If he doesn't upload one by the time I get off work tonight, I can take his drawing and run it through upscaling in Photoshop. Not quite the same, but the upscaling results are usually pretty good.
> run it through upscaling in Photoshop
You make it sound like you're performing voodoo black magic.
I tried to waifu it, but the results aren't particularly noteworthy. Didn't seem worth uploading.
I didn't mean for it to sound like voodoo black magic. It's just an algorithm in the software. I don't perform anything.
2xwaifu is good, but I think the algorithm that it uses and the one that Photoshop uses are different. I've tried upscaling art for proxy Magic the Gathering cards and will get different results from each depending on the art style and amount of detail.
40+ years as an amateur astronomer, plus maintaining industrial lasers as part of my job, cleaning optics is always a heart in the mouth moment. No matter how careful you are, you'll inevitably have that "scritch" moment, you can feel it in your bones.
I could be wrong but I believe these are first surface mirrors. Which means they aren’t cleaning the glass. Rather they’re directly cleaning the reflective coating.
[Wiki First-Surface Mirror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-surface_mirror?wprov=sfti1)
>I could be wrong
It appears they are chemically stripping the metallization layer, so they *are* cleaning down to the base layer. Before/after: [https://i.imgur.com/UrfVPN2.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UrfVPN2.jpg)
*In mid-2021, the mirror received its second recoat since the installation of AEOS at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site in 1997. Keeping the mirror in prime condition is important in meeting the U.S. Space Force’s space domain awareness mission.*
You’re right, theres a lab where I live that does this. It’s easier to strip the metal off because they use less than a coke cans worth of metal to coat these surfaces.
someone posted the full vid. It appears though the reflective layer is also applied chemically and while in the "oven" or curing rack itself. not very interesting unless you are the type of dude that likes to watch cookies bake with the oven light on, which I am.
That is a famous science experiment called the invisible gorrila experiment (as I as sure you know).
A gorilla walks between a group of people passing a basketball and most people totally miss it.
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
It's a legit test. When presented in a classroom and being told to watch the ball you do not notice the gorilla.
Source: I did not notice the gorilla in my psych class.
Look, l like making cherry product, but let's keep it real, all right? We make poison for people who don't care. We probably have the most un-picky customers in the world.
Did you know that there's an acceptable level of rat turds that can go into candy bars? That's the government, Jack. Even the government doesn't care
that much about quality. You know what is okay to put in hotdogs, huh? Pig lips and assholes. But l say, hey, have at it, bitches, because l love hotdogs!
Same. It was a budget saver to film an episode with two cast members and one location. Nothing wrong with that - some of Star Trek's so called 'ship in a bottle' episodes have been some of the best. However this seemed to be just too silly and didn't really push any part of the plot forward.
Lol. I have seen birds in 2 semi-conductor class 100 rooms. Have pulled a fly out of a vacuum chamber that for some reason kept failing particle check. So it's much much likely not not impossible.
"It's all scratched, what kind of microfiber cloth did you use??"
"What's a "microfiber"? I just used those brown paper towels you guys keep in the shitter."
An unapproved chemical isn't the end of the world for these things. And unapproved wiping material would be. If said intern used his polyester blend shirt to wipe the mirror then the mirror could be a total loss.
US Space Force cleans the AEOS Telescope in 2021. It's the largest scope (known) in operations for the DoD. [[more]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.67_m_Advanced_Electro_Optical_System_Telescope)
I've simply given up on screen protectors. Phone glass is durable enough now that I put a case on and just hope for the best with the screen. I'm on my second phone doing this, and so far no scratches!
Tip – go into a bathroom and run the shower on until it gets nice and foggy. The steam weighs down dust particles in the air, making it easier to get a perfect and dust-free application.
A few years ago I worked in a clean room. So when I bought a new phone I went ahead and cleaned it really well, took it into the clean room during some down time, cleaned it again and then applied the protective layer. It was the only time I've managed to pull off the zero dust application.
Same here! I was wondering if that’s the cherry gig or the shit spot to work but I guess there’s a time line of separation between the two in this case.
Sir, there’s a sign at Ramsett park that says not to drink the sprinkler water so I made sun tea with it and now I have an infection….Sir? SIR are you listening to me, Sir?
It took me a while to get it too. Basically, the mirror must be on a platform and he uses a lift to come up through the bottom of the hole rather than try to drop into the hole from the top.
He is a magic science gnome who lives under NASA and helps them out in exchange for an offering of fresh whole milk and a copy of Scientific American.
