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First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

chevronexxon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:09:01 EST

If you fart in space after eating nothing but tang and freeze dried ice cream, in zero gravity, will the fart eventually dissipate or can you come back fifteen minutes into the same corner you were in and smell it. The space Buttercup!

chevronexxon

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

pashdown — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:46:27 EST

Why no HD? Fire up the torrents JAXA!

pashdown

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Robert Isbell — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:31:58 EST

I am so glad to see a new photo of our home, to illustrate just how small our wars are in the big picture. I keep hoping the people that think fighting, violence, and conflict means anything needs to be stuck on the moon and have them look back at the earth.

Robert Isbell

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

tekmiester — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:01:22 EST

so is it on Blu-Ray or HD DVD?

tekmiester

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

LoganSix — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:36:13 EST

@nightsky: Didn't the flag fall down after the lunar space craft left? Maybe that's the bet, whether or not the flag is still there.

And I agree with the first post, looks like an animation.

LoganSix

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Andham — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:30:41 EST

@NZRUSS: OMFG

HOW?

Andham

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

nosaturn1 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:01:08 EST

no mic?.... further proving that
In space, no one can hear you scream

nosaturn1

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

nightsky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:57:32 EST

Most people just don't understand how things work in micro gravity without an atmosphere. We are used to things working a certain way on earth, and have no real experience of how things work out of our atmosphere and on another "planet". You cannot compare what you see in a video on another world and what you expect to happen based on your visual experience on earth. Just does not work that way.

nightsky

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

nightsky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:54:24 EST

@x23: What multiple light sources? I see one. The sun behind the craft and to the left of camera.

nightsky

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

nightsky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:53:17 EST

@lowmax: Would that be the "filmed in studio bet"? The flag "waves" because of oscillation not wind. There is no atmosphere to slow to oscillation. Gravity has to do it, and, as we all know there is only about 25% of that on the moon as compared to the earth.

nightsky

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

uclabruin2 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:48:51 EST

@BostonK: Kent Brockman right?

uclabruin2

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

nightsky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:38:53 EST

@weatherman: A microphone would be useless on the moon since a microphone works by air pressure waves, and there is none of that on the moon. You would hear... nothing.

nightsky

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

finnigan16 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:38:50 EST

Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, but if it were made of spare ribs, would you eat it? I know I would.

finnigan16

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

nightsky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:37:54 EST

@filmtex: No S**T. Did you read the caption? I too want to see the HD. It is probably coming from JAXA on their site.

nightsky

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

weatherman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:36:00 EST

They can put an HD camera on the moon but they can't attach microphone? C'mon!

weatherman

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

desimal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:34:57 EST

@BobbyMills: either fart noises, or the sound of yen being flushed down the bidet!

desimal

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

filmtex — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:28:02 EST

It's not HD, it's a flashvideo movie. HD is HD is HD. Nothing to see here. move along.

filmtex

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

dcartist — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:59:19 EST

Oooh, I can see myself... and there's my car... and my apartment...

dcartist

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

soldstatic — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:12:08 EST

@itchytooth: I LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK!

Tinkle tinkle in a car, you should really use a jar. I HAVE GINGIVITIS!

Since nerds aren't necessarily up on the children's cartoons, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, greatest character ever is Cheese. And if this was already one of those jokes that was brought up in a previous post, well, i must have missed that day.

NOW WE'RE BROTHER LADIES!

soldstatic

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Nintenboy01 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:07:49 EST

How was your vacation Addy? You and Jesus were greatly missed.

Nintenboy01

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Aristotlean — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:07:32 EST

I wonder if the camera is zooming or moving.

Look at the crater that appears with 1:41 left. Did the Kaguya/Serene monster truck over it without shaking the camera at all?
I don't think it is a zoom, because watch how the horizon disappears as if the moon is rotating, and the rover is moving away from the rotation.

All in all, without further proof, I have doubts of the source of this video.

Aristotlean

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

superdave — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:58:57 EST

@dearhaw: I agree. I want to see it in HD, dammit!

superdave

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

dragonphyre — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:57:57 EST

This is HD.

This... is... NOT HD!!!

MOONINITES! TONIGHT, WE DINE AT CARL'S HOUSE!

dragonphyre

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Dearhaw — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:45:41 EST

@BobbyMills:

You'd hear like this high screeching kind of singing voices, then you will hear "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. Quite amazing, really.

Dearhaw

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

twoback — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:36:03 EST

@twoback: uggh its [www.theflatearthsociety.org]

twoback

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

twoback — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:30:25 EST

so what has the [www.flatearthsociety.org] said about this?

twoback

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

x23 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:30:16 EST

@Saad Rabia: yeah. the shadows are all wrong. multiple light sources as if made by studio lighting mannnnnn!

x23

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Saad Rabia — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:26:28 EST

This was shot inside a studio. Lame and Useless.

Saad Rabia

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

itchytooth — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:24:52 EST

@BobbyMills: You would hear cheese.

itchytooth

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

vote Obama — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:23:50 EST

Its sad to think the blue planet might end up looking like the grey one in the foreground...

it really is.

vote Obama

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

BobbyMills — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:21:56 EST

wait, if there was sound, what exactly would we hear?

BobbyMills

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

Dearhaw — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:21:48 EST

@beneditor:

Yeah, I'm slightly miffed by that, too. What's the use of touting HD when they only make available something that's only slightly better than SD?

Then again, with somebody like NHK (kinda like BBC) behind the HD technology, I can understand why: they want to keep the HD content exclusive to their TV shows. Still miffed to think that it's my tax Yen that went into the spacecraft :p

Dearhaw

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

lowmax — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:20:56 EST

Any hope for some HD footage of the waving American flag... Someone wants to win a 5 year old bet.

lowmax

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

wig — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:18:42 EST

"And then they squeezed the thing down to a miserable 480 x 270 pixels; heavily compressed etc..."

Sigh. Where is the "HD" in that?

wig

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

beneditor — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:12:33 EST

"Now you know"? I know what it looks like in a crappy little box on a computer screen. I would LOVE to know what it looks like in HD. The link only has a lower res vid too...

beneditor

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

NZRUSS — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:10:36 EST

I've seen that planet up close.

NZRUSS

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

BostonK — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:01:12 EST

I for one welcome our Earthling overlords.

BostonK

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

LillieDesigns — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:59:09 EST

this looked cool with some as i lay dying playing on my itunes.

LillieDesigns

First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

PRO7 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:53:16 EST

Looks animated...

PRO7