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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethereal patterns not visible to the human eye.

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TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethereal patterns not visible to the human eye.

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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A photography student sent film into space. I'm stunned at the results
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Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation
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  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    Back button hijack bullshit.

    Here are the pictures.

  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Here are the pics.

    Helios I

    Helios II and III Preview?

    Ripped the second image from Instagram and reuploaded to Lemmy

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      Wow, the stock Windows Vista wallpaper!

    • Aralakh@lemmy.ca
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      Our hero, thank you for your service! o7

    • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
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      Anyone who’s ever used a Polaroid would recognize these photo patterns

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    I’m very skeptical of this. High energy radiation on photographic film generally causes a speckle pattern, where each individual particle that hits the film exposes a small spot. The distribution of speckles should also be relatively uniform across the image. This looks more like a small amount of light made it through the packaging and caused patterns as the film spun around.

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      Magnetic field lines could do something similar, but did it go through a storm weather or something then? Or something aurora like

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    hmmmm i doubt thats cosmic rays, seams more like extreme temperature and low presure did something to the films chemistry

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      Agreed. I’d think cosmic rays would leave linear marks since they are like atomic bullets.

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      spent 2 months in Project X, testing different photographic emulsions under extreme radiation—from hospital X-rays—to determine which would hold up best

      What you’re looking at is an amalgamation of muons, formed millions of light year away from black holes, and UVC radiation usually filtered out by the ozone layer, but now etched onto this canvas and potentially electrical discharge due to the static build up between the dark bad and the film

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        UVC? So the film did get direct exposure? Because UVC should usualy not penetrate thru film can material.

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          It does just look like a light leak to me.

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    Thanks OP cute read. Original article from the student here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c152gpqxkv0o …unfortunately it seems like the pics are posted on insta.

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      Getting real tired of seeing cool art stuff and then they bury the leer with “check out the whole thing on twitter/insta/reddit” and if you bring up the issues with those platforms everyone trips over themselves to justify why their use of the neonazi-billionaire-pedo owned sites is justified…

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        install the app to see…

      • arsCynic@piefed.social
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        Thank you, thank you, thank you.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        Hear hear

      • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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        Our content

    • RegularJoe@lemmy.worldOP
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      Thanks for the additional info!

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    Seems like everybody is trying Too hard to make something out of nothing. Unless this was a repeatable result where the same coordinates in the sky at the exact altitudes produce the exact repeatable pattern, this is the equivalent on random spill/splash from liquids onto a piece of paper that was then dried. There are plenty of stuff up there besides cosmic rays that will interact with film.

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      This was not a physics experiment, this was an art project.

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        Too bad the TIL statement makes the art project be more than what is.

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      I don’t know if I trust the photography student to explain the film’s deterioration using physics terms

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    They did it during daylight so there are no black holes involved. The stuff is coming from the sun. Anyway, still funny pictures

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    I would have expected static.

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    using a helium balloon

    Your own source stated that it was hot air.

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      Fixed it. Sorry.

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      The second paragraph of that source states it was a helium balloon. Also, the BBC article only describes it as helium.

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    Space is, like, cool.

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      Very, very cool.

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