Artemis II is Incredible

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The flatearthers are going to have a field day with how good those photos of the solar eclipse look from Artemis 2.

[00:00:08]>> Oh man, >> they look almost too good to be real. Do you want Do you want to do you want to fire it up while I just talk through the thing?

[00:00:14]>> The full NASA gallery is based, so I'll go there.

[00:00:18]>> The Artemis 2 crew took a bunch of photos of the moon during their lunar flyby and the images look like something out of Asimov's Foundation series. So, honestly, even even some of the ones from inside the ship, like that is such a sick photo, dude.

[00:00:33]>> Wow. Wow.

[00:00:34]>> Absolutely. This is about as based as a photo can be yet a moon base.

[00:00:39]>> This is probably the coolest photo of someone taking a photo.

[00:00:44]Uh but okay, we'll get to we'll get to real ones. You can download these. They are really high-res, fantastic background bait for for people who want to make cool stuff. Um, some of these are just Yeah. Wow. Isn't >> that incredible?

[00:01:00]Um, okay. That one to the right there.

[00:01:03]>> This one?

[00:01:04]>> No. Uh, left. Left. Yeah. Oh, I I love this one.

[00:01:11]That is so just like OLED friendly background.

[00:01:16]>> Yeah. Wow. Maybe there's a little bit too much contrast along the bottom left, but still.

[00:01:23]Oh, that's so cool. Um, there's a recreation of the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8.

[00:01:31]>> It's It's Yeah.

[00:01:32]>> Uh, hold on. This one. They're very similar.

[00:01:36]>> I mean, they were taken They were taking a lot of photos. They were taking a lot of photos.

[00:01:39]>> This one's specifically called out, is it? But yeah.

[00:01:42]>> Um, here's an eclipse shot.

[00:01:45]Oh, man.

[00:01:47]>> So good.

[00:01:48]>> That was so cool.

[00:01:49]>> So good.

[00:01:50]Oh man.

[00:01:53]Edge of the moon in nighttime is visible in the background as the sun is setting on the opposite side. The image captures the beginning of a total solar eclipse that astronauts were able to observe at the end of their lunar observation period. Ah ah it's just it's just the the writeups are just exactly what was happening and yet they sound so cool.

[00:02:15]Commander Reed Wiseman told mission control it was a surreal experience and said he'd need to invent new adjectives because no existing words could describe what they were seeing out the window.

[00:02:25]NASA has shared the full metadata for the photos to prove that they are real unprocessed captures from the Orion capsule. They're not renders. They're not composites. Just breathtaking photos. And yet I I firmly believe >> photos of a set.

[00:02:40]>> I firmly believe that because they look too good, someone out there will believe they are fake.

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[00:02:48]>> I believe that they're real. And I firmly believe that I don't care because I choose to live in a world where it is real and that is more interesting and more fun and more exciting.

[00:03:00]It was um I I I I made the mistake of watching a a small amount of a reaction video of someone watching a stream of some flatearthers watching the launch and like talking about how they were faking it and um >> faking the launch >> like fake. Yeah, of course. just go >> cuz a rocket launch has to be fake if if >> cuz a rocket launch has to be fake if if the earth is, you know, flat and stuff.

[00:03:29]the earth is, you know, flat and stuff.

[00:03:32]>> You can see it from so far away and you >> You can see it from so far away and you can go not that far away.

[00:03:36]can go not that far away.

[00:03:37]>> Dude, they start talking about like how >> Dude, they start talking about like how many camera angles there are and how many camera angles there are and how many cuts there are to conceal like the many cuts there are to conceal like the I don't know the set or like the I don't know the set or like the fakeness of it. They they cut that. It's fakeness of it. They they cut that. It's like you know how many you know how many like you know how many you know how many camera angle cuts there are in a soccer camera angle cuts there are in a soccer game? just go game? Does that mean nobody has ever played soccer? What are you even talking about?

