I am a Ph.D. astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. I have won numerous awards for science writing…
Notice how the "science communicator" uses an aminated GIF of the departing Messenger space probe that gives the impression it's moving away at 4 Earth diameters in 4 seconds.
This is what junk science does: dishonestly cheats and misleads you with badly-presented true facts that someone else discovered with hard, honest work.
You have to notice that the Earth rotates a half revolution in those 4 seconds, so the space probe travelled that distance in 12 hours. Still fast, but not light-speed fast.
You have to do your own thinking to avoid being victimized by the Siegels of the world.
This is what junk science does: dishonestly cheats and misleads you with badly-presented true facts that someone else discovered with hard, honest work.
You have to notice that the Earth rotates a half revolution in those 4 seconds, so the space probe travelled that distance in 12 hours. Still fast, but not light-speed fast.
It's not dishonest to use a speed up a visualization for something so simple which spans the course of hours, would anyone give enough of a shit to watch a dot move across the screen for twelve hours at a rate so slow it's hard to tell if its even moving?
That's a perfectly good artistic justification to illustrate an edited scientific feat without any time lapse indicator, other than the observer's wiles and deduction.
Art is art. Art presented as science is fraud.
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BMF1976 ago
(((Siegel)))
puggy ago
You must trust the (((scientists))).
SparklingWiggle ago
Is it the first thing you look for now, too?
Guy_Justsome ago
Notice how the "science communicator" uses an aminated GIF of the departing Messenger space probe that gives the impression it's moving away at 4 Earth diameters in 4 seconds.
This is what junk science does: dishonestly cheats and misleads you with badly-presented true facts that someone else discovered with hard, honest work.
You have to notice that the Earth rotates a half revolution in those 4 seconds, so the space probe travelled that distance in 12 hours. Still fast, but not light-speed fast.
You have to do your own thinking to avoid being victimized by the Siegels of the world.
Soyboy69 ago
It's not dishonest to use a speed up a visualization for something so simple which spans the course of hours, would anyone give enough of a shit to watch a dot move across the screen for twelve hours at a rate so slow it's hard to tell if its even moving?
Guy_Justsome ago
That's a perfectly good artistic justification to illustrate an edited scientific feat without any time lapse indicator, other than the observer's wiles and deduction.
Art is art. Art presented as science is fraud.
no-hurry-no-pause ago
What did you not understand about "Every. Single. Time."?
It literally is every single time.
Paint them blue.