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Offline Gray2023

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Re: spaceplane just snapped a stunning view of Earth
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2025, 07:36:28 PM »
My husband found this article.

https://www.space.com/space-force-x-37b-1st-photo-from-orbit-earth

This quote was particularly interesting.

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Previous X-37B missions were flown in low Earth orbit, but as this photo reveals, the space plane is currently operating much farther from Earth. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is capable of launching payloads into geosynchronous orbit, over 22,000 miles (35,000 km) above our planet.


Offline Ladislaus

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Re: spaceplane just snapped a stunning view of Earth
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2025, 08:28:50 PM »
Yes, they count on 95% of people being stupid and just accepting whatever they put out there, like the absolutely ridiculous "Tesla in space" that even Musk admitted "looked so fake" ... but except for the small percentage of skeptics, they moronic sheep just lap it up.

Let's have a look at this purported image from the Cupola of SpaceX Dragon mission from September 2021, which allegedly hit a maximum altitude of 585km.


But when I go to Google Earth and set the "camera height" to 580km (closest I could get to 585km), this is what you see ...


This is literally just northern half of Ohio (my neck of the woods) and Western PA, and the very Eastern edge of Indiana.  Does this look like you'd see the tiny ball as from the Cupola of Space X Dragon?

It's laughable that so many people are dumb enough to buy this ... and the Tesla in space.  In fact, people caught glitches in the "Tesla in space" footage where the "space" background briefly disappears (for a frame or two) and you see the exact same background the car had when it was in the hanger before.


Re: spaceplane just snapped a stunning view of Earth
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2025, 06:52:36 PM »
It kind of resembles the egg that Mork from Ork used for his travels.

Offline St Giles

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Re: spaceplane just snapped a stunning view of Earth
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2025, 06:40:26 PM »
Yeah, that looks fake. The altitude doesn't appear right.

It doesn't mean that the earth is flat.




That was the first thing I noticed. It looks like it's halfway to the "Moon" as per the Apollo myth. The earth is *far* away in that photo. That's not even orbit at that point. You're drifting in the vacuum of space, you'd never crash into the earth whatever you do, if the Earth looked like the photo in question from where you stood. You'd be almost completely outside it's "gravity". Again, I'm talking about from the POV of their own space religion/mythology (which I'm quite familiar with, I should point out).

Of course, gravity is such a crock. There's no way there's an invisible string from the earth to your "spaceship" if the earth looked like that, forcing you to "orbit" the earth. Likewise, the Moon is supposed to be several times further away -- and much smaller than the earth. Yet it's supposed to cause our tides? Yeah, not any lakes or other bodies of water, just the ocean. There is NO good reason for that. And although the Moon somehow overpowered or vanquished Earth's gravity, even though the water being fought over is RIGHT NEXT TO the earth where it's gravity would be STRONGEST, and the earth is much larger (massive, more powerful gravity to begin with) -- somehow the water doesn't keep rising up after being vanquished in the gravity contest by the Moon's gravity. Doesn't make sense at all.

Sometimes gravity makes things attract each other, sometimes gravity makes things "orbit" each other. THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT FORCES. NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL.

And think about what orbiting MEANS. Orbiting is a near-constant changing of angular velocity. What happened to the conservation of momentum? Where does the extra energy come from? How does the earth (for example) slow down and accelerate constantly? Unless there were a literal string connecting the two, you can't just hit the gas full-throttle (no brakes) and magically go in a circle.

Could you "do a donut" (drive in a circle) without ever hitting the gas to add speed? See my point?

And do you know how much a volume of ocean water weighs? Why doesn't the moon's gravity affect other physical things on earth? Like butterflies, rocks, fragile stacks of rocks, or anything else? Why can't the Moon cause stress or movement on *anything else* with its powerful gravity?

Like I said: I'm not turning off my brain. I'm asking the questions I always wanted to ask. Saying the things that never made sense to me. I'm going with common sense on this one.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it false/impossible.

Offline gladius_veritatis

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Re: spaceplane just snapped a stunning view of Earth
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2025, 05:24:30 PM »
Yeah, that looks fake. The altitude doesn't appear right.

It doesn't mean that the earth is flat.

It means they lie.  In fact, all the pics look fake precisely because they are.

I am embarrassed for cassini.  He tried to pawn off such garbage here less than three months ago?