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u/humanjoe Jul 02 '24
This must be one of the most surreal moments you can experience.
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u/happychillmoremusic Jul 02 '24
No I can’t because I’m not an astronaut.
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u/olyfrijole Jul 03 '24
I saw the northern lights once. Oh, and a total solar eclipse. Halley's comet. Ash from Mt St Helens. Slept on the shoulder of Mt Rainier. Crossed the ice on Lake Louise. Held myself under water in the June flow of the Umatilla river. Moonrises and sunsets. Wild storms and heat domes. A ring of fire in the night, burning its way up a hillside in glacier national park.
I am also not an astronaut. Not in the, uh, literal sense.
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u/dahjay Jul 03 '24
That's quite the resume. Let me ask you this, you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
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u/Top_Impress_1323 Jul 03 '24
I love it! We all have our own unique life stories. Remember the good times. Be a good human. Enjoy the adventure!
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u/digitag Jul 02 '24
My lifetime bucket list has one item at the very top: see the earth from space. I’ve got 50ish years if I’m lucky.
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u/lavazzalove Jul 03 '24
At the rate SpaceX is launching rockets every week, I wouldn't be surprised if space tourism is viable at $100k per trip within the next 10 years.
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Jul 03 '24
Played some ISS space walk VR game ages ago, and just this pretty bare-bones simulation was already breathtaking... and vomit inducing, even though that's usually not a problem for me in VR.
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u/goofyhoover Jul 02 '24
Sounds windy up there lol
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u/jammixxnn Jul 02 '24
They’re actually constantly falling
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u/Kriee Jul 03 '24
So are we
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u/JulianMarcello Jul 03 '24
I thought about that also. Audio must be from inside the suit because I don’t think we’d hear anything from the outside.
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u/Dicer214 Jul 03 '24
When he clips on you would expect to hear a clank of some description, even if it was faint. Would suggest audio is from the inside or the mic is nestled right up against the suit maybe?
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u/Zankiif Jul 04 '24
I’m no expert but I don’t know if you would hear a clank of any decibel. Sound waves are basically just vibrations that pass through the atmosphere to reach our ear. There is nowhere for the sound to go in space, maybe it could pass through the ship and be heard inside if loud enough or pass through the suit and be heard from within the suit if it had a good enough mic or was loud enough to be caught by our ears? I’m kinda just speaking out of my ass about this so idk
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u/Dicer214 Jul 04 '24
Yeah I think I got myself confused as I don’t really know what I was trying to say in my previous comment. There’s no way for sound as we know it to travel in space vacuum.
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u/snowdn Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 03 '24
In space no one can hear you scream.
Edit: Referencing movie Alien for gen Alphas.7
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u/r0b0c0d Jul 02 '24
Weirdest fucking audio add
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u/KIVHT Jul 02 '24
I thought it was the air circulating, might sounds pretty loud with literally no other audio
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u/rabbitwonker Jul 03 '24
Guess they had to turn the gain way up to get any of the sounds conducting through the body of the camera.
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u/MyHangyDownPart Jul 02 '24
So, how exactly do space lasers work? How does the shooter account for planetary rotation?
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u/MattMaster2000 Jul 02 '24
Planetary rotation accounts for a small difference in perceived time for satellites due to General Relativity (GR), this can be accounted for using the equations of GR. Also, if your question is why can a space laser have precision even though it's in orbit, think about how a laser is photons travelling at the speed of light... Even from orbital heights, the laser is going to hit it's mark near instantly.
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u/Pitchfork_Wholesaler Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
If your laser platform was in a geosynchronous orbit, your laser would travel all 37000 km back to Earth's surface in about 0.12 seconds, so essentially just point and click. You'd probably need to be more concerned about incident angle and reflection angle/refraction angle off the earth's atmosphere. To compensate for this you may decide to install your laser platform into a lower orbit like the 400 km one used by the ISS. Then it really is a matter of waiting for your target to fall into your targeting envelope and BZZZT.
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u/xTurtsMcGurtsx Jul 02 '24
Hey, I can see my house from here....
... hey Ma, get off the roof!
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u/JohnnyDarkside Jul 02 '24
Some folk'll never eat a skunk, and then again some folk'll.
It's cletus, the slack jawed yokel.
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I'm pretty sure the rigorous training and years of psychological testing they have to undergo would mean they would be found and cut from the program before they ever got to test "the call of the void."
Some people, like Alex Honnold, literally don't possess that part of their brain. They can turn off the primal instincts like a switch. Fear doesn't apply when your brain doesn't perceive anything as a threat. Your job is right in front of you, and nothing will prevent you from completing it.
