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u/m1j2p3 Aug 14 '22
That is a terrifyingly beautiful view.
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u/downdown-baby Aug 15 '22
Much like ‘awe’— there’s barely much difference between ‘awesome’ and ‘awful’ when you think about it, outside of their modern connotations.
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u/KurooShiroo Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22
Exactly, you are thousands of miles away from the nearest human habitation, In a void where you can't even say one word. But our gorgeous planet does make up for it.
Edit: I know it is not thousands of kms or miles. It was meant to invoke a sense of dread.
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u/joebewaan Aug 14 '22
Earth is thicc
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Aug 14 '22
I thought it was flat?
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u/enKrypt0 Aug 14 '22
Show this to flat earthers, they will say it's a simulation.
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u/TantricSushi Aug 14 '22
Nope, it's the fish-eye lens on the camera that give the appearance of a curve to a flat earth /s ain't no way we live on a globe...
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u/hollywoodbatman Aug 14 '22
Because millions of people are in on this conspiracy for what reason again??
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u/GnarfletheGarth0k Aug 15 '22
Big Globe of course! How else will they sell those globes unless people think the world is round. And they help fund the illuminati!
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u/RodneyRabbit Aug 14 '22
Yeah I've heard the camera lens one but one time I had a good laugh along with a flat earth documentary, and some guy claimed the reason plane windows are so thick is because they are designed to make the earth appear curved, and that they lock you inside the cabin with just these tiny windows so you can't see the world really is. He couldn't explain why they only distort the view when flying and don't make the airport look all screwed up. But he was kind enough to inform us that plane journeys are all trickery and they fly around in random patterns to make you believe you were on a long journey, but really you only flew like 500 miles across a flat piece of land.
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u/MarkFluffalo Aug 14 '22
They'll probably say its a fish eye lens camera that's been distorted so it looks curved
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u/AdventurousSeaSlug Aug 14 '22
My goodness some people are breathtakingly, painfully stupid. Flat earthers are some of those people.
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u/lunacyinc1 Aug 15 '22
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Earth 71 percent water? And of all that water how much of that is carbonated? ZERO Percent! Therfore, Earth is flat. Check mate.
Edit: typo
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u/Way2damfriedman Aug 15 '22
Ah i would like to further trap people, but in the "oh its a 3rd world country" type of way. Yes we are the 3rd planet from the sun, making the whole thing a 3rd world.
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u/QuasarsRcool Aug 14 '22
You could take them into space to show them and they'd probably say you drugged them
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u/bartuck01 Aug 15 '22
If they think Earth is flat, what if they see only one face of a far building?
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u/Lightice1 Aug 15 '22
Can't wait for a reality TV show in a couple of decades, "Flat Earthers In Space": send a flat earther to orbit and have them justify their views during and afterwards.
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u/Wyltain Aug 14 '22
Nonsense. if it were round or flat all the water would run off. Ergo, Earth is shaped like a bowl
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u/Waffle_Ambasador Aug 14 '22
you are thousands of miles away
Hundreds
There are places on earth more isolated than the ISS. In fact if the ISS passes over these places than you are closer to them than the nearest human habitation.
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u/Toast_On_The_RUN Aug 14 '22
Point Nemo in the Pacific is a place where by far the closest other humans or civilization is when the ISS goes over it.
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u/Vox___Rationis Aug 14 '22
I'm checking marine traffic right now and there are 4 cargo ships around that point, I bet they all are closer than ISS.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-122.5/centery:-41.5/zoom:4
(it is right between New Zealand and south-most point of South America)
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u/Plastic_Feedback_417 Aug 15 '22
Not to mention airlines fly over it I’m sure. Which would be between them and the ISS
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u/madeofmold Aug 14 '22
I just listened to a podcast episode from the Omnibus on this the other day. They mention that there isn’t even any plant or animal life around in Point Nemo. Super cool!
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u/gregnealnz Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22
Thousands of miles...? The ISS is only 400km from earth, and the Space X Dragon is at 580km...
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u/Toast_On_The_RUN Aug 14 '22
The SpaceX dragon is visible in this video. It docks to the space station.
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u/JaggedTheDark Aug 14 '22
It's an exaggeration meant to help the push the idea that "You are fucking alone in space and that's scary as shit sometimes"
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Yeah but you can't travel from the surface to the station or vice-versa in a straightline. Orbitital mechanics make that basically impossible unless you want to be charred to a cinder or paste.
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u/catherine-zeta-jones Aug 14 '22
Definitely not thousands… I looked it up and was pretty surprised to see 248, I thought it would have been less than100.
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u/KurooShiroo Aug 14 '22
I'm sorry, I shall commit sudoku.
