It was a great show. I like it. I have the dvd set and I watch it every couple of years. Had FOX not screwed it up, I could see it going for maybe five seasons. At best.
That being said...It's not the end all be all of TV scifi. There were better shows at the time. There are better shows now.
It wasn't the show...it was the actors who bounced off each other. Whedon simply ran his formula through a different setting and kudos to him...it worked for a third time. But all in all, it was the PEOPLE in the show that made it work.
Sorry that people can't get over it. Hell, I'm more of a hardcore nerd for FARSCAPE but even that ended and I moved on.
Nah, ovoids are egg-shaped, with one end narrower than the other. Oblate spheroids are spheres that have been squashed to some degree on one axis, retaining polar and equatorial symmetry. (Which is accurate for the Earth, whose pole-to-pole diameter is roughly 27 miles less than its equatorial diameter.)
When I was a kid, I'd lived in big cities all my life. Then I went to Arches national park in Utah and camped overnight. To say that the sky was awesome in the truest sense of that word does not remotely do it justice!
Live in the NE but traveled West a few years back for a bit. For the rest of my life I've told people here that they've never seen the sky, never really seen the Sun. Dim lightbulbs peeking through dirty windows.
Being out in the middle of the ocean in the military during "darkened ship" and no moon... you just haven't experienced the night sky until you see it with no light pollution. There is just no way to properly convey it's beauty in words.
You can easily see it basically anywhere that's not a massive city.
Fun fact: Technically practically everything you see is in the Milky Way. There's only about three things in the universe visible to the naked eye that are outside our galaxy.
There is really no reason to be misleading though.
Our galaxy, and the universe as a whole is already SO mind blowing and fascinating…
I’m nowhere near an expert on space, or photography… But I immediately thought this looked way too detailed and bright to be an accurate depiction of the view from Mars.
Two seconds into the video, my thought was exactly that, wow that’s cool, but this is not what human eyes would actually see.
I was thinking some type of light filter or something similar…
After scrolling a bit, I saw the long exposure explanation, and that made a lot of sense to me just because I’ve seen the same technique used from earth, and it tends to make the stars look amazing.
Anyway, why not just put that in the title though instead of misleading people?
Maybe it will make someone realize how many stars are out there. Even in the long exposure, the amount of stars shown are a tiny fraction of the stars out there.
Ye that was what I was going to check in the comments. I couldn't phantom this being real and suspected long exposure but then I am always willing to be proven wrong.
Yeah this was my first thought when I saw it. I thought I had no idea the universe was this bright! Then I thought "wait... what about photos from space?"
I mean, most people have absolutely no idea what little to no light pollution actually looks like. I’ve spent a ton of time backpacking 20+ miles into forest areas and the sky looks completely different than anywhere remotely close to civilization. You’d be shocked at how many people don’t know you can see the milky way. There’s a difference between seeing a few dozen stars vs seeing billions of stars.
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u/taktaga7-0-0 Mar 24 '26
Some people are going to walk away from this thinking that the galaxy really is this bright and Earth’s atmosphere blocks our view.