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The Palomar Lights

https://comics.phillyharper.com/
17•tardismechanic•2d ago

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showerst•41m ago
There's a wikipedia page with a few more details / rebuttals from various sources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aligned,_Multiple-transient_Ev...
garciansmith•20m ago
An infinitely better source than the OP "article," which is just an AI-slop comic.
itsthecourier•32m ago
so it seems something was orbiting before satellites and for some reason very closely to atomic bomb test dates
dylan604•1m ago
Maybe the observers recognized that the ape men had figured out how to harness the power of the atom and that it was only a matter of a short amount of time before they ruined the experiment and decided to leave
egypturnash•10m ago
I can't decide if this is AI imagery or not and I hate this world.

The absolute amateur hour choices going on in the lettering is tipping me towards AI, this is lettering by someone who thinks they know what "a comic" looks like and used "comic book" fonts but has zero idea of how word balloons actually work. Piss-poor internal margins, balloon tails that point nowhere near their supposed speaker, balloons that are weird-ass hybrids of captions and dialogue that have a tiny little vestigial tail that points nowhere in particular, captions and balloons crammed into odd corners of the panels with no concept of overall compositional flow.

Oh and now that I look closer at some panels, yeah, it's AI.

As always when someone shits in my eyes with a bunch of AI imagery, I'm just gonna assume the script is also the result of pointing one slop machine or another at the Wikipedia article and telling it to generate text rather than any sort of human understanding and summarizing going on here. I hate this fucking future.

alwa•2m ago
I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included:

> Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for seven years.

> Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes.

> No university, no lab, no funding. He pulled down the dataset, wrote his own code from scratch, and ran every test independently.

> one telescope, one mountain, one drawer of plates.

> Different telescope. Different continent. Same signature.

> Signed and numbered. Just 150 copies. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

> […]the wider corpus this comic was built from. The science holds because the receipts hold.

> The Palomar Lights — a story told in data, glass, and light.

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29•asenna•1h ago•11 comments

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1308•tedsanders•20h ago•950 comments

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445•speckx•2h ago•316 comments

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187•ssiddharth•1h ago•102 comments

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969•Timofeibu•1d ago•416 comments

The Palomar Lights

https://comics.phillyharper.com/
18•tardismechanic•2d ago•6 comments

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39•rbanffy•5h ago•1 comments

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4•pvtmert•2d ago•2 comments

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236•bambax•15h ago•41 comments

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156•azhenley•13h ago•54 comments

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312•rglover•16h ago•72 comments

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279•cdrnsf•2h ago•330 comments

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73•ziggy42•2d ago•27 comments