Talk:1229: Screensaver - Revision history

172.70.230.196 at 04:13, 15 March 2023

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199.27.133.44 at 18:39, 14 January 2016

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108.162.219.223 at 18:21, 7 January 2014

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Waldir: update category name

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update category name

Chtz at 14:49, 19 July 2013

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98.20.249.108 at 14:17, 19 July 2013

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Chtz at 14:39, 15 July 2013

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Xyz at 14:35, 15 July 2013

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72.68.9.56 at 05:30, 8 July 2013

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62.206.211.29 at 06:51, 27 June 2013

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	I think we need to really look in to the fact that the last image had some sort of hidden message on the static [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.44\|199.27.133.44]] 18:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)		I think we need to really look in to the fact that the last image had some sort of hidden message on the static [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.44\|199.27.133.44]] 18:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
		+	@199.27.133.44 Possibly “Signal lost”?

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	Supernova? Supermoon? Monitor crashed? A signal in the noise? No, No, No and Apophenia. You are viewing the Microsoft Starfield screensaver, apparently flying through a dense field of stars at immense speed. In the screensaver, the idea of colliding with a star is not modeled. In this comic, it is. The star that we are heading towards appears to get larger and larger, and the presence of sunspots makes it clear what we are seeing, and that the star is not itself changing. The final panel depicts what would appear if the screensaver image was not computer-generated, but was actually being transmitted by a camera. When the ship carrying the camera hits the star, the transmission of video will most likely end, hence 'signal lost'. Now, was that so hard? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 18:21, 7 January 2014 (UTC)		Supernova? Supermoon? Monitor crashed? A signal in the noise? No, No, No and Apophenia. You are viewing the Microsoft Starfield screensaver, apparently flying through a dense field of stars at immense speed. In the screensaver, the idea of colliding with a star is not modeled. In this comic, it is. The star that we are heading towards appears to get larger and larger, and the presence of sunspots makes it clear what we are seeing, and that the star is not itself changing. The final panel depicts what would appear if the screensaver image was not computer-generated, but was actually being transmitted by a camera. When the ship carrying the camera hits the star, the transmission of video will most likely end, hence 'signal lost'. Now, was that so hard? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 18:21, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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		+	I think we need to really look in to the fact that the last image had some sort of hidden message on the static [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.44\|199.27.133.44]] 18:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

