Something very nefarious is happening with these data centers. No one needs a 62-square-mile surveillance center to spy on us and who knows what else. Billionaires, tech companies, and investment firms want to steal people's homes and farms, destroy wildlife and insects, overload power grids, and contaminate our water while causing shortages and restrictions. The sheer volume of purified water they use is unimaginable, and most people have no idea. There is zero reason for any state to have 200 centers. They are forcing our electric and water bills to astronomical levels. Shut them down! We want to protect our land, water, environment, people, and wildlife. Where are the studies on the long-term effects of the noise, water contamination, and harm to the public and wildlife?
It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves
This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
Paparazzi stalking lawmakers ruining the country > paparazzi stalking celebrities minding their business
We’ve been utilizing this profession incorrectly