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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The video is also aware of your phone orientation, so you can look around during the fall. Neat.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not true for Android Firefox, unless I'm dumb.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Does seem to work in Firefox focus for me on latest android, though I admit I didn't bother trying regular ff.as I can't be arsed to whitelist yt stuff in NoScript even temporarily

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course the accretion disc is like the most powerful chainsaw in the universe, so between that and spaghettification by tidal forces there won't be much left to actually do observing.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

If you find a large one, come in at the right angle and the photosphere doesn’t incinerate you, it would certainly be an interesting way to go.