[HN Gopher] Science Images of 2022
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Science Images of 2022
Author : belter
Score : 105 points
Date : 2022-12-16 10:26 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nature.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
| rozab wrote:
| Most of these images are mercilessly cropped to the screen size
| of whatever device you happen to be viewing it on. On mobile I
| could only see less than a quarter of some of the landscapes.
| Even on desktop, I had to mess around with the shape of my
| browser window to see the full images.
|
| It endlessly frustrates me that web designers have decided that
| anything going on outside the very center of an image doesn't
| matter.
| enriquto wrote:
| Moreover, there is no easy way to download and see the whole
| image once you notice this problem. Even if you try to look at
| the page source, the reference to the image is extremely
| obfuscated (on purpose?).
| b4je7d7wb wrote:
| I don't think it's on purpose. It's probably just because of
| the overengineered parallax effects.
| jdthedisciple wrote:
| But hey it looks super fancy, the scrolling and all!
|
| /s
| regularjack wrote:
| Some commenters here dislike the scrolling effects on the site. I
| usually also can't stand sites that mess with scroll, but here I
| found it to be tastefully done. I think it added to the
| experience, and didn't get in the way.
| samhuk wrote:
| Couple points:
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| * I really like all of the. As just "photographs", they seem all
| very pretty, detailed, some even awe-inspiring, to me.
|
| * Is it just me (I'm not in any way a photography guy), or are so
| many of these photos extremely over-edited with extra color to
| make them more appealing? EDIT: The visible-light photos
|
| * Veritasium did an amazing video on how the black hole image was
| made. It honestly made radio astronomy "click" for me, finally
| after many years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bSDnuIPbo
|
| * Scrolling through that gave off a strong ex-Apple web developer
| smell. Why add such complex scrolling behavior where it isn't
| necessary?
|
| * I appreciate the message and everything, and it's a _fantastic_
| and indeed hypnotic image, but what does the 2022 Russian
| invasion of Ukraine have anything, in particular, to do with
| science? Yes some Ukrainian scientists have been displaced. Some
| scientific institutions and faculties too, but the image isn 't
| even about that. Feels a bit like they could have done their
| "send our best regards" bit in a better way, IMHO. Am I being a
| bit overly pedantic/negative here? I don't know...
| poszlem wrote:
| I agree with almost all the points, especially the last one.
| The first half of the gallery is mind blowing and really
| focused. The second half is as if someone decided that "we
| cannot just show photos from STEM fields, we need to add some
| human touch of social sciences" (which, having worked for a
| major scientific publisher in the past, I am will to bet was
| exactly what has happened).
|
| Re. them being over-edited - I wonder if the reason for that is
| because many of those would not have any colours in them if it
| wasn't for the editing (because they were taken using X-rays
| for example).
| samhuk wrote:
| Ah, I meant the visible-light photos. Edited comment :)
|
| And yes, I am a bit surprised by some of the photos,
| particularly towards the end. I've never been involved in the
| science publishing scene, so to me it just looks...strange.
| mistermann wrote:
| > but what does the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine have
| anything, in particular, to do with science?
|
| Probably not what the author had in mind, but two reasons I can
| think of off the top of my head:
|
| - science has played a pivotal role in the development of the
| various weapons humans use to kill each other
|
| - had humanity decided to invest more of its resources in "the
| humanities" instead of the hard sciences, perhaps we wouldn't
| still be behaving like this in 2022, or at least have higher
| quality arguments about such matters
| bearmode wrote:
| >Yes some Ukrainian scientists have been displaced. Some
| scientific institutions and faculties too, but the image isn't
| even about that. Feels a bit like they could have done their
| "send our best regards" bit in a better way, IMHO. Am I being a
| bit overly pedantic/negative here? I don't know...
|
| Not to mention how ignored so many other human tragedies that
| happened away from the West have been.
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