To any of my friends and followers with dogs/ service dogs, if you go non verbal sometimes like I do, or if you go to busy areas a lot with a lot of noise, dogs learn hand commands super fast if you associate it to an already known command and can be taught right along side new commands. I have talked to so many people that didn’t know that hand commands were a thing they could use, and even met a few people that didn’t even realize they were already giving hand commands. My dogs learned hand commands before voice commands because it was easier for me, and it comes in handy in public because it calls your dog’s attention and allows them to understand you if there are a lot of other people or noises around that might make it hard to hear, and are helpful in the event of going non verbal.
Okay, this picture is HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE, and it’s amazing.
It’s surreal to see a world without* an atmosphere and therefore a deep black sky. And before you claim it’s fake because there aren’t any stars, that’s because camera exposure to see the surface is too short.
*technically the moon has an atmosphere, but it’s around 10-100 trillionth of ours^
^assuming you’re reading this from Earth, and this isn’t being read in the year 2050 on a Mars colony
I was zoomed in on it, trying to figure out why it was making me vaguely uncomfortable and why my mind kept insisting this was fake, and I realized the problem I was having was that I was expecting atmospheric perspective to fade the contrast on the farther objects and make the horizon hazy, but….. no atmosphere.
i… am …disturbed
The preceding comment is interesting because it highlights one of the ways that our perception of reality can be culturally influenced.
You know how sometimes, when you’re watching a movie with computer-generated special effects, you can just tell whether certain scenes are CGI, even though you can’t put your finger on exactly why?
Well, one of the things your brain is picking up on to make that determination is missing or incorrectly simulated atmospheric haze; this is highly characteristic of cheap CGI because atmospheric haze is a huge pain in the ass to correctly calculate - most low-budget productions either omit it entirely, or else fake it with simple linear distance fog.
That’s why photos of the Lunar surface and objects in outer space tend to look fake to modern audiences: we’ve been unconsciously conditioned to associate wonky atmospheric haze with bad CGI.
@sixpenceee Hi there, I just wanted to share this with you. About seven years ago in March my grandmother died. My mom and I were very close to her and loved her very very much. After her death she lingered around us, my parents and I believe that she was still attached to our pug, because she was the one who bred and gave the dog to us. She would joke with us by knocking over shampoo bottles in the bathroom and turning my parents tv on in the middle of the night. Along with these things I could feel her presence, especially considering I was just a child.
Last year in March, a few days after the anniversary of her death, we got this message from an unidentified number, I replied (I meant to type ‘who is this’ but it was on a flip phone and I’m use to smartphones lol) and we never got another message from this number. My grandmother’s name was Rhonda, and I believe to this day that she had finally moved on and she was letting us know.