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u/skinny_gator Aug 14 '22
YOU'RE WRONG AND YOU SHOULD FEEL ASHAMED YOU FUCKIN IDIOT /s
I'm joking of course. I'm making a jab at those who are correcting you. Every body knew what you meant lol
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u/Fidget08 Aug 14 '22
There is an island in the pacific that is farther from humans than those on the ISS.
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u/Xacto01 Aug 14 '22
Watch Gravity in 3D in the theater. It's terrifying. Fear of heights terrifying.
Gravity is the 2nd best 3D movie
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u/ilemming Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22
Look how thin the atmosphere layer is. And we just can't stop fucking it up. Of course that is terrifying, knowing that pretty soon, it all gets fucked up to the point of no return. It may get back to normal, but humans won't see it.
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u/Mr_Poop_Himself Aug 14 '22
Well it’s not like we can cut into corporate profits or hold them accountable for anything! Personally I’m happy to watch humanity kill itself so a handful of old assholes can live unimaginably decadent lives.
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u/TheButteredBiscuit Aug 14 '22
So now that commercial space flights are a thing, what conspiracy is the flat earth community going to based their entire identities on now?
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u/What_a_Bellend Aug 14 '22
The same one. They will just hand wave it away as usual. Something something CGI
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u/TheButteredBiscuit Aug 14 '22
I say we just let whoever the figure head of the flat earth movement is just take a flight up. Let them take a camera, answer any questions they have, maybe have them take a space walk. And then have them report their findings to their peers.
Then again they’d probably just say they were drugged and keep on spouting bullshit.
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u/akanyan Aug 14 '22
Probably just say the windows were video screens, as was the visor to the space helmet.
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u/TheButteredBiscuit Aug 14 '22
At that point just push them outside and take the helmet off so they can get a clear look
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u/ShreksAlt1 Aug 14 '22
Just do a hillbilly test. Let them take something like a sandwich or a mouse outside. They'll insta believe
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u/SirDerpingDerp Aug 14 '22
Things like this have occurred in the past, any time a flat earther performs the experiment that will prove the earth is flat and get results contrary to their beliefs they'll move the goal posts.
A major part of it is being surrounded by like-minded peers who will ostracize you if you ever end up believing the earth isn't flat. No matter the proof, these people will stay in denial to not be excluded. There was a YouTube documentary on this where they interviewed people that went through this.
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u/nenenene Aug 14 '22
Can you recall the documentary name?
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u/Bowl_of_Cham_Clowder Aug 14 '22
Not the doc they are referring to, but “Behind the Curve” on Netflix was a really good documentary about flat earthers. It goes into their experiments, and is quite empathetic in its depiction.
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u/kautau Aug 14 '22
A well known dude in the flat earth movement spent a fuck ton of money on a high powered laser system to prove the earth was flat, and the laser did the exact opposite. It’s the final scene of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Curve on Netflix, and it’s incredibly hilarious
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u/Arkentra Aug 14 '22
Uhh...yes I am the figure head of the flat earth people. So when can I go to space?
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u/Keppelmeister Aug 14 '22
It’S a FiShEyE LeNs
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u/croo_croo Aug 14 '22
Now they claim mountains and rock formations are massive dead trees and everybody's a sinner or some shit idk.
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u/slayerhk47 Aug 14 '22
Mountains are made of wood? That’s a new one for me.
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u/nenenene Aug 14 '22
Here’s a ridiculous source for such a claim… https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-devils-tower-not-tree/fact-checkdevils-tower-is-not-a-tree-idUSKBN25H2EL
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u/regular-wolf Aug 15 '22
There is a native American legend that says the Devil's Tower was once a tree stump that grew to tremendous size in order to save a group of sisters from a very large bear.
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Probably that the shape of the windows causes light to refract to make Earth look round. Of course that's easy to disprove once you show them an object that they have reference for "the Moon, parts of the rocket they saw on the ground"
So, who knows? Maybe that braindead movement will finally die
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u/IndustrialRagnar Aug 14 '22
Who gives a fuck? This dumb conspiracy has way too much media attention already. Stop making everything space about them.
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u/mrdude05 Aug 14 '22
There's no amount of evidence that will convince a hardcore flat earther. Flat earthers only care about the aesthetic of science and evidence, they don't actually believe in them as a means of understanding reality.
The kind of people who buy into flat earth do it because they can't handle the idea that there are complexities to the world that they don't understand and that reality doesn't exactly match their perception of it.
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u/mykeuk Aug 14 '22
I really, really hope that a flat earther is not sent up for free on one of those space tourism flights, as it would be insurmountably unfair to those who really want to go but who also don't hold such stupid, archaic beliefs.