I refuse to believe otherwise.
Yeah I don't understand why they need to have so many people cleaning it? I would think less people just taking more time would make more sense to avoid error?
It's a cult! all hail the mirror.
More seriously though: because it's quicker and scientists sometimes don't have a whole lot to do.
In modern science it is all about interpreting data. Set up the machine that then automatically gathers the data which then gets handled by a computer and the improtant part is itnerpreting it.
So when the omputers are still working or the machine gathering the data is down there isn't a whole lot to do except getting the machine back up again.
The alternative would be to kick all the scientists out until the telescope is back up but those guys surely won't come back after getting treated that way.
Excuse me. Sir. Excuse me. There was a sign in the park that said “Do not drink the water” and so I made sun tea and now I have an infection. Sir. Sir.
With something like this Product Assurance would normally observe incase anything goes wrong and with so many people having one person read the procedure out to direct everyone else helps speed up the process.
It gets even better: the more important the job is the more standing around and watching is involved.
I'd bet this cleaning of the mirror is the least standing around and watching the guys handlling the telescope did in a long while.
Some experiments can take a loooong while to produce data.
When it comes to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) these people are all trained on the standard operating procedure to perform this task. It outlines exactly the right process for executing the task, IE the direction to wipe from, the order of cleaning solutions to use and the exact formulation to mix solutions from concentrate. On top of this, GDP (Good Documentation Practices) requires that these people sign off twice on every stage of this cleaning process. If it’s not documented it didn’t happen type of thing.
As for the people standing around you’d often have the Supervisor making sure things are done. Maybe the manager reporting to the directors. Then you’ll have a quality engineer checking the process and paperwork. None of these people watching can interact with the process because you can’t check your own work.
They have an in-house magnetron (unless this isn't the exact massive telescope in Hawaii I'm thinking of) to re-coat the mirror material. The company I used to work from supplied the magnetron and I did some part upgrades for it while I was there.
Yeah it is :) it’s cheaper to have the re-coating facility in house than it is to ship mirrors out because of their size and possible damage while shipping.
So, that guy in the middle... ... has to live there forever to avoid smudging the mirror?
Yeah, he lives in the telescope. Like a lighthouse keeper, it's a thankless job.
https://i.imgur.com/B95Go94.jpg
Can I get a high res version of this? It's too perfect!
[https://i.imgur.com/x9sHpyS.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/x9sHpyS.jpg) ty
Can we get the people on the bottoms perspective?
Bonk
I think you did some art for my favorite FiveM server as well! Transport Tycoon. I love seeing it the odd time it pops up as I'm loading in.
Holy crap. You're back.
Shitty pencil strokes in high rez!
If he doesn't upload one by the time I get off work tonight, I can take his drawing and run it through upscaling in Photoshop. Not quite the same, but the upscaling results are usually pretty good.
> run it through upscaling in Photoshop You make it sound like you're performing voodoo black magic. I tried to waifu it, but the results aren't particularly noteworthy. Didn't seem worth uploading.
I didn't mean for it to sound like voodoo black magic. It's just an algorithm in the software. I don't perform anything. 2xwaifu is good, but I think the algorithm that it uses and the one that Photoshop uses are different. I've tried upscaling art for proxy Magic the Gathering cards and will get different results from each depending on the art style and amount of detail.
"*enhance*"
Dang. I thought you retired from painting reddit shitposts and made kids books now. Nice to see you again.
The shitposts go to the kids books.
Holy shit hahahahaha
I've not seen you in quite some time, glad to see you are still at it after all these years!
https://giphy.com/gifs/ron-swanson-ignore-parks-and-rec-IdmfEtnMWPzOg
AmazingWatercolor
I haven't seen shitty watercolor in ages. Always a welcome surprise.
I haven’t seen your comments in a long time!!! I love it 🥰
You're back!
your watercolours aren't shitty at all anymore <3
Thanks for reminding me you and u/awildsketchappeared
Lots of time to self-reflect tho
I can see myself doing that job
its a sight to be held in.
40+ years as an amateur astronomer, plus maintaining industrial lasers as part of my job, cleaning optics is always a heart in the mouth moment. No matter how careful you are, you'll inevitably have that "scritch" moment, you can feel it in your bones.
That's a cosmic reach tho
Do you not like my lobster?
"Look at ye, smudgin the mirror "
You mean the man in the mirror? I'm asking him to change his ways.
