, but because they are undistorted panorama shots (the ones I remember all show the round, serrated edge of the craft, a bunch of rocks in a semicircle, but no flat horizon line, and not much atmosphere). I already partially answered my own question, by noticing on that linked page that they have the black and white versions of the OP's images, that were apparently un-distorted and patched up using Photoshop more recently. Mystery solved (though again, not sure how "true color" the images are...even many recent Mars photos are shown in false color to make the images pop and show the "blueberries" better. I believe the color was encoded somehow...they also say the landers had red, blue and green filters...anyway, whatevs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 You're welcome! edit.: also note that in some pictures you can see a color strip as a reference. The color strip that was actually on the lander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomeperson Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Is Mars in Meheeco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 really wish I knew how to use the Drake equation... =P http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120821-how-many-alien-worlds-exist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adam Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Meh, Fi = 0 most likely anyway. And if it isn't we're living in a simulation, in which it is most likely 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Even if you put Fi = 1 you still get a very large number (187,500 in the galaxy alone). The universe is humongous (duh ), so even at .5 or .1, or even .001 (187 in the galaxy) the odds of other intelligent life being somewhere in the entirety of the universe are still almost a certainty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adam Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I said FI=0 If intelligent life beyond earth exists the odds that its before or around our level of intelligence are extremely low. If it is beyond that then most likely by millions of years. A civilization this advanced could have von Neumann probes, self improving AI and even without them they could use entire galaxies as an energy source. The signs would be obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 If Fi = 0, then we wouldn't exist. It would have to be an obscenely low number like .00000000000000000000000001 (probably smaller) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adam Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 No, the equation is about extraterrestrial life. Doesn't matter though, it's not even made to take it very seriously, even when you do you we don't know most of the numbers and since Fi is most likely 0 the result will be most likely 0. Or the intelligent life has chosen to hide its existance from us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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