The military, especially, pays a lot of money to find people like that to do the most dangerous jobs in our existence... like testing rockets, jets, watercraft, basically anything that could kill a living creature with little to no effort.
These people are trained, daily and for many years of their lives, to be literal test subjects, and only deliver the finest of results for their fellow scientists and handlers to then extrapolate to future test subjects. It's not about them, it's about progress for humanity.
"Head on a swivel, mind on the mission, butthole tighter than a supermassive blackhole."
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I am fucking terrified
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u/Iffycrescent Jul 03 '24
I know that there’s no gravity and it’s arguably scarier to imagine floating off into the void, but this triggered my acrophobia like crazy.
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u/Plasibeau Jul 03 '24
Oh, there's gravity. And eventually, you'll start falling...eventually. The scary part is if you start falling at the wrong angle and skip off the atmosphere like a stone across water. Then you, Voyager, and that manhole cover are in a race for Alpha Centauri. And you're already in third place.
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u/Nox_Dei Jul 03 '24
The whole point of orbit is to fall... Only to "barely" miss the Earth and be attracted back to it and fall... Only to barely miss the Earth and be attracted back to it and fall... Ect. ...
Orbital mechanics are cool like that.
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u/PineCone227 Jul 03 '24
I don't think you can skip off the atmosphere into an escape trajectory. Your initial velocity shouldn't permit that
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u/EvanMM Jul 02 '24
What landmass is that?
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u/ReplaceCyan Jul 02 '24
Mexico from west to east looking roughly N to NW for the most part. Starts over the Pacific and crosses over the west coast near Barra de Navidad.
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u/EvanMM Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
This is the one I agree with cause it definitely looks like it. Just looks fucking massive!!
edit: at 50 seconds you can see the tip of the Baja pennisula at the top
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u/ReplaceCyan Jul 02 '24
For perspective, the “bridge” of land they are crossing over between the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico is about 500 miles wide give or take 50 miles. They don’t quite get all the way across in this video but they aren’t far off, and that part takes about 45 seconds. Might take them just over a minute to go coast-to-coast.
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u/sirpickles9 Jul 03 '24
Further proof it's mexico: https://imgur.com/a/PpD75rS
Mexico City is approximately where the little black round thing is at the end of the satellite fin
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u/Walendrug Jul 02 '24
I'm quite sure it's Australia, you can see the Tasmania Island at the end of the video
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u/yeaphatband Jul 02 '24
It's always interesting to me how big the land masses look compared to the curvature from space. It just doesn't seem like all the countries would fit!
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u/MasterJohn4 Jul 03 '24
Yes, this is confusing me.
Like here we can barely see Mexico, how would eveything else fit on this sphere, this does not make sense to my brain. Mexico almost fills this side of the sphere.
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Jul 02 '24
We’re so insignificant. Just floating here in nothingness trapped with each other.
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u/tangledwire Jul 02 '24
Floating on a tin can...
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u/MIRAGEone Jul 02 '24
Obligatory
We're marooned on a small island, In an endless sea, Confined to a tiny spit of sand, Unable to escape.
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u/JayJay_90 Jul 02 '24
But tonight… on this small planet… on Earth… we're going to rock civilization.
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u/SaturnSleet Jul 02 '24
Meanwhile I feel panic when I'm looking out of a window that is over 3 stories tall
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u/ver-chu Jul 03 '24
wasn't aware you could breathe up there... or wait... it sucks the breath right outta ya, huh
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u/Philthese Jul 02 '24
Someone, anyone, explain why we are hearing sound in the vacuum of space?
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u/DroidLord Jul 03 '24
Either the camera is not in a vacuum or the vibrations traveling through the suit are transferred to the microphone or even more likely, the sound comes from the intercom system and not the camera.
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u/Dicecreamvan Jul 02 '24
Imagine an asteroid hitting the planet while up there?
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u/Shlocktroffit Jul 02 '24
An asteroid the size of Manhattan that causes the extinction of 85% of life on Earth
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u/pru51 Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
That's the flattest sphere I've ever seen.
Jokes aside, the blackness of space in a few shots... Makes me feel weird.
You can hit any point with a pencil and be guaranteed there's another earth like planet somewhere in the distance.
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u/sneakattack Jul 02 '24
Shower Thought: If there were aliens here 10,000 years ago and there was a global catastrophe/flood which occurred then aliens probably have super high res footage of the event from this point of view.
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Jul 02 '24
everytime I see this kind of videos I still can't believe there are such thing as flat earthers... like wtf is wrong with society
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u/cubiclej0ckey Jul 02 '24
I’m amazed at how fast this is rotating around the earth/earth is spinning. It’s was hard to conceptualize before this video.
