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The Sickest Selfies Ever

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    The sickest selfie ever taken was on July 20th 1969, on the Moon. Now, looking at this, it may not seem like a selfie at first. It's just a regular picture of Buzz Aldrin.     But look closer! Neil Armstrong is also in this picture... On Buzz's visor! He's taking the picture! It's a mirror selfie!      A couple decades later and a couple hundred million kilometers away, the Curiosity Mars rover takes a picture of itself. You can't see it holding the camera. Why? Because this isn't actually just one picture. It's a combination of several pictures it took throughout the day, which were then stitched together into a whole image as a sort of photo-collage. Its arm was always left out of the parts that were stitched together.     In a way, though, a lot of pictures we take are also "photo-collages", because a lot of cameras don't capture the entire image simultaneously. They use what is called a "rolling shutter" where it starts captur...