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What blows my mind is that Saturn in that image looks almost exactly like it does in the intro to Star Trek The Next Generation, which I always chalked up as ba
by pluma 9y ago
What blows my mind is that Saturn in that image looks almost exactly like it does in the intro to Star Trek The Next Generation, which I always chalked up as bad CGI.
- dclowd9901 9y agoTry seeing it through a powerful eyepiece telescope. It’s absolutely one of the most astonishing experiences I’ve ever had.
- rbanffy 9y agoConsider this image is from Voyager. Cassini captured much higher resolution ones.
- pluma 9y agoHigher res maybe, but it still looks amazingly fake: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur-images https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur... I guess what's messing with me is that it just looks so smooth, which life-long exposure to CGI has taught me to mean that it's fake. This reminds me of what Elon Musk said about his Tesla in space: you can tell it's real because it looks so fake.