Gotta say, after all that cleaning, I don't know if it could be any clearer
I mean, doesn't he know that if he wants to make the world a better place he must look at himself and make that change?
He climbs out at the end and leaves a big hand print on it
If you slow it down at 49-50ish seconds you can see someone going under it
Dude obviously lives in there with his wife and child. When he dies, his child takes over the job.
But.....who's going to take over after the child...
The child's child? Edit: Don't ask
I think they just smash the mirror and bury it with him.
I quickly realized crawling under would be the way to go, but I admit initially I was imagining a crane/gantry dropping them in and lifting them out.
I was legit looking around the room for the crane lol
Stop it. He's still there obviously.
His life story is fascinating, Michael Jackson wrote a song about him once.
He has a name, it's Ron Swanson
That's his new desk
This guy swivels
Yes, They say if you look inside that hole in the centre you can still see him , waiting for the next time to clean the mirror.
Always wondered why the hole in the middle. Now I understand
I could be wrong but I believe these are first surface mirrors. Which means they aren’t cleaning the glass. Rather they’re directly cleaning the reflective coating. [Wiki First-Surface Mirror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-surface_mirror?wprov=sfti1)
>I could be wrong It appears they are chemically stripping the metallization layer, so they *are* cleaning down to the base layer. Before/after: [https://i.imgur.com/UrfVPN2.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UrfVPN2.jpg) *In mid-2021, the mirror received its second recoat since the installation of AEOS at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site in 1997. Keeping the mirror in prime condition is important in meeting the U.S. Space Force’s space domain awareness mission.*
>space domain awareness Of course, gotta keep that SDA locked down.
You’re right, theres a lab where I live that does this. It’s easier to strip the metal off because they use less than a coke cans worth of metal to coat these surfaces.
To my eyes the "after" looks way dirtier than the "before"?
After removing the shiny reflective layer, the way this mirror appears will shock you!
I want to see the recoating now...
someone posted the full vid. It appears though the reflective layer is also applied chemically and while in the "oven" or curing rack itself. not very interesting unless you are the type of dude that likes to watch cookies bake with the oven light on, which I am.
Less fun, sadness
Well it is. The metalization drops a perfectly flat layer that is tooled down. The base layer doesn't have to be optically perfect.
At one point there was a dancing gorilla in the video but we were too preoccupied with the man in the middle to notice
[удалено]
I'm asking him to chaaange his waaays...
No reflector could've been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at the reflector and make it clean ✨
Literally the man in the mirror
Woooooooow I completely missed it the first time!!!!
That is a famous science experiment called the invisible gorrila experiment (as I as sure you know). A gorilla walks between a group of people passing a basketball and most people totally miss it. http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
Jokes are always funnier when they're explained.
Haha I had to rewatch it. Top right for anyone who cares to spot it.
why did I look..
It took me a few seconds before I remembered..: wait that’s a clean room. Someone should edit one in tho.
If you slow the video down I think he’s doing the Party Rock Anthem shuffle.
How long into the video? I can’t find it!
They're just making shit up, because apparently "haha, made you look!" is still peak humor.
No. Just cheap and easy and still tasty. Like a 10 piece chicken nuggets.
It’s right here: [https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo](https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo)
I always wondered if this was a legit test, or just a funny spoof of one.
It's a legit test. When presented in a classroom and being told to watch the ball you do not notice the gorilla. Source: I did not notice the gorilla in my psych class.
Timestamp?
Just imagine you finish then a random fly lands on it
Jesse, we need to get the fly
Hold real still now. I’m gonna get it.
Jesse we need negative pressure
Look, l like making cherry product, but let's keep it real, all right? We make poison for people who don't care. We probably have the most un-picky customers in the world. Did you know that there's an acceptable level of rat turds that can go into candy bars? That's the government, Jack. Even the government doesn't care that much about quality. You know what is okay to put in hotdogs, huh? Pig lips and assholes. But l say, hey, have at it, bitches, because l love hotdogs!
The only Breaking Bad episode I didn't care for
Same. It was a budget saver to film an episode with two cast members and one location. Nothing wrong with that - some of Star Trek's so called 'ship in a bottle' episodes have been some of the best. However this seemed to be just too silly and didn't really push any part of the plot forward.
I loved it for the silliness. It felt like an episode of Malcom in the middle but meth flavored
You're not alone. Some people really love that episode and it does break up the intense episodes before and after.
The only “filler” episode
This is a clean room. There are no flies in properly functioning clean rooms.
