Space Things

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Yeah, I think it is presumed crashed. I only heard about it today so wasn't sure what they would be streaming. Real time video is actually hard to send long distances, I'm sure they had a camera running to transmit compressed later.

agree on the video, but still disappointing.

What would suck even more is if it landed perfectly but the comms are broken. If I was the "owner" I think I'd rather have a fireball!

The photo they showed in the "preshow" with the Moon shadow on the Earth during an eclipse was pretty cool. I'd buy a poster of that.

[Dadhawk]

Congratulations to India for a successful soft landing near the Moon south pole!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Congratulations to India for a successful soft landing near the Moon south pole!

And congratulations to the Russians on making another crater in it!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

Now at least you folks know the truth about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.

Bermuda Triangle is a myth propagated by the Atlanteans who's missile defense system developed and managed by Flipper and Moby ****, is out of control and shoots down everything that passes over.

I know this for a fact because Bruce told me so. It's the message you get when you play the theme from Jaws backwards at 72rpm.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

Dang, you actually believe that junk? It's all Jesuit theater. None of it is real; they have you living in augmented reality. I guess it's all that "spinning at 1,000 mph" and all... I'd probably believe anything I was told too, if I was spun around that fast. It must be torture to be exposed to those speeds and never get a reprieve. You have my sympathy.

[Irace86.2.0]

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

You're mocking yourself here pal.

Sure, that's what I was doing. Totally caught me.

[Ultramaroon]

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

You're mocking yourself here pal.

Your ignorance of science is astounding. It makes sense why you fail to protect your mind from conspiracy theories and fall for this type of crap.

You clearly don't know how objects like satellites and the International Space Station (ISS) stay in low Earth orbit (LEO). Objects in LEO are maintaining their altitude above ground by falling with enough tangential velocity to not spiral into Earth or too fast to fly off into space. Their tangential velocity is fast enough to orbit the Earth, and it is why they are moving fast above us and not just sitting in position. If the ISS was just hovering overhead then gravity would pull it down to Earth, but because the ISS is orbiting the earth, it is necessary to fire the rocket in an arching angel to intercept the ISS and to achieve escape velocity.

The escape velocity relative to the surface of a rotating body depends on direction in which the escaping body travels. For example, as the Earth's rotational velocity is 465 m/s at the equator, a rocket launched tangentially from the Earth's equator to the east requires an initial velocity of about 10.735 km/s relative to the moving surface at the point of launch to escape whereas a rocket launched tangentially from the Earth's equator to the west requires an initial velocity of about 11.665 km/s relative to that moving surface. The surface velocity decreases with the cosine of the geographic latitude, so space launch facilities are often located as close to the equator as feasible, e.g. the American Cape Canaveral (latitude 28°28′ N) and the French Guiana Space Centre (latitude 5°14′ N).

If an object attains exactly escape velocity, but is not directed straight away from the planet, then it will follow a curved path or trajectory. Although this trajectory does not form a closed shape, it can be referred to as an orbit. Assuming that gravity is the only significant force in the system, this object's speed at any point in the trajectory will be equal to the escape velocity at that point due to the conservation of energy, its total energy must always be 0, which implies that it always has escape velocity; see the derivation above. The shape of the trajectory will be a parabola whose focus is located at the center of mass of the planet. An actual escape requires a course with a trajectory that does not intersect with the planet, or its atmosphere, since this would cause the object to crash. When moving away from the source, this path is called an escape orbit. Escape orbits are known as C3 = 0 orbits. C3 is the characteristic energy, = −GM/2a, where a is the semi-major axis, which is infinite for parabolic trajectories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity

Musk/SpaceX and others are landing rocket/boosters on land and platforms in order to save money on the cost to go to space, so you won't see these boosters landing in the Bermuda Triangle, but NASA ultimately found it to be too expensive to retrieve sunken boosters from the ocean, so those initial stage boosters that broke off of the rockets do land in the ocean. This is by plan, but the rest of the rocket does continue into orbit.

I'm curious, do you think the ISS and satellites circling overhead are holograms or something? Do you think GPS is just voodoo?

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

You seem to be quite excited about a cartoon animation.

Again, more ignorance.

--Dude, they are using an animation mirroring the ship's distance and landing angel relative to the ground looking out at the moon's surface from the POV of the ship, obviously, because the ship can't take a picture of itself landing.
--The reflection is fine. Take a mirror and tilt it back away from you and look down, and you will see down. Shoe stores know this, so they put mirrors on the benches.
--The first image is of Earth from an astronaut standing on the moon looking up. --The second image is known as Earthrise, which is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

Dude, this is entertaining, but you gotta stop because you are getting taken to grade school. You can't keep getting pwned like this and just ignoring the hard evidence, and instead of acknowledging things, you resort to, "but what about this?" You gotta look things up for yourself and not take every stupid thing you hear or read at face value. (If you are disabled, autistic or learning impaired in some way, I'm sorry if I'm overly harsh on you with these facts)

[alex87f]

I wish I had the time to troll this much.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

You seem to be quite excited about a cartoon animation.

So, OK, you think I'm stupid enough to not know that was an animation? Got it.

It would have been cool if they had launched a drone camera ship along with the actual spacecraft though.

Then you post a video that claims the number on a runway shows the count of runways at an airport and not the heading of the approach (330 degrees), or the shot of the Earth taken from Apollo 8 in orbit couldn't have been taken from one of the landing sites, well DUH, it wasn't.

Let's face it, you don't even believe the stuff you're posting, just like your fellow Flat Earthers don't really believe the Earth is flat. It is entertaining though.

Thanks for playing.

[86-75309]

Where I grew up, the Earth IS flat:

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by 86-75309

Where I grew up, the Earth IS flat:

Even in that picture, you can see the curve....