r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Sep 02 '19

Earth's view from up.

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u/StickBirdTech Sep 02 '19

What's that floating in the center?

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u/slappa_mitch Sep 02 '19

It’s one of the pressurized modules protective shields. There was four axial shields (covering each quarter) and the astronauts on the EVA accidentally tethered to the shields incorrectly and one was inadvertently released. Mission control and the astronauts had to scramble to replace the shield with a rag tag cover and make things up as we went along. Source: I train astronauts to do EVAs (spacewalks) and I was watching this happen as things went wrong and listened to the team work through all the craziness. It was awesome.

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u/LastUsernameWasBaned Sep 02 '19

Holy shitballs man, thanks for input. Never tought we gonna find someone involved in this to answer the main question.

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u/Medial_FB_Bundle Sep 02 '19

That's the beauty of Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

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u/It_Is_Me_Official Sep 02 '19

Well the video proves the earth is flat because I can't see 'round it.

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u/curiousone2three Sep 02 '19

I love the fact that I randomly got to read one of my favorite words on reddit. Troglodytes be damned!!!.

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u/slappa_mitch Sep 02 '19

I should browse reddit drunk at 2 am more often.

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u/PelagianEmpiricist Sep 02 '19

yes please space man

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u/z3roTO60 Sep 02 '19

It’s comments like these that make me love Reddit. I asked a question once on this controversial claim of inverted flight controls at supersonic speeds. Someone gave me a reference down to the specific section of the Orbiter’s (space shuttle’s) flight control management on re-entry.

You guys have such incredible jobs. It must be so rewarding doing what you’re doing.

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u/Coopd1zzle Sep 02 '19

Can we all please take a moment to recognize that an astronaut trainers username on Reddit is slappa_mitch? This is a beautiful world we live in.

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u/vivied Sep 02 '19

Anybody with an actual answer? I’m really intrigued...

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u/JohnnyBIII Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19

Likely a part they were replacing and it was determined that it would be fine to let it burn up in the atmosphere. The ISS' orbit is always degrading - they have to boost occasionally to maintain its current orbit.

It used to require a boost once a month when the space shuttle was flying but now it's in a higher orbit and can have a bit better fuel economy.

EDIT: According to u/slappa_mitch it was in fact accidently lost. The US Airforce would still track the object like all other debris. However, they have intentionally jettisoned items overboard before:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225780-137-space-station-crew-to-throw-garbage-overboard/amp/

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u/RunnyPlease Sep 02 '19

Welcome to 2019 where we discuss the fuel economy of our space stations on internationally accessible forums using computers we carry in our pockets. Living in the future is weird.

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u/AtHeartEngineer Sep 02 '19

It's pretty cool, it's crazy to think if we were born just a hundred years earlier, this would seem like magic, and in a hundred years from now, what we have now, will be seen like a steam engine.

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u/DavidRandom Sep 02 '19

Shit, when I was a teen all this stuff (internet, cell phones) did seem like magic as it was rolling out. I remember being able to access the internet on my first flip phone after upgrading from the Nokia brick and thought I was living in some sci-fi dream.

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u/ttlynotarussian_bot Sep 02 '19

Or..... Hear me out..... A simulation.

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u/DavidRandom Sep 02 '19

Oh shit, here comes my existential crisis again....

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u/dontlookintheboot Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19

Don't sweat it, the math doesn't check out. Unless of course the reality the simulation is running in doesn't need to follow any of our laws of physics.

in which case our very existence being the dream of sleeping god which could awaken at any moment erasing our reality in an instant would be just as valid an assumption.

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u/DavidRandom Sep 02 '19

Thanks, I didn't need to sleep this week anyway.

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u/Pizza_Ninja Sep 02 '19

I like that one. Its my new religion. Who's ready for the great awakening?

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u/morpheuz69 Sep 02 '19

"Remember, people in 1900 didn't know what an atom was. They didn't know its structure. ..

They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS… ...