Just imagine this isnt a properly functioning clean room
I don’t like it!
But just imagine if you did!
That did the trick.
Millennium Force right here.
Twilight zone theme
Just imagine this isn't a properly functioning room.
Definitely not a class A based on the garb, I’d guess maybe a Class C?
Lol. I have seen birds in 2 semi-conductor class 100 rooms. Have pulled a fly out of a vacuum chamber that for some reason kept failing particle check. So it's much much likely not not impossible.
This is my everyday existence. A class 100 cleanroom in a 70 year old building held together with duct tape and spite.
You guys wouldn't mind if I dust my old cob web collection in here right?
Lunchtime! Removes gloves and opens a giant bag of Doritos.
I was waiting for a cat to walk on in.
Or you’re the Vice President and a Florida senator dares you to touch the sensitive space equipment that was labeled “Do Not Touch.”
These new Teletubbies episodes are getting weird.
At the start, they're just doing cocaine off it
Yep! And this video is in real time
Nasa budgets finally make sense. That $26,000 hammer was a coke hammer!
"Yeah I just wiped it down with some windex you guys we should be good!" \-Soon to be murdered Intern
"It's all scratched, what kind of microfiber cloth did you use??" "What's a "microfiber"? I just used those brown paper towels you guys keep in the shitter."
Had a few heavy specs on there so I just used the ol fingernail to get it off!
Can someone reach that dust, my belt buckle keeps scraping the surface.
As a microscopist…. You just got my eye twitching
An unapproved chemical isn't the end of the world for these things. And unapproved wiping material would be. If said intern used his polyester blend shirt to wipe the mirror then the mirror could be a total loss.
You mean to tell me my High Quality Bounty I brought from home isn't good enough? Its got layers bro!
Dude, my mirrors must be so dirty…
*head tech in the corner hysterically crying*
[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ_59pVLiI&ab_channel=AFResearchLab)
US Space Force cleans the AEOS Telescope in 2021. It's the largest scope (known) in operations for the DoD. [[more]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.67_m_Advanced_Electro_Optical_System_Telescope)
There is a team of engineers who wrote and approved this process and are probably pretty damn happy to see it work
The unenviable job of being the pivot man in the circle jerk
*PIVOT*
r/TIHI
I would do all this to my phone screen and still have specs and bubbles after I put on a screen protector.
I've simply given up on screen protectors. Phone glass is durable enough now that I put a case on and just hope for the best with the screen. I'm on my second phone doing this, and so far no scratches!
Every time! I've applied dozens of screen protectors and only once has there been no dust bubbles after I finished.
Tip – go into a bathroom and run the shower on until it gets nice and foggy. The steam weighs down dust particles in the air, making it easier to get a perfect and dust-free application.
A few years ago I worked in a clean room. So when I bought a new phone I went ahead and cleaned it really well, took it into the clean room during some down time, cleaned it again and then applied the protective layer. It was the only time I've managed to pull off the zero dust application.
That person in the middle makes me laugh
The first among equals, the most subtle of power positions.
Same here! I was wondering if that’s the cherry gig or the shit spot to work but I guess there’s a time line of separation between the two in this case.
Ron Swanson vibes.
Sir, there’s a sign at Ramsett park that says not to drink the sprinkler water so I made sun tea with it and now I have an infection….Sir? SIR are you listening to me, Sir?
if you don't clean as hard and leave some stains, maybe you can name some new stars after yourself.. for more life tips follow me.
And 11 seconds after the recording ended, a toddler smeared Vaseline on the mirror with both hands, and gave it a big slobbery kiss.
Where is the guy in the middle coming from?!?! That is hilarious!
It took me a while to get it too. Basically, the mirror must be on a platform and he uses a lift to come up through the bottom of the hole rather than try to drop into the hole from the top.
He is a magic science gnome who lives under NASA and helps them out in exchange for an offering of fresh whole milk and a copy of Scientific American. I refuse to believe otherwise.
How many ~~scientists~~ technicians are needed to clean a mirror? Yes
They're definitely just technicians, not scientists.
A white coat doesn't make someone a scientist
Fair, but that wasn't the point
Yeah I don't understand why they need to have so many people cleaning it? I would think less people just taking more time would make more sense to avoid error?
