Flight of the Navigator vibes
I don’t leak navigator, you leak.
Haha whoa that looks so sick! It’s huge!!!
Apparently it was up there for around a decade before breaking up, with one of the largest fragments finally “deorbiting” in 2016.
Just like in that movie, Sphere, with Dustin Hoffman.
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I read the book! Michael Crichton. Same guy who wrote Jurassic park
I really like the book - I think it’s one of his best. Subtle ‘unreliable narrator’ mind-fuck from beginning to end, nicely written and characterised. The film of it is an abomination, though.
I’ve not read the book yet but I’ve seen the movie and it’s enjoyable by itself, maybe not a great adaptation, but still it was not terrible
You know its reflective surface? Well, uh…
I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys…
…What worries me is that it’s reflecting everything but us.
i noticed that in the OP too and it confused me a bit. then i noticed the dark corner bottom left, which is probably a bit of the wall of the dark room the picture was taken out of. that’s why the photographer isn’t in the reflection.
Just look at the center of the sphere. You see distant scaffolding and walkways. The camera could be a small one set up there.
With context my first thought was a still from a movie about capturing a UFO
‘Sphere’ and ‘Navigator’ come to mind…
For those wondering: it was inflatable. So it didn’t weigh very much and wasn’t very big at launch. It then inflated to this huge size shown here.
I haven’t watched Phantasm in a while
Photographer is hiding in plain sight. Really. I have no idea how they did this.
I think they’re on the end of the catwalk right above the small building in the corner, which would make sense since they’d have to appear in the middle of the sphere unless the image is cropped. Hard to be sure with this resolution, but I’d bet those few lighter pixels are the person holding the camera.
Getting Flight of the Navigator vibes.
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Compliance!
Ohhhhhhhhh, it was a balloon. I knew no spacecraft before or since could lift up something that size in a single trip.
But where’s the giant hand holding it and the bearded Dutchman?
This looks like an HDRI sphere render. :D
Where’s the photographer in the reflection?
If my understanding of physics is correct, they’d have to be slap bang in the centre of the reflected image (assuming a perfect sphere), so somewhere on the framework of the corner of the building.
The center line of lights in the reflection is higher than the location on the wall, which leads me to believe that the photographer is just above vertical center. * Due to the nature of photographing a sphere horizontally they would have to be exactly centered.
I think they’re somewhere around here
I think standing near the red things in the middle of the reflection. Look at the size of the forklift in the reflection for reference.
i noticed that in the OP too and it confused me a bit. then i noticed the dark corner bottom left, which is probably a bit of the wall of the dark room the picture was taken out of. that’s why the photographer isn’t in the reflection.
That’s no moon…
Almost looks like the Sphere in that movie Sphere.
Or the giant ball bearing in Ball Bearing.
Something something Spaceballs.