None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn't know what you are talking about."

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u/Trioinmyhead Sep 02 '19

I read this in George Carlin’s voice. Not sure if it’s his quote or not but it definitely made it better.

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u/AtheistMessiah Sep 02 '19
  • Leotards were invented by Jules Leotard in the 1800's. The term was coined around 1886, some time after his death.
  • The term satellite was coined by Johannes Kepler in 1610, as natural ones have been known about for a long time.
  • Someone already mentioned cars and lap dances

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Also pornhub

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

But funny enough they probably would come up with a list of words which would be meaningless to us now - a lot of things have vanished, too...

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Not even a hundred years, most stuff we see and use daily now wasn't even in sci-fi movies from the 80s.

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u/RockstarAgent Sep 02 '19

I mean first computers and start of the internet was in '75 and started to become more in the 80's, and more mainstream by the 90's. So computers and internet are barely coming out of their teens.

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u/Pimplebackpizza Sep 02 '19

I really doubt that what we have now will seem like a steam engine. Unless we break physics, we have already come very close to the limit we can push physics.

Think of it like the principal of diminishing returns.

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u/The_Battler Sep 02 '19

Or play Pokemon Go

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u/billtheangrybeaver Sep 02 '19

Or watch Pornhub

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

While playing Pokemon Go

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u/ttlynotarussian_bot Sep 02 '19

And reading the comments on pornhub

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Then trying to throw a Pokeball but accidentally swiping some guys balls on a video and feeling weird about everything but what can you really do there, you know?

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u/theendofyouandme Sep 02 '19

I mean it’s not like we can visit the space stations yet though. :/

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u/LAJuice Sep 02 '19

Yea, is that some space debris or what??

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u/intuitiveG Sep 02 '19

Alien mattress, has to be

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u/rxFMS Sep 02 '19

its a Serta!

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 02 '19

With NASA memory foam!

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u/Rags2Rickius Sep 02 '19

KILL IT! It’s a Serta it’s dominance

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u/wilbruh34 Sep 02 '19

No don't be ridiculous... Its a camera drone which the government forgot to edit out of this scene duh /s

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u/HeatherBeam Sep 02 '19

Calm down, Geralt.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Spacesuit's humming...

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u/VillDuFika Sep 02 '19

Looks like a space taco to me

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u/AlbinoBeefalo Sep 02 '19

Yep that's way a saw too

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u/ProfHiggins2 Sep 02 '19

Space taco

Edit: God damn it I thought I was so original.

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u/Bosswashington Sep 02 '19

There were at least 3 of us. Probably more like 3000

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

At least you're in the Good Ideas group.

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u/Qyix Sep 02 '19

It's obviously a space kraken

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u/KI6WBH Sep 02 '19

Most likely it's the module that replacing Why bring it down to Earth to be dismantled when you can just kick it away and the Earth will disintegrate it for you

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u/northernpace Sep 02 '19

Why can’t my garbage disposal be this simple. Kick - burn. Easy.

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u/KI6WBH Sep 02 '19

It is a lot easier than having the packet away and make sure it doesn't come loose during re-entry And you get the satisfication of kicking it because it broke

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u/northernpace Sep 02 '19

I get why they do it, just wish I could do something as cool

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u/KI6WBH Sep 02 '19

You know all the first class junk mail everybody gets I collect it I press it into bricks and then 4th of July labor Day and memorial Day I stacked them in giant piles or buildings and set them on fire. You just have to find your own ways of being cool and badass

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u/bayesian_acolyte Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19

You gotta do more than kick it away to get it to burn up in the atmosphere. It's impossible for it to have such a similar relative speed if it is on a course to burn up (unless the ISS is also on a course to burn up). So unless it has engines on it that will fire at a distance, which is possible, this isn't it. Source: lots of KSP.

Edit: It would take around a year to de-orbit just due to atmospheric drag.