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	::Makes you feel old, doesn't it? [[Special:Contributions/98.20.249.108\|98.20.249.108]] 14:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)		::Makes you feel old, doesn't it? [[Special:Contributions/98.20.249.108\|98.20.249.108]] 14:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
	:::The fact that [[891: Movie Ages\|this comic]] came out more than two years ago, makes me feel old. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:49, 19 July 2013 (UTC)		:::The fact that [[891: Movie Ages\|this comic]] came out more than two years ago, makes me feel old. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:49, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Supernova? Supermoon? Monitor crashed? A signal in the noise? No, No, No and Apophenia. You are viewing the Microsoft Starfield screensaver, apparently flying through a dense field of stars at immense speed. In the screensaver, the idea of colliding with a star is not modeled. In this comic, it is. The star that we are heading towards appears to get larger and larger, and the presence of sunspots makes it clear what we are seeing, and that the star is not itself changing. The final panel depicts what would appear if the screensaver image was not computer-generated, but was actually being transmitted by a camera. When the ship carrying the camera hits the star, the transmission of video will most likely end, hence 'signal lost'. Now, was that so hard? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 18:21, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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 :Thanks for your contribution. You did forget to add the comic at the [List of all comics] and the redirect for the title was missing. I've done this right now.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 10:18, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
-:Yeah, thanks a lot! Everything is always perfectible <small>(as is my rewording of your explanation)</small>, but your explanation was quite complete on the first shot, and that's the main added value here. So you got the essentials right [[File:Face-smile.svg|18px]] (and you're welcome to do it again on new comics or [[:Category:Incomplete articles|incomplete ones]]). - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 12:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
+:Yeah, thanks a lot! Everything is always perfectible <small>(as is my rewording of your explanation)</small>, but your explanation was quite complete on the first shot, and that's the main added value here. So you got the essentials right [[File:Face-smile.svg|18px]] (and you're welcome to do it again on new comics or [[:Category:Incomplete explanations|incomplete ones]]). - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 12:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 I can't stop thinking that the last panel is not "noise" but a binary coded message/file. It seems just enough compressed/unsharp to make it possible to read out every pixel as a bit, and perhaps there is some kind of "datafile" with error correction? Anybody tought about that? --[[Special:Contributions/217.253.152.222|217.253.152.222]] 07:22, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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	:Please check your calender. The current year is 2013, which makes 1993 20 years ago. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)		:Please check your calender. The current year is 2013, which makes 1993 20 years ago. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
	::Makes you feel old, doesn't it? [[Special:Contributions/98.20.249.108\|98.20.249.108]] 14:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)		::Makes you feel old, doesn't it? [[Special:Contributions/98.20.249.108\|98.20.249.108]] 14:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
		+	:::The fact that [[891: Movie Ages\|this comic]] came out more than two years ago, makes me feel old. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:49, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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	Twenty years? That would mean he starting staring at the screen in the 1980s. I would really doubt the starfield screensaver existed then. [[User:Xyz\|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz\|talk]]) 14:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)		Twenty years? That would mean he starting staring at the screen in the 1980s. I would really doubt the starfield screensaver existed then. [[User:Xyz\|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz\|talk]]) 14:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
	:Please check your calender. The current year is 2013, which makes 1993 20 years ago. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)		:Please check your calender. The current year is 2013, which makes 1993 20 years ago. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
		+	::Makes you feel old, doesn't it? [[Special:Contributions/98.20.249.108\|98.20.249.108]] 14:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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	Twenty years? That would mean he starting staring at the screen in the 1980s. I would really doubt the starfield screensaver existed then. [[User:Xyz\|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz\|talk]]) 14:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)		Twenty years? That would mean he starting staring at the screen in the 1980s. I would really doubt the starfield screensaver existed then. [[User:Xyz\|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz\|talk]]) 14:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
		+	:Please check your calender. The current year is 2013, which makes 1993 20 years ago. --[[User:Chtz\|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz\|talk]]) 14:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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	Hi there, I would guess instead of the star hitting, the monitor just crashed and that's why the signal was lost. Regards, Roy. [[Special:Contributions/62.206.211.29\|62.206.211.29]] 06:51, 27 June 2013 (UTC)		Hi there, I would guess instead of the star hitting, the monitor just crashed and that's why the signal was lost. Regards, Roy. [[Special:Contributions/62.206.211.29\|62.206.211.29]] 06:51, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Twenty years? That would mean he starting staring at the screen in the 1980s. I would really doubt the starfield screensaver existed then. [[User:Xyz\|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz\|talk]]) 14:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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	Why StarTrek? In my experience, in StarTrek the stars are lines instead of dots, therefore the look is different. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 08:43, 24 June 2013 (UTC)		Why StarTrek? In my experience, in StarTrek the stars are lines instead of dots, therefore the look is different. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 08:43, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
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		+	The Buck Rogers TV series of the late 70s/early 80s had a star field zoom for the closing credits -- the thing about it was that the "stars" would actually hit the screen and get stuck there, rendering it more of a zooming-through-a-snow-storm effect than a naive-traveling-through-space effect. It always bothered me at the time as showing how cheap the show was. I think later I actually came to find the effect rather pretty...

	It's probably quite unlikely to collide with a star like that, wouldn't it be much more likely to pass near enough to enter an orbit?--[[Special:Contributions/62.20.90.206\|62.20.90.206]] 14:25, 24 June 2013 (UTC)		It's probably quite unlikely to collide with a star like that, wouldn't it be much more likely to pass near enough to enter an orbit?--[[Special:Contributions/62.20.90.206\|62.20.90.206]] 14:25, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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	:Oh, that SUPERMOON... It's just a gap filler for the press at science sections (even NASA did), but nobody would recognize when looking at the sky. The Moon is always "big" when it's close to the horizon, but this is just a human imagination. My 13% cents. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:42, 25 June 2013 (UTC)		:Oh, that SUPERMOON... It's just a gap filler for the press at science sections (even NASA did), but nobody would recognize when looking at the sky. The Moon is always "big" when it's close to the horizon, but this is just a human imagination. My 13% cents. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:42, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Hi there, I would guess instead of the star hitting, the monitor just crashed and that's why the signal was lost. Regards, Roy. [[Special:Contributions/62.206.211.29\|62.206.211.29]] 06:51, 27 June 2013 (UTC)