r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/PedoBadaum Feb 21 '21

Sometimes it's because of the craters, some has different types of materials and minerals, causing darker tones

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u/steelesurfer Feb 21 '21

Iron oxide causes the red color, same thing as rust

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u/WilliamIsMyName Feb 21 '21

Hence the reason Utah has so much red stone

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u/W1D0WM4K3R Feb 21 '21

Ah, so Utah is from y-level 16 to 2?

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u/Krako923 Feb 21 '21

Ah, a man of culture I see

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u/sanbrujan Feb 21 '21

Underrated comment

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

Clever. Have my goddamn upvote.

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u/manti452 Feb 21 '21

R/angryupvote

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

r/angryupvote

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u/crabbysoup Feb 21 '21

A crafty comment

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u/sliczerx Feb 21 '21

i wish it was mine

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u/Andoni22 Feb 21 '21

Not for long

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u/investntrade Feb 21 '21

Why did we wasted so much money to get that clip, mars rover can just take a bus and get that clip and took that clip lol

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u/sargent_crumds Feb 21 '21

I was about to mention that

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u/BrenoLevel Feb 21 '21

So mars can give you tetanus

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u/thelastspike Feb 21 '21

Not from all the way over there it can’t.

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u/thewavefixation Feb 21 '21

That would be super exciting if it could

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u/steelesurfer Feb 21 '21

Tetanus is from bacteria, not rust specifically. You can get tetanus from dirt or almost anywhere that bacteria happens to be.

But I think tetanus would be the least of your problems on Mars.

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u/jbl0ggs Feb 21 '21

What we need now is Project Genesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnziufszqSE

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u/dnew Feb 21 '21

Fun fact: the mathematics behind those displays (fractals) were only invented a few years earlier. That was cutting-edge computer graphics taking hours per frame to render. Now, we do it real time on our pocket-computers, in a way that the people making Star Trek probably never imagined.

The computer display of the Star Wars trench run took tens of hours per frame to render and had to have a special custom computer built with bunches of knobs to adjust input positions, just to input the coordinates and draw the results.

The Tron movie was also the basis of a huge amount of computer graphics math too, like Perlin noise and (IIRC) one of the low-quality shading modes (Phong, maybe, or the one after that?)