science

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.

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.

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.

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

It definitely reminds me of a cave.

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.

Except no weathering.

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.

Looks like an old attic with dirty insulation