I know what you mean. Possibly, part of the reason it looks fake is because of the low exposure which doesn't allow for any stars to appear on the video - so it's just blackness where you'd expect to see points of light.
Look up images of a desert on Google. Looks fake right? The sand looks too smooth, the patterns look too regular and the shading seems off. But it is real.
Imagine never having seen large bodies of water. When you're 18, you get to see the ocean. It is wild, it is harsh, it is colorful, it is vivid and it is nothing like the glasses of water you grew up with.
That is what space is like. I bet when space travel becomes more accesible for normal people, the feeling of 'fakeness' will fade away.
That's the thing though, the reason you can't see them in pictures/video is because of the other brighter objects in the sky, in this case the Earth but it could also be the sun or, in the case of the moon pictures, the moon surface itself outshines the stars. If you were actually in space you could see the stars in all their glory as long as your eyes don't have anything brighter to adapt to. So... say you're on the ISS on the dark side of Earth or on sitting on the dark side of the moon, you would be able to see stars better than at night while standing on Earth (no atmosphere or light pollution to get in the way). If there was no sun, space would be star-filled to our eyes and for cameras as well.
What really does that is the fact that, with the exception of some angles, nothing is reflected off the car since its in space. We're used to cars being at least a little reflective.
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u/Gravityislikeaids Feb 07 '18
I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around this. It's so absurd that it's brilliant.