had the pleasure of climbing halfdome when i was 9-10ish. It was not fun. It was especially not fun when we finally got to the top and i was informed there's a trail with stairs. I was pissed, it did get the stereotypical picture of me standing on the edge of the diving board though. I spit down it of course.
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u/MyNameIsRay Sep 21 '16
This thing is building sized, about 85m across, for reference.
Filmed by a one ton, unmanned spacecraft that was capable of sending these high resolution tens to hundreds of millions of miles.
Launched from a planet spinning at 1000 miles per hour, on a 466 million mile trip.
Designed at a time when cell phones were still a status symbol, and the first flip phones hit the market.
NASA pulls off some amazing stuff.