Look at this comet's terrifically chaotic surface

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/25/terrifically-chaotic-gif-of-a.html

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How is Bruce Willis supposed to land on that?!

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My first thought was the the makers of Armageddon didn’t actually get it terribly wrong. Pretty hostile.

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It looks beautiful to me, with the stark and angry beauty of a desert in a blizzard.

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Reminds me of the “3D moving background models” used in the old, Fleischer Studio, Popeye cartoons.

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I think that has actually nothing to do with Philae, but is actually sediments of OSIRIS camera images put together. The Philae lander actually returned only a series of oddly lit narrow views of nearby objects and these were nothing like the landscape and cliff we see here. Sorry to burst the balloon…

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This would make one hell of a snowglobe. RO-O-O-OSEBUD!!

Make it so, make it so, make it so.

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Pretty nifty, but really if you want chaos up close, look at any damned coastline. They are teeming with chaos.

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_________ ?

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This whole “comet” thing is a Twitter hoax. That’s actually a short sequence from one of the early Frankenstein movies, I believe.

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Having Minnesota flashbacks. :wind_face::snowflake:

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Welp, that’s makes the video about 362% less interesting. Shame, it could’ve been great.

Oh well.

Next!

Simply incredible. Whole stories are embedded here.

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Prove your falseness.

Not ‘sediments’ - ‘segments’. Fumbly fingers! And, today’s APOD confirms my assertion re the data source.

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