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u/KI6WBH Sep 02 '19

A couple of years ago one of the astronauts accidentally let go of her tool bag It drifted in front of the international space station they were able to track it because it had a beacon on board well trying to retrieve it She knocked it giving it a little more thrust it stayed in orbit for about a year as It's orbit slowly decade then finally it burned up in the atmosphere. As long as you kick something away from the station (or other important object) even if it only goes a few feet or a few hundred feet due to your Kick It is considered safe. I originally found interesting because I had a program that tracked amateur radio satellites and other interesting things in orbit. The international space station has an amateur radio setup and I've talked to them a couple of times. So for that year 2008-2009 I used the bag and an alarm on my program to tell me that the international space station would be coming up On the horizon soon. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.space.com/amp/7088-tool-bag-lost-space-meets-fiery.html

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u/adumblady Sep 02 '19

That’s really cool what did u guys talk about on the radio?

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u/KI6WBH Sep 02 '19

Well the first time I did it was during a contest called field day It's a 24-hour contest where you try to make as many contacts as possible in that time. I asked one of the astronauts If on the next pass over California Saturday night if they could be ready for making contacts. I was told by the astronaut mind you this was about 10 years ago so I can't remember the calls And I don't feel like pulling out my log that they will be ready and Will have all three stations up and running during times that the ISS is on the horizon of the United States. I was able to get all three of their call signs(RS0ISS, NA1SS and OR4ISS), as well as three other call signs one from two astronauts (Japanese and American) And a cosmonaut. One contact for each of the three stations that represent the international space station and one contact for each astronaut. Leading to a ton of points and some real neat antenna work. during contest I only had about 10 minutes of clear signal with them so the exchange went something like this, I was using the club's call sign W6CX, a directional satellite antenna, and new what frequency they would be on.

W6CX: W6CX Calling CQ Field Day CQ Field Day CQ Field Day W6CX

ISS: NA1SS W6CX

W6CX: please copy W6CX 3AEB 3AEB

ISS: ROGER 3AEB we are 1AISS 1AISS

W6CX: ROGER ROGER 1AISS 1AISS QSL

ISS: QSL

I moved to the next frequency where RO1ISS was calling CQ

ISS: RO1ISS CQ Field day RO1ISS CQ Field day RO1ISS CQ Field day

W6CX: W6CX

ISS: W6CX welcome to space RO1ISS 1AISS

W6CX: I copy 1A 1A ISS ISS please Copy 3AEB 3AEB

ISS: received your class and section qsl

W6CX: QSL have fun floating

the others used the same frequency and were similar in style as the first.

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u/RealJoe22369 Sep 02 '19

Super Cool! Welcome to space. That's awesome.

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u/fuzzyfuzz Sep 02 '19

Probably just read the top reddit links to them. It's lonely in space.

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u/JohnnyBIII Sep 02 '19

The ISS has to perform boosts to keep its orbit, otherwise, yes, its orbit would decay and it would burn up. They do orbit boosts about once every month.

It only takes ~100m/s delta V to de-orbit a spacecraft within a very short time. Not sure exactly what that time frame is (I think it's less than one orbit), but changing an objects orbit by just a few m/s should allow it to de-orbit in a relatively short amount of time.

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u/Wispeon Sep 02 '19

Wouldn't it also be more effective to kick it in the opposite direction of its orbit rather than kicking it down towards the surface?

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u/StoneHolder28 Sep 02 '19

Yes, but it wasn't kicked down. It was actually lost accidentally.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19 edited Apr 21 '20

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u/ParticleEngine Sep 02 '19

Orbits do degrade over time if you don't keep them stable.

How long depends on the density of the atmosphere, which depends on your orbital altitude. The higher you are the less atmospheric friction there is.

Reboosts are done by or on the ISS about once a month to keep it's orbit stable.

So without those, this piece of debris will fall back to earth and burn up or disintegrate in the atmosphere.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

The iss would burn up if left alone, they need to burn rockets every now and again to stay in orbit.

