http://sandiegospace.org/2009/06/24/intangibles/ Exploring Space from the Ground Up! Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://sandiegospace.org/2009/06/24/intangibles/comment-page-1/#comment-23740 Joel Raupe Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:55:55 +0000 http://sandiegospace.org/?p=776#comment-23740 Not an insignificant observation. Just sorting through the photographs, especially those from a transitory event such as fly-by, should be the back-up for a human eye, augmented or otherwise, by optics, and a brain with some conscious backdrop of context (even if imaginary) to sort the interesting from the uninteresting. On ISS every scene on Earth is a one of a kind fly-by event. Consider the discovery of eruptions on Io, originally perceived after the fact, much later in anticipation. What have we missed without this quick ability to pick the straight stick out of a pile of crooked ones? The ideal is both human and machine. Not an insignificant observation. Just sorting through the photographs, especially those from a transitory event such as fly-by, should be the back-up for a human eye, augmented or otherwise, by optics, and a brain with some conscious backdrop of context (even if imaginary) to sort the interesting from the uninteresting. On ISS every scene on Earth is a one of a kind fly-by event. Consider the discovery of eruptions on Io, originally perceived after the fact, much later in anticipation. What have we missed without this quick ability to pick the straight stick out of a pile of crooked ones? The ideal is both human and machine.

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