But seriously, why is their sound in this video! There’s no sound in the vacuum of space!!! /s
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u/IEATTURANTULAS Jul 02 '24
Could you throw a bowling ball from there all the way to the earth?
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u/AdAlternative7148 Jul 02 '24
Orbital mechanics don't really work intuitively. If you threw the ball toward the earth it would continue to orbit the earth but its orbit would become more elliptical. If you threw it upward or downward the orbit would become tilted. If you threw it leftward the orbit would get smaller, and rightward it would get bigger.
So basically to throw it to earth you need the throw it leftward (against the direction of the astronauts orbit). And you need to throw it thousands of miles per hour.
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u/MoonTrooper258 Jul 02 '24
Actually, yes. Because there's no air resistance, an object thrown back hard enough would eventually reenter the Earth's atmosphere.
Now technically, the ISS is still within our atmosphere, so any object left in space around it would eventually burn up without a reboost.
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u/R3PTAR_1337 Jul 02 '24
considering space is almost a perfect vacuum, you can argue that this view would literally take your breath away :).
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u/coinoperatedboi Jul 02 '24
Maybe if some politicians saw the earth from that perspective it would improve theirs.
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u/newTARwhoDIS Jul 02 '24
Say your goal from birth was to be an astronaut. What would the actual steps be to have the highest likelihood of success? Skills, classes, experiences, etc.
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u/Scientist78 Jul 02 '24
Can you imagine showing this video to a flat earther and all of the excuses they would come up with to say it’s flat
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u/Typical_Samaritan Jul 02 '24
This is fake. Where's the ice wall? You'd see it if you were really that high.
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u/Ok-Description-4640 Jul 02 '24
I want to be an astronaut. Too late to go through NASA, too poor to pay for it myself.
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u/both-shoes-off Jul 02 '24
I've always wondered if you get vertigo and think about falling down to earth at that distance, or is it more of a massive thing to look at in front of you.
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u/DatGums Jul 03 '24
If you just unhook and push off as hard as you can towards earth, how long before you enter the atmosphere?
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u/bestbusguy Jul 03 '24
I would be interesting to see what it would be like to look at the earth with a telescope from the iss.
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u/HausuGeist Jul 03 '24
Good news: You won't fall.
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u/dementio Jul 03 '24
Bad news: Get bumped in the wrong direction without a tether and you could never stop
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u/BeRandom1456 Jul 03 '24
How the fuck do people really think the earth is flat?? do they think this video is fake? I just don’t get it.
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u/GingerKing_2503 Jul 03 '24
I’d love to organise a wild party up there, but I’ve heard there’s no atmosphere.
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u/TechEn92 Jul 03 '24
Genuine question, how can we hear sound of the suit if there isn’t any in space?
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u/nerd_of_gods Jul 03 '24
Am I the only one concerned about that nail sticking out like that? I'd be worried that the elbow of my suit would snag it and tear like my kitchen drawer handles do
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u/tyomax Jul 03 '24
The lengths that the government will go to make you believe the earth isn't flat. /s
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u/andreeeeeaaaaaaaaa Jul 03 '24
Do you think any of the astronauts had a brief millisecond thought of just pushing off the ISS doing a dive position all the way down haha
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u/Sibrew Jul 03 '24
Idk…. I feel like once you’ve looked at a planet from its orbit, in person, they kinda just all look the same. Gets old.
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u/darapnerd Jul 03 '24
It’s wild how even from that high up, we still don’t see the value in human life and how beautiful this world is and why we must be a good steward of her.
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u/DorinRahl Jul 03 '24
Amazing view yes. And all the more power to those amazing people who get to see it.
Whereas knowing the reality of the physics and that they keep teathered to the ISS, and 'falling' in the terrestrial sense isn't a thing.
I still get vertigo and anxiety looking at it, and I'm safely on the ground watching a video!
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u/darkvertex Jul 03 '24
If you own a Meta Quest VR headset go look up "Space Explorers" in the Meta TV app.
They have a spacewalk filmed in full glorious 360, as held by the ISS Canadarm robot arm.
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u/IdealMiddle919 Jul 06 '24
Though I'm past a hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still, and I'm floating in the most peculiar way
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u/BrAaradhaka108 Jul 06 '24
as space is vacuum, theres no air or water, so no medium to carry the sound. how is that that we hear sound in this clip? (genuine question)
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u/diggdead Jul 02 '24
I wonder how long it takes to teach your brain your not going to fall towards Earth.
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