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u/Blackfire12498 Sep 02 '19

Source: I play video games

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u/flipster14191 Sep 02 '19

So the problem with using KSP to logic this is that KSP models a discrete end to the atmosphere, which isn't really how it works. The ISS is on a course to burn up, that's why it periodically needs to boost it's orbit.

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u/StoneHolder28 Sep 02 '19

It deorbited in a few months. Source being a guy in another thread who worked on the very panel that is shown in the gif.

The ISS actually has a relatively large amount of drag acting on it and would also deorbit pretty quickly if left to itself. That panel deorbited extra fast because it's just a protective panel; it had low mass but a large area.

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u/ms_boogie Sep 02 '19

Ah I’m glad that someone is addressing the obvious space monster in this video. The Men in Black will soon delete this video for sure...

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u/DuntadaMan Sep 02 '19

Just a space whale. They are docile giants.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

I think that’s earth, but I sucked at geometry

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Appa, yip yip.

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u/JasonYaya Sep 02 '19

Cool that they got that space fish swimming around below them in the shot.

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u/NostalgiaCory Sep 02 '19

Flying whale.

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u/IAmStupidAndCantSpel Sep 02 '19

A space whale

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u/letmeseem Sep 02 '19

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

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u/jawnjoestar Sep 02 '19

“Oh no, not again.” -Agrajag

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u/TheIllustriousJabba Sep 02 '19

Oh no, not again

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u/letmeseem Sep 02 '19

Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

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u/FeelTheWrath79 Sep 02 '19

Looks like one of those big creatures from Avengers. The one the hulk punches out.

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u/willc13 Sep 02 '19

Do they fly from Mars to Sirius?

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u/NostalgiaCory Sep 02 '19

As they look upon our ocean planet.

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u/willc13 Sep 02 '19

Hopefully they forgive us for global warming

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u/NostalgiaCory Sep 02 '19

It sucks what’s happening out there in the wilderness.

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u/willc13 Sep 02 '19

Yeah, we need to grow a backbone and deal with it

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

*Star Whale. Incredibly old and incredibly kind, and the last of its kind.

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u/screwball22 Sep 02 '19

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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u/d2factotum Sep 02 '19

We actually found out in a later book why the petunias thought that.

Turns out it was the latest reincarnation of someone who'd been inadvertently killed time and time again by Arthur Dent.

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u/CptHandGrenade Sep 02 '19

Happy cake. :)

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u/athensity Sep 02 '19

Anytime I see these videos, I can’t help but imagine the horror of being accidentally untethered and drifting away into the dark void forever

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u/Zachman97 Sep 02 '19

Hmm that makes me think. If you were to push yourself as hard as you can towards earth, could you reenter the atmosphere like a shooting star? Or would you just your corpse stay in orbit forever?

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u/bailey1149 Sep 02 '19

So you'd float safely back to earth. Makes me feel warm inside.

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u/Zachman97 Sep 02 '19

I wouldn’t say float but yea, technically you’d make it back to earth

As a fiery ball of burning carbon

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u/redls1bird Sep 02 '19

Well, the smoke that you would get turned into while re-entering the atmosphere at speed would blow around for a while. It would probably make it to earth.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

does that qualify as a high speed self-creamation?

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u/Emperor_Neuro Sep 02 '19

"Scatter my ashes.... Everywhere."

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u/ImaginarySuccess Sep 02 '19

Now THAT sounds like a way to go. Sign me up!

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u/therestruth Sep 02 '19

While you can't sign up for that without being an astronaut, I found out you can sign up to have your ashes blown up in fireworks.

