r/spaceporn • u/feeling_impossible • Feb 07 '18

Surreal, absurd, outlandish, preposterous... But there it is. The entire earth clearly reflected off the side of a car. [1920x1080]

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u/bubbleberry1 Feb 07 '18

Looks like a flat disk to me.

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u/aparis1983 Feb 07 '18

Sadly, some people will actually believe that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18 edited Jun 03 '20

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u/AtlKolsch Feb 07 '18

CGI

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u/GrafZeppelin127 Feb 07 '18

I wish this wasn’t a joke, but it’s painfully accurate.

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u/AtlKolsch Feb 07 '18 edited Feb 07 '18

Musk made a funny point in an interview last night. Paraphrasing: “You can tell it isn’t fake by how bad it looks. We have really good CGI now, if it were fake, it would look much better”

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u/wnbaloll Feb 07 '18

That’s... heh. He’s right. If we faked it we’d clearly show just the right countries and only clouds over the oceans and really make our planet look picturesque and not how it really is

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u/Qwiggalo Feb 07 '18

The exposure change could be nonexistant, but in the stream there's a moment where the camera has to adjust, damn reality...