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is the details, I think. I'm here for the main adventure, sure, but I tend to love the small stuff in big games - the components on a rocket or a space suit, the callbacks to the tiniest pieces of real-world inspiration. I got very excited when I saw the Starfield logo in a video earlier this year, the logo against what looked like - my eyes aren't great - a white background of space with dark stars and nebulae scattered over it.
I think it would be impossible to be born in 1978, like I was, and not be a bit of a space nerd, to be honest. When I think back to the year of my birth, I always see it as being nestled between the launch of the Voyagers in '77, and the flaming return of Skylab in, I think, '79. What goes up eventually comes down and all that. Space was everywhere back then, just as everywhere again now, with daily updates from the James Webb telescope and all those rovers knocking about on Mars.
The first time I saw those I gasped. Because I thought: hey, I know what those are! Outer Wilds may take place in some other solar system - I sure hope it does, because in that solar system the sun explodes every 20 minutes or so and I just put some coffee on - but those pluses or Xes take me back to a moment in our own space race.
These plates are glass panels covered with little crosses, called fiducial markers, that create permanent shadows on the negative. These shadows in turn allow people to spot whether a photograph has been distorted in development, and - we're getting way over my head now - they can also be used when combining photographs to get a sense of the distance between objects in the images themselves. Don't ask me anything more about this because my head hurts.Phil Parker, via: https://history.
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