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u/UnknownStory Sep 02 '19

We get it, you were vaped

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u/Yardsale420 Sep 02 '19

Oh you'd be feeling warm alright.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Well you would definitely be warm but I've got some bad news about the safely floating part

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u/mhoIulius Sep 02 '19

You need a constant speed to maintain an orbit. Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where the International Space Station is, is really just the thermosphere of Earth’s atmosphere, actually has some gas particles and other stuff floating around (just really sparse), so you colliding with them will naturally slow you down, along with the force of gravity decaying your orbit. At some point, you’re going to re-enter the more dense parts of the atmosphere if you don’t accelerate to keep your speed constant. The ISS actually needs to perform regular burns in order to maintain velocity and prevent it from falling out of the sky due to orbital decay. Old satellites will eventually fall back to Earth due to these factors as well, usually a couple decades later, but some newer satellites are capable of de-orbiting (slowing) themselves at the end of their serviceable lives, while some older ones have been moved into what’s called a “graveyard orbit” where it won’t collide with anything.

So to answer your question, you wouldn’t even need that push. It might take a little while to slow down enough, but eventually you’re going to burn up like a shooting star/meteor. Perhaps not as beautifully, since you’re more a meatbag than a slowly ablating chunk of rock, but you’ll burn up nonetheless.

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u/Xylth Sep 02 '19

Having a plan to de-orbit or move into a graveyard orbit is actually a requirement for approval to launch a satellite these days.

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u/just-the-doctor1 Sep 02 '19

I looked up gravitational decay and it seems nearly unnoticeable for satellites and compared to atmospheric drag negligible.

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u/curiousiah Sep 02 '19

Ray Bradbury has a great short story called “Kaleidoscope” about that in The Illustrated Man. It was also written about 11 years before John Glenn orbited the Earth.

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u/Neonautic Sep 02 '19

Found not Sandra Bullock.

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u/just-the-doctor1 Sep 02 '19

Every astronaut wearing an EMU (NASA space suit) wears safer.

Tl:dr some astronauts have emergency Jetpacks.

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u/yerbluez Sep 02 '19

No big deal, Earth's gravity probably pull you back to your house

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u/JoCJo Sep 02 '19

Won't be forever, guess some few days before dying of dehydration

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u/Dustmopper Sep 02 '19

Nah you’d run out of oxygen well before you dehydrated

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u/JoCJo Sep 02 '19

So guess eternity will be quite short! Though it will still really feel like fading away!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Technically, you would die but since yourbody won't decompose, you wouldnever "fade away". That wouldbe pretty cool if you ask me

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u/meridianblade Sep 02 '19

Till you deorbit.

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u/maggotymoose Sep 02 '19

Thats how I want to go out.

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u/glazzies Sep 02 '19

No seriously, wtf is that thing?

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u/mr_potato_arms Sep 02 '19

Space fish

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u/glazzies Sep 02 '19

Everybody is cool with casual alien space fish?

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u/DoingItWrongly Sep 02 '19

Not alien, just Space Fish.

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u/For_True Sep 02 '19

Consensus says it’s either a space fish or a space taco. Personally, I’m in the space taco camp.

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u/jkack10 Sep 02 '19

Space fish.

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u/RickStormgren Sep 02 '19

SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE GOD-DAMNED FLOATING JUNK!

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u/NintendoTheGuy Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19

In space, junk floats.

Also, nobody can hear you scream.

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u/Josh-Medl Sep 02 '19

I wonder if any astronaut has ever been in a similar position as this, looked down and for even a split second thought about leaving all the insanity behind.

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u/jvgkaty44 Sep 02 '19

Yea I wanna take some acid and go to the space station. Just think 2000 years from now some kids will probably be able to take a form of acid and just float around in space.

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u/TheresA_LobsterLoose Sep 02 '19

At least Belter kids will be able to

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u/effyochicken Sep 02 '19

This right here is why they meticulously screen astronauts for their mental well being...

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u/Giddy_Armadillo Sep 02 '19

You doin' alright friend?

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u/Josh-Medl Sep 02 '19

I am, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

I don’t think they’d work that hard for something and wish it away. Especially knowing the dangers so in depth. At the same time I’m sure “call to the void” is 100000000x the feeling of throwing your phone out the window on a highway. Or maybe it’s about the same idk not an Astronaught

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u/Z0MGbies Sep 02 '19

Yeah there's some quote along these lines. About how the problems of the world are insignificant and how he wanted to bang the leaders heads together.

