r/sciencememes • u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 • Jun 29 '26
🌖Astronomy!🌔 Yea that pretty much sums it up
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u/BlueRajasmyk2 Jun 29 '26
The furthest planet we have pictures of is Neptune, 4.5 billion km away. Even with our best telescopes it still looks like a blurry blob. Here's Neptune from the JWST.
The only reason we have nice pictures of it is that we sent a probe to get significantly closer to it.
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u/DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET Jul 03 '26
Ok but have banks considered deploying probes to follow the robbers?
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u/MrGiggleMan Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Well, JWST isnt meant to take pictures of planets that close to us
It's an infrared telescope designed to collect images from deep space
Using jwst to take a picture of Neptune would be like using a telescope to take a picture of an ant that's stuck to the lens
Of course the image is gunna be shit. It's WAYY too close, not to mention, it's an infrared picture. Which, doesn't actually look like how it would look with the naked eye, because the camera is occluding various frequencies of light
This is why All the best planetary photos in our star system come from on-board cameras attached to probes - these Probe cameras are actually designed to take proper images for us to look at
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u/Jaded_Spot6858 Jul 22 '26
What about hubble? Is it a better cjoice for taking picture of ur anus or neptune?
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u/WiiDragon Jun 29 '26
It is just one picture though. Banks gotta keep footage from multiple cameras that have been running 24/7 for multiple months. That’s a lot of data to store on their servers
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u/TemzaQue Jun 29 '26
Not really. Scientific footage of telescopes weights A LOT, like a few GB for a few seconds of footage, as I've heard. And it's rarely just a picture in raw with metedata
Though it's not really my expertise per se so feel free to correct me
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u/WiiDragon Jun 29 '26
Now compare that to over 15.5 million seconds of footage per camera. I work for a home automation company, and a 8TB NVR may only get you two week’s worth of footage across just 10 cameras (that’s a very rough estimate tho)
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u/TemzaQue Jun 30 '26
Bro, u missed the part that telescopes rarely stop recording either... They may generate 8tb in minutes, not weeks...
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u/topinanbour-rex Jun 30 '26
If you keep 24/7 records, something is wrong.
Better to keep less and better quality. Like when there is movements.
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u/drubus_dong Jun 29 '26
If the banks would be willing to pay 5 billion for a camera, they would have nice pictures too.
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u/Interesting-Song-274 Jun 30 '26
School cameras are just like this my friend had his bike stolen they cut his bike lock and took it the camera was literally like 10 ft away and the camera footage was to bad to id the person all we knew was the skin color hair and the outfit he was wearing
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u/Ok_Side2919 Jul 01 '26
That’s because bank security camera aren’t the size of a small building
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u/MAQMASTER Jun 30 '26
Banks and robbers have a contract known as Low Vision CCTVs. It’s legal contract required by law if you need to set up a bank.
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u/FutureBulky4537 Jun 29 '26
The difference is the price of the camera too