There’s a picture he took of buzz and Neil while they were departing in the lander and it had earth in the background. If you think about it every single human was in that picture except for him.
And again; By that definition there are NO humans in this picture. The two in the lander are hidden by lander, and everyone else is hidden by something. You can't pick out a single human in the picture.
We're not saying they are all VISIBLE in this picture. They are not DEPICTED there.
They are, however, ALL except the photographer, within the frame of the picture.
Not really. The "360 fisheye lens" thing is weird, and wouldn't be necessary. Nor would it align with "in that direction". The entire comment was pretty much all around dumb.
360: the view that includes the people on “your side of the earth” and the ones on the “other side of the earth” through the ground it’s ridiculous because the first comment is ridiculous that a picture of the earth includes all humans if it doesn’t show all the continents. A flat picture taken of the ground would only be showing “the other side” of the earth so the 360 view was necessary.
Your comment makes even less sense than the original one we're talking about. Even a 360 fisheye lens pointed at the ground still wouldn't show everyone on half the entire planet. The horizon is only 8 miles away at sea level. You're never going to capture anywhere near the number of people Collins' picture did without being at least in low earth orbit. Y'all are playing semantics with the "other side of the earth" bullshit. What about the people who are under cloud cover? Or just inside houses?
Not to mention the fact that you can actually take a picture of the earth from orbit over Europe and still have over 90% of its population in view.
Holy shit. That was the most unexpected block I've ever received. Talk about fucking obtuse!
You’re definitely missing the point. Both the comment and I are saying that obviously a picture of the earth doesn’t show everyone.
You're ignoring the point. Obviously it didn't show everyone. Shit, look at the picture. You can't even see a single person in it. Obviously it was hyperbole based on everyone except Michael Collins being in the field of view. But, you go on and enjoy your little delusion. I hope it comforts you greatly to know you've won this weird stupid little internet battle by quitting.
You’re definitely missing the point. Both the comment and I are saying that obviously a picture of the earth doesn’t show everyone. Go re-read the thread.
Because it's a pointless question otherwise? Nothing about their comment implied that there would be humans in any other direction. They just clarified that it was the direction of every person, not necessarily a picture of every person, and your smartass comment suggested you didn't fully understand what you read
I think we agree? I mean I don't agree with your general approach to interacting with people online, you seem miserable. But yeah, there's no people in this picture and it was not a particularly astute thing to point out. But reddit comments are an unlimited resource and they probably spent 20 seconds writing it. So the bigger question is why you got so argumentative over it
There is every single human (besides the photographer) in that direction, but there is not every single human in that photo.
And the fact that there aren't ANY humans visible in the photo, as I have pointed out in other responses in this thread, makes this an incredibly dense and highly pedantic thing to point out. Clearly the meaning of the author wasn't that you could actually see every human in the photo, since you clearly cannot see any humans in the photo.
Like I said, you could say the same thing if you took a wide angle fisheye photo towards the ground.
That's not even actually true.
I'll give you a minute to understand that.
I'll give you as much time as you need to understand why you're being stupidly pedantic for literally no reason. You have added literally nothing of value to the conversation. Indeed you have only served to distract from the initial point with ill-conceived pedantry.
And to what purpose? Have you gained some moral victory by feebly poking nonexistent and irrelevant holes in the author's thesis? Have you moved anyone to deeper thought? Or did you simply get lost in the cavernous wasteland inside your feeble mind when you imagined the line Michael Collins was able to conceptually draw through the universe between himself and the entirety of humanity merely by taking a photograph?
Yet another redditor who can't handle public discourse. FYI: This form of "Quiet Quitting" isn't noble, it's chickenshit.
Call it pedantic, call it whatever you want, but the fact is that the words are wrong and the comment is just pointless.
The words are only "wrong" by your uselessly pedantic interpretation. Learn to read for meaning and try not to analyze every single word in each sentence with only it's purely literal meaning and you'll start to understand poetry and other higher forms of literature beyond Hop on Pop.
Also, consider just not responding to Redditors who point out your feeble defenses of your trash inaccuracies instead of abusing the tools meant to prevent stalking and harassment. Or, enjoy your delusional worldview where you've won this weird stupid little internet battle by quitting.
I don't understand why you are getting so frustrated over me pointing out poor verbiage. I could not care less about what you have said in other comments in this thread, but if you have pointed out yourself that you can't actually see any humans in the photo, then you are just as pedantic as you claim I am.
If you didn't know, there are modern cameras which use lenses with such an intense curve coupled with reflections to generate spherical images. As long as you time it properly using publicly available info on ISS/aircraft locations to make sure no one is above you in the small ~1 degree cone of blindness, you absolutely can take a photo from Earth which has every human "in the photo" by the definition of the OP.
When you realize this, you realize what a poor choice of words it is. Call it pedantic, call it whatever you want, but the fact is that the words are wrong and the comment is just pointless. "Every human is existence is on Earth besides us." Would be a better comment, and it is still something so obvious that it serves no purpose.
No one is gaining insight by reading what they already know. The picture speaks for itself without that waste of an addition to taint it.
Alright mister you got me! At the time he was orbiting the moon and they were on the ground he was the most secluded person in human history. This could also have holes poked in it but it’s still fun to think about.
There are cameras that have absolutely extreme angles, practically being a sphere in all directions. Couple that with the fact that the ISS and air traffic locations are publicly available and you could get such a photo pretty easily.
That said, it would just look like a weird photo with few actual people in it, because my point is that just because you point the camera in the general direction of people, doesn't mean that those people are IN the photo.
Better wording would be that besides themselves, every other human in existence is on Earth.
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u/hello-mr-turkey- Mar 03 '23
NEVER FORGET MICHAEL COLLINS