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An Astronaut Filmed an ‘Earthset’ With His Phone, Proving Humans Really Did Go to Space

In an AI-driven era, people in a spaceship snuck behind the moon to capture smartphone images better than anything AI could dream up.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the rise of AI-generated slop videos showing impossibly crisp footage of meteorites hitting the Moon that, we are being asked to believe, was impossibly shot on a modern smartphone while standing on the Earth’s solid ground. Then along comes Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, casually filming something real and far more impressive: Earth, on which all of us are at the time of recording, slowly disappearing behind the Moon… and all captured on an actual iPhone.

Only one chance in this lifetime…Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets........

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