[00:03:58]>> Like it's watching watching these people twist themselves into mental gymnastic pretzels to continue to believe something that is just so obviously not true.

[00:04:11]Like you can just >> You think any of it's bait?

[00:04:15]>> I wish it was.

[00:04:18]>> Like some of it has got to be bait. Some of it. I'm sure there's also people, >> here's the thing, >> that believe it.

[00:04:24]>> If the influencers are all are 100% of them, if 100% of them are grifters, >> dude, my my NASA paycheck came in.

[00:04:32]>> Sure. So, if 100% of the influencers in the space are grifters, then if nobody actually believed it, who would be following them then?

[00:04:48]Like I'm saying even if the people who are who are most active in propagating the conspiracy theory are in on it.

[00:04:55]>> Okay.

[00:04:56]>> Obviously somebody's not because they wouldn't be watching this.

[00:05:01]>> So So I can't So I can't accept >> But you watched it.

[00:05:05]>> No, I watched someone making watching it to make fun of it.

[00:05:08]>> But I think there's a lot of people that will rage stuff like that.

[00:05:11]>> Okay. I'm going to say something sadder.

[00:05:14]um a peripheral family member.

[00:05:17]>> Oh no.

[00:05:18]>> I ended up in like a fairly >> I don't know about heated but definitely firm conversation with about it at some point. So >> that's unfortunate.

[00:05:28]>> Yeah. And there was like it wasn't it wasn't like at the end of it they were like just kidding.

[00:05:35]Like you know there there was >> emotion.

[00:05:39]So, no. No. I'm sorry. I >> the level of commitment to something so sad.

[00:05:48]>> It's almost admirable in a way.

[00:05:49]>> It's just a >> No, it's not >> a less interesting world.

[00:05:54]It's like there's so much like >> I don't know. I think a flat I think a a flat like pancake thing rotating around amidst all the other round planets is pretty interesting. But like also to believe that we've never made it out there and we've never learned these things. We've never, you know, mankind never took that step. Like it's just it's smaller. It's narrower. It's uh >> I mean it's only a small step.

[00:06:20]>> So much dark there's so much darkness and like sadness and negativity in the world very heavily right now.

[00:06:27]>> Not on the land show.

[00:06:28]>> And there's there's these there's these >> moments of like human brightness that happen. And to deny that is just so sad.

[00:06:36]I I that that's why it's like I fully believe that it's real and even if I didn't I would want to.

[00:06:44]>> Okay. This might not be a topic for W show but would you extend that logic to >> I do with placebo things >> dragons.

[00:06:56]Do you choose to believe Abominable Snowman is real because that's more interesting. I think Abominable Snowman is pretty interesting.

[00:07:02]>> It's not good though.

[00:07:04]That's interesting, >> but it's not good. Part of this is that it's good.

[00:07:07]>> Sure. I mean, the vacuum of space is not good, but it's interesting.

[00:07:13]>> There's nothing to lead me to believe either of those things are legitimate.

[00:07:17]Uh, >> okay. So, you want some evidence.

[00:07:18]>> I don't think they're vaguely interesting. I don't think they're anywhere even in the same stratosphere as interesting as as as this. And I don't see them as good. So, like I don't think they're equivalencies. I understand what you're trying to go for.

[00:07:32]There might be other things. I think for me it's placebo.

[00:07:35]>> So within limits of you know things that you have actual any evidence for whatsoever, you choose to believe the more interesting and exciting version >> and good >> for now.

[00:07:45]>> And that's one of the like I will I will repeatedly tell myself that if I take like a a drug or a treatment for something, I will like push into my brain repeatedly like it's good that I'm taking this cuz it works, >> right? Oh, yeah. And I'll like fullheartedly believe that because I'm like, "All right, come on. In some way, in some way, this will work." So like, yeah, I think I do that with more than just NASA stuff, but then I als I mean I've I've seen a rocket take off. So like I don't know, bro.

[00:08:20]You can just go. The ducks are free.

[00:08:23]Like I don't know, man.