As the launch was happening I said to my wife "AI must be making Kubrick's job so much simpler" and she just sort of glared at me...

I’ve made better screenshots in KSP

Imagine being the furthest people away from Donald Trump.

To be fair a lot of meteors hit earths atmosphere and disintegrate. Poor moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to protect it though

These types of photos always do remind me of the fact that we live in an incredibly hostile universe. Helps me to appreciate how lucky we are to have this watery rock with a big bubble around it to live on.

Yeah but the one time (we think we know of) that we collided with another planet, the moon didn't even show up until just after. Fucking slacker.

And ever since then, it's been edging farther and farther away, like it has better things to do than take meteors to the face for us (and asteroids to the ass). We need some sort of tether or leash to keep it where it is.

Which just happens to be when it's the same apparent size as the sun, a lucky coincidence for anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing one, because this might be the only place in the entire galaxy where such a thing even happens.

The proper terminology is moon yeti

yeah but i've heard a nice explanation that basically the last 50 years were spent on developing IT, which we need for better rockets. so instead of flying with rockets directly in 1970, we paused, developed computers that can do meaningful and complex navigation, and then built rockets.

Images.nasa.gov

png is completely the wrong format for photos.

I've been using it as a sort of litmus test for AI images. Even at a high quality setting, AVIF compresses them down to almost nothing.
Something to do with the lack of natural "jitter" in AI images and the way AVIF has been designed to perfectly deal with this.

It's a very efficient royalty-free codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF?wprov=sfla1

It's a .webp file for me.

Chances are the program you're using supports all this crap, and ignores the extension anyway, because far too many people just rename files to "convert" them.

Only real way to be sure is to open it with a hex editor. The first few bytes will tell you what a file type really is.

Why don't they call it "leaving" a dump? After all, you're not actually taking it anywhere!