Repeat to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax."

February 10, 2017 6:29 PM

Could the MST3K Logo Fit on the Moon?
posted by Chrysostom (13 comments total)

At last science used for good.
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:07 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

I know I should really just relax.

But I also always envisioned that the view of the moon was from the Satellite of Love so who cares about those earthling's vision.

In other science I can tell you that the entire logo does not fit on a small shoulder tattoo and must read "MST 3000" instead.
posted by Crystalinne at 7:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]

What, next to the "CHA"?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 7:21 PM on February 10, 2017 [24 favorites]

I'm thinking since the goal is to legibly inscribe a rectangular logo on a massive sphere, it wouldn't be this straightforward... you'd have to use a ton of extra nukes to make it kind of an hourglass shape that's probably at least half again as large as a plain rectangle. Call me.
posted by SharkParty at 7:25 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

I wanna know how that guy is writing on the screen. Because a) he's probably not actually writing on a surface, which is pretty cool, and b) either he's ridiculously ambidextrous or they've flipped the image left-right.
posted by figurant at 12:26 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

If he was ambidextrous then surely he wouldn't be writing the letters with the hand that would wipe out the painstaking 1225* dots as he went?

*I commend him for sticking with that very silly method but I kinda wish he added 1775 more dots and stuck the 35 x 35 dot frame in it.
posted by iamkimiam at 1:36 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

> What, next to the "CHA"?

MYS
posted by ardgedee at 5:04 AM on February 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

I wanna know how that guy is writing on the screen. Because a) he's probably not actually writing on a surface, which is pretty cool, and b) either he's ridiculously ambidextrous or they've flipped the image left-right.

Transparent screen between him and camera + markers is a very common thing, + screen flip unless he's proficient in writing backwards.
posted by FatherDagon at 6:56 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

how to make a lightboard recording setup yourself for only 10k (includes recording equipment)
posted by umrain at 8:35 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

Like some of that elongated street lettering that only looks right from an angle, the lettering at the edges of the sphere would look super distorted from any angle that's not looking straight at it from our tidally-locked perspective.
posted by straight at 9:49 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

"Would the logo fit on the moon?"

Yes, why wouldn't it? It's not a fixed size. Next question!
posted by JHarris at 12:53 PM on February 11, 2017

ctrl-f "CHA"

You did not disappoint.
posted by ShutterBun at 3:44 AM on February 12, 2017

"I wonder if there's beer on the s̶u̶n̶ moon?"
posted by Capricorn13 at 11:21 AM on February 13, 2017 [2 favorites]