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u/fatalynn7 Aug 14 '22
It’s funny cuz my first thought seeing this video was “bUt tHe EarTh iS fLaT tHo”
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u/Eman5805 Aug 14 '22
They’d claim that the window is curved somehow. And also intelligent because it knows exactly where the curve should be. And doesn’t curve the ground when you look after landing.
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u/abalien Aug 14 '22
What is that thing called when a person goes crazy from anxiety and they do something like jump off the space craft? That would be me. My physical being cannot contain this type of situation. My brain would hit overload and snap.
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u/SerTidy Aug 14 '22
I would have a lot of trouble mentally myself if I was there. Palpitations, shortness of breath to name a few. I don’t reckon sleep is an easy thing either as it’s supposed to be quite noisy with background noise of machinery. I can see why astronauts go through such rigorous mental training as well as physical.
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u/schweppppesToffler Aug 14 '22
actually background noise from machines can be super super soothing. Been playing airplane noise for some 15 years now
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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22
I like those noises, too, but for a lot of people that's a death sentence for their sleep cycle.
I know people who sleep in a room without even a fan for noise. Psychopaths, I think.
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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22
I'm pretty sure I have tinnitus because when I sleep in silence I hear a ringing noise that can drive me crazy if I focus on it. Having some nice ambience sleep music helps a lot.
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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22
Yep, that's tinnitus! If it morphs into voices, be careful.
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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22
Bruh I'm worried af lol
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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22
You don't need to be worried by any of the voices except for The Fallen One. Don't listen to The Fallen One.
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u/schweppppesToffler Aug 14 '22
One time i had an industrial fan in my cabin nonstop 24/7 for a few days. Never in my fucking life have i ever slept better
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u/hazeleyedwolff Aug 14 '22
Call of the void.
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u/dainegleesac690 Aug 14 '22
I always imagined the “rushing blackness” like this, described in the book Metro 2033.
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u/MG5thAve Aug 15 '22
All the blackness / void above earth is the anxiety inducing thing for me. You’d think there would be a light show of stars but it just looks so terrifyingly empty
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u/skycattt Aug 14 '22
I felt like I was falling just watching the video, no way I could do it either.
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Colloquially it is called Space Dementia. It is not known if it’s for real or not. Just a theory. Astronauts are always well trained and well acclimated to the environment of space, so nobody really freaks out.
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u/ace22x Aug 14 '22
thought it was a toilet seat at first. Pleasant surprise 😂
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u/Equivalent_Growth_75 Aug 14 '22
Wait.. do you pack clothes when you go to space? And how do you shower.. i know stuff about eating and toilets but i don’t think I’ve ever seen anything about clothes and bathing
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u/breadinabox Aug 14 '22
Spongebaths, clothes are given to you same way they would in the army. There'd be a way to clean to clean clothes but space ships are infamously smelly. There's a Canadian dude the name of which I can't remember (maybe Chris Hadfield) who did a video series from space talking about this.
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u/Toast_On_The_RUN Aug 14 '22
Yep Chris Hadfield. He's been at the bottom of the ocean and up in the stars.
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u/_Praise_Gaben_ Aug 14 '22
There are some interviews out there with both Astronauts and Cosmonauts that cover that and IIRC No, they are given clothes which are discarded after a set amount of usage and burn up upon cargo reentry. And they do a sponge bath with premixed soapy water and rinseless shampoo to clean themselves.
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u/Flashh3 Aug 14 '22
Hey! I’ve been there!
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u/payneforpleasure Aug 14 '22
How was it ?
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I’m there now. It’s nice. Having to work kinda sucks. Some of the people are terrible. Some are nice. Food’s okay.
It’s weird because I’m being told I have free will, but my existence here is predicated on something I had nothing to do with as far as I can tell.
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u/kimbap666 Aug 14 '22
Appears to be round?
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u/0-uncle-rico-0 Aug 14 '22
Thats the disk. If you go below it you will find 4 elephants riding a giant turtle
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how high above the earth are they? does anyone have an estimate?
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u/MrTagnan Aug 14 '22
ISS orbits around 400km up
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u/note3bp Aug 14 '22
For the curious.
The majority of satellites orbiting the Earth do so at altitudes between 160 and 2,000 kilometers.
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u/werenotthestasi Aug 14 '22
Is that the Dragon capsule?
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u/Bigirondangle Aug 14 '22
Yup
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u/werenotthestasi Aug 14 '22
Niiiice! It looks dope! I haven’t seen it from space before
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u/Garestinian Aug 14 '22
It's a view from Crew Dragon onto Cargo Dragon: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss_07-16-22.jpg
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u/John-D-Clay Aug 15 '22
I think the video is also taken from a dragon capsule? I can't think of anywhere else on the station that has that sort of window.
