Mar 17 2010Where Were The Aliens?: CG Flyby Of Mars
This is being billed as the most accurate flyby of Mars. Which, Jesus, you know things are shitty when the most accurate flyby of Mars is entirely CG.
The flyby uses 3D data gathered from HiRISE, the 0.5-meter reflecting telescope on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 3D data set was calculated by comparing HiRISE's ultra-crispy images taken from two different points of view. The photos were matched using picture recognition software and converted in a 3D surface map using the position of the orbiter. The result is the most accurate terrain information on the surface of Mars yet. The best thing: All this data is being published by NASA for everyone to use.
Impressive, but it didn't really look any more accurate than the flyby I made this morning with my crumpled bedsheets. And that one had a giant sleeping dog in the middle of it. Plus, oh I don't know, THE EPIC-EST LEGO BATTLE YOU EVER SEEN!
The Most Accurate Flyby of Mars to Date [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. naas - March 17, 2010 3:01 PM
watching that makes me thirsty
2. OJ'S Mom - March 17, 2010 3:03 PM
Mars.
Needs.
Women.
3. naas - March 17, 2010 3:04 PM
You
Are
Correct
4. Closet Nerd - March 17, 2010 3:06 PM
Pen
Is
Huge
5. Closet Nerd - March 17, 2010 4:22 PM
Go
Poke
Smot
6. naas - March 17, 2010 4:25 PM
No
More
Links
7. 24-bit whore - March 17, 2010 4:27 PM
Three
Blind
Mice
8. Closet Nerd - March 17, 2010 4:29 PM
See
Howde
Run
9. homerusLazarus - March 17, 2010 4:30 PM
ZOMBIES
ON
MARS
------where's the link to the 3d data------Left4dead on Mars anyone?--------
10. Hal - March 17, 2010 4:31 PM
Looks like the finest CGI of 1983.
11. Keno - March 17, 2010 4:32 PM
Viva
Red
Faction
12. Closet Nerd - March 17, 2010 4:34 PM
Homosexuals
Are
Gay
13. L - March 17, 2010 4:35 PM
Mars about the earth: "I'm going to blow it up. It obstructs my view of Venus."
14. L - March 17, 2010 4:38 PM
"Marvin: "mmm, yes, very curious, very interesting, I do so enjoy observing the fora and fauna of that tiny planet, I think man is the most interesting insect on earth, don't you? There is a growing tendency to think of man as a rational thinking being which is absurd, there is simply no evidence of any intelligence on the earth. Um uh... Wait! Oh, goody, some kind of activity down there. Er, could it be...it is! it is! Oh peechy! A new form of primative life, and look it's leaving it's nest. I've never witnessed a fledgling leaving it's nest before? What beautiful markings. A most unusually spe..."
15. Closet Nerd - March 17, 2010 4:54 PM
@14 I just watched some Looney Toons movies with my 3 y.o. daughter the other day...... damn, those cartoons are violent & F'ed UP!
When the black cat rejected the skunk, he pulled out a revolver, put it to his head, walked around the corner and pulled the trigger!!! WTF?!
Our parents let us watch this shit when we were little?
16. L - March 17, 2010 5:00 PM
@ 15 Yea, I hear ya. I saw the pink panther a while ago with my kid (she'll be 4 soon) and it was nutz too. However, nothing beats the violent shit I see in the new generation cartoons, I won't let her see them, maybe I'm being to protective...
17. L - March 17, 2010 5:10 PM
Oh and Happy St. Patrick's Day mother fuckers, even though I'm not irish or wearing green....but drink it up anyway.
18. Ollie Williams - March 17, 2010 5:10 PM
You
Mother
Fuckers.
19. Bear Grylls - March 17, 2010 8:13 PM
Man vs. Wild...
20. jackie y - March 17, 2010 8:43 PM
very very relaxing to watch... zzzzzzzzzzzz
* by the way, did you guys notice the Tauntaun-like rock formation at 3:07. Upper left corner.
21. Gir - March 17, 2010 10:27 PM
Needs.
Erasure.
Soundtrack.
22. Closet Nerd - March 18, 2010 9:16 AM
@16 Tom n' Jerry is REALLY bad.... and my daughter requests it all the time.
I was watching one episode and Tom went to heaven. At the pearly gates, there was a bunch of kittens in a sac that was soaking wet and the guy at the pearly gates said, "Its a shame what some people do" implying that someone had drowned all the kittens. I've heard of people doing that back in the day, but really? In a kids cartoon?!.... just sayin
23. atheistgirl - March 18, 2010 3:39 PM
Why don't we live on Mars?
In all the SF books, comics, films and Tv shows, when I was a kid, said we'd live on Mars!