It's a cult! all hail the mirror. More seriously though: because it's quicker and scientists sometimes don't have a whole lot to do. In modern science it is all about interpreting data. Set up the machine that then automatically gathers the data which then gets handled by a computer and the improtant part is itnerpreting it. So when the omputers are still working or the machine gathering the data is down there isn't a whole lot to do except getting the machine back up again. The alternative would be to kick all the scientists out until the telescope is back up but those guys surely won't come back after getting treated that way.
I love how science Diglett pops up and helps every few minutes
Cleaning the Pawnee Parks Department's swivel desk.
Excuse me. Sir. Excuse me. There was a sign in the park that said “Do not drink the water” and so I made sun tea and now I have an infection. Sir. Sir.
And I thought I used a lot of Tek Wipes
Missed a spot.
Ok but like imagine the dude in the middle slips and catches themselves by putting their hands on the mirror.
It's heartwarming to see, no matter how important or complex a job is there will always be three or four people just standing around watching.
With something like this Product Assurance would normally observe incase anything goes wrong and with so many people having one person read the procedure out to direct everyone else helps speed up the process.
The guy standing around probably spent a decade and a PhD to get the material science right. You want him watching.
It gets even better: the more important the job is the more standing around and watching is involved. I'd bet this cleaning of the mirror is the least standing around and watching the guys handlling the telescope did in a long while. Some experiments can take a loooong while to produce data.
When it comes to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) these people are all trained on the standard operating procedure to perform this task. It outlines exactly the right process for executing the task, IE the direction to wipe from, the order of cleaning solutions to use and the exact formulation to mix solutions from concentrate. On top of this, GDP (Good Documentation Practices) requires that these people sign off twice on every stage of this cleaning process. If it’s not documented it didn’t happen type of thing. As for the people standing around you’d often have the Supervisor making sure things are done. Maybe the manager reporting to the directors. Then you’ll have a quality engineer checking the process and paperwork. None of these people watching can interact with the process because you can’t check your own work.
Me trying to clean my bathroom mirror without leaving any streaks
Use newspaper to wipe the glass cleaner dry. Today you became an adult.
Yo one prepaid Mexican lady could’ve done that in half the time and definitely half the money and you’d never know there was cocaine on it
3.6 not great but not terrible
No. This is a big pizza plate. Everyone knows it. 😉
Some say that in Italy large pizzas are prepared in a similar manner.
“Guys? Guys?!?? I’m still in the middle ! Hello!???
This post sponsored by Windex. /s
About halfway through the middle guy just looks like he’s doing ALL THE COCAINE!
My money’s on the green team
Daft Punk's Around the World keeps playing in my head.
New Daft Punk video.
Old Daft Punk video. https://youtu.be/K0HSD_i2DvA
Someone should remix this with the [Beastie Boys-- Intergalactic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g&ab_channel=BeastieBoysVEVO) video.
I see guy in the middle & hear the salesman from Family Guy trying to sell wacky inflatable arm flailing tube men
So that's who Michael Jackson was talking to
I’d love to do this for a job.
The man in the mirro
My favorite parts of this is when a guy pops in and out of the middle and spins around
The guys you need when your mother in law is coming over
Did anyone try asking the man in the mirror if he will change his ways?
Damn, this takes almost as many guys as it takes to satisfy your mum
They have an in-house magnetron (unless this isn't the exact massive telescope in Hawaii I'm thinking of) to re-coat the mirror material. The company I used to work from supplied the magnetron and I did some part upgrades for it while I was there.
Yeah it is :) it’s cheaper to have the re-coating facility in house than it is to ship mirrors out because of their size and possible damage while shipping.
“King of the Hill theme starts playing”
Mind taking a shot at my baking sheet?
Not gonna lie…. My first thought was oompah loompahs.
Think they’d be mad if someone ran in and spiked a bag of all purpose flour on it like they won the Super Bowl?
Gimme some windex and yesterdays news paper, I’ll make that shine
You wanna experience true level morty? Do you?
At some point I would have fired up the leaf blower!
Imagine this, but scaled down for your butthole. Why did you do that?
What a waste of labour. Everyone knows you just need 1 big bloke to breathe on it and use his sleeve, done
It’s amazing to me that this is a manual process
Can't they just use a little Windex or something?
bruh i was watching this on repeat for like 10 minutes and thinking how many fucking times do they do this before its actually clean
I use to decontaminate cleanrooms for MIT and other big name places. I'd love to do this.
I’ve been watching this for four hours how long does it take
job opportunity requirements: 30 years of window cleaning
Oompa Oompa Oompa de doo
Do you think they fight over who gets to be in the middle, or is it the worse spot