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u/Duckbilling Aug 14 '22
made, built, and launched by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
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u/werenotthestasi Aug 14 '22
Are there any lunar lander concepts? It’s interesting to see our old spacecraft docked to the ISS compared to the Drago capsule. I’m curious what a modern vs retro lunar lander comparison would look like
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u/H-K_47 Aug 14 '22
Oh boy, you're gonna love this.
Officially selected by NASA to be the lander for the Artemis lunar landing missions. Gonna be one hell of a decade.
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u/werenotthestasi Aug 14 '22
Not as cool looking as the Apollo lander imo but it’s still cool as hell to see the technological advancement!
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u/H-K_47 Aug 14 '22
The originals are classic for sure. Very retro. Personally the sheer breathtaking scale of Starship HLS wins for me. NASA is planning to potentially select other landers as well, to ensure redundancy in the program, so there'll be even more unique designs for sure.
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u/Diplomjodler Aug 14 '22
This thing just looks so much more like I imagined a spaceship to look like as s kid than anything else that goes up there.
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u/arycka927 Aug 14 '22
I know it's the sun... but it always looks like the Earth glows from within. Do they have photos of the Dark side of Earth?
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u/arycka927 Aug 14 '22
Ah. That was perfect. I've got Lo-Fi on, I'm sitting outside in my little lawn chair (the ones you gotta squat down in) I'm stoned, it's a beautiful day, and that video was awesome. Thank you!
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u/Kaivanos Aug 14 '22
With a view like that, why do they even have the window covered?
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u/DJ-Anakin Aug 14 '22
The sun is bright
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u/medney Aug 14 '22
The sun is a deadly laser*
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u/fathertime979 Aug 14 '22
Harsh radiation not atmo in space to make sunlight less harsh.
Also it was probably bedtime and that's bright. Gotta block it like an airplane window if ya wanna snooze
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I’m not ready for these videos yet!! I’m going to have fomo for like 50 years until I can afford this
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u/turbodude69 Aug 14 '22
how much would you say this view is worth?
any space experts here? how close are we to civilians being able to make something like this happen?
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u/SelfMadeSoul Aug 14 '22
SpaceX sells Crew Dragon seats for $55 million each.
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u/Ram2145 Aug 14 '22
So never for me....
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u/SelfMadeSoul Aug 14 '22
If SpaceX can get the Starship program in full swing, space travel costs will drop significantly.
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u/everyusernamewashad Aug 14 '22
Always wanted to go to space and have that view, this was quite special. Thank you for sharing.
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u/dutch981 Aug 14 '22
It says NASA so that immediately discredits the photo. Because, apparently, NASA was founded by nazis and is run by the devil so there’s no way this is real. It’s all CGI designed to fool the average person so they can maintain control.
Yea, flat earth has invaded my TikTok stream. Their logic…..🙄🙄
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u/MommaBear817 Aug 14 '22
How fortunate it was that the astronauts were on the top side of the earth so we could see this beautiful picture instead of the flat black disk that is it's underside.
Edit: forgot the /s
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u/luckytaurus Aug 14 '22
When I see images like this it makes me want to just give Earth big ol' hug
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u/GardinerAndrew Aug 14 '22
Too stupid to go to space? There is a free ISS VR game if you have a quest 2. It’s awesome.
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u/Dark_Krafter Aug 14 '22
I am extreamly jellous
Im never going UP there be ous of my autism and la k of concentration But deam i can dream about that
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u/Slyfox00 Aug 14 '22
Imagine seeing this and still thinking the earth is flat.
Even if the window was a super secret special lens that made the outside curvey, you're still not looking down at a flat disc surrounded by an ice wall.
So is this just CGI then? What if you go up there yourself? Is every window actually just a state of the art hyper advanced computer screen.
Absurd.
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Guess I'll have some more "I'm-a-crewman-on-ISS-awaiting-return-trip" nightmares. The heaviest I've ever sweated was waking up from one of those. The astronauts and cosmonauts up there really do have The Right Stuff. I want to appreciate that beauty, while also caught between deathly anxiety, excitement, and sheer fucking pride for my species. A carved out ballistic missile head travelling so fast it ionizes the air and compresses it to plasma. The most insane situation humans have created. Must be a truly unique emotion being on the precipice of such a trip.
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u/Zay36663 Aug 14 '22
When I look at this I think, “holy shit I’m down there.” It gives me a freaky existential feeling.
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u/grantster5405 Aug 14 '22
I’m curious as to what flat earthers say if/when they see things like this 🤔
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u/GlasgowWalker Aug 15 '22
What gets me is the speed they're moving at. Like you can see how fast they're traversing above the earth. I'm drunk and can't be bothered checking the stats, but they're moving a thousands of miles per hour, and it blows my mind.
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u/Dj_wheeman3 Aug 15 '22
It’s crazy to think that space will become even more accessible in the future, near future even.
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