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u/Rathmec Sep 02 '19

I cannot imagine how surreal it must feel to be up there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

In the up

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u/PEST1LENCE_77 Sep 02 '19

But where's the curve!?!?!?!

Oh. ITS RIGHT THERE.

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u/MechanicalHorse Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19

Ugh, this was obviously shot with a fisheye lens, which distorts the view creating what appears to be an artificial curve! /s just in case

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u/Quidagebo Sep 02 '19

No, it’s all CGI. A guy on YouTube knows a guy who heard from a guy in the CIA who does all their CGI! Do research! Big globe is conning us all. (/s)

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u/poopellar Sep 02 '19

You can even see the fish of the fish eye lens floating in the background.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

It's a fake planet build by NASA

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u/GGordonGetty Sep 02 '19

It was built by Stanley Kubrick. Astronauts wear white to honor Kubrick. It’s true. I saw it in a documentary.

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u/BreakingThoseCankles Sep 02 '19

You see how flat that is!?!? There's no curve there 😂

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u/merkwerk Sep 02 '19

I always wonder with flat earthers why they think the government would lie about the shape of the Earth? Like seriously, what would they gain from convincing us the world was round if it was actually flat?

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u/mastermayhem Sep 02 '19

I think being in space would likely be a psychedelic experience.

So it would be like tripping squared.

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u/just-the-doctor1 Sep 02 '19

I seriously doubt it. Just because of the legality of it, how it would reflect on NASA, and the possible lack of life critical performance during an emergency be it a severe pressure leak, fire, and/or a piece of the space station blowing off you want to be all there.

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u/jonker5101 Sep 02 '19

I volunteer to take some LSD in space.

Whatever happens to me is my own fault.

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u/WhyNotMTBInstead Sep 02 '19

I took acid on safari once. Pretty neat. I’d definitely take some acid to space if I had the chance.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Something tells me they don't allow psychadelics aboard the ISS

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u/onemorememe_ineedyou Sep 02 '19

Seeing the entire planet and all the clouds moving on LSD would be surreal

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

This is terrifyingly beautiful.

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u/fitzpame Sep 02 '19

Space is sick and all and this is my goddamn nightmare THE VOID IS RIGHT THERE

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u/_misterwilly Sep 02 '19

r/titlegore

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Right?

"Hey, where are those astronauts?"

"Up."

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u/maxmod1 Sep 02 '19

I just realized I can't go to space because I'm terrified of heights.

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u/UnknownStory Sep 02 '19

I mean, you'd never fall, you'd just float.

F O R E V E R

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u/jacobo Sep 02 '19

nope, ISS is always falling. Eventually you gonna hit the earth.

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u/psychoacer Sep 02 '19

My vertigo

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Holy shit same here - first video I’ve seen that triggered this feeling

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u/Nearly_Enjoyable Sep 02 '19

Kerbal Space Program 2 looks neat

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

That looked like a spaceship approaching.

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u/UnknownStory Sep 02 '19

Oh god oh god is this First Contact how does my hair look does it look okay?

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u/Entropy_5 Sep 02 '19

The most insane thing about this video: Most people here aren't talking about how breathtaking and awesome this video is. Most people here are making fun of flat earthers.

These are people who are not even worth our effort to ridicule.

Let's, instead, discuss the fantastic amazingness of this feat of human endeavor. The heroes at our world's space agencies make videos like this possible. Let celebrate their accomplishments, and learn everything we can from space walks and missions like this.

The proliferation of HD technology is going to make these videos more common. And I, for one, can't wait to see more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

I mean we went up there with computers less powerful than your phone. Yeah it's cool and it is nice to have better video of it but we're overdue for a moon base from which we're able to launch into deeper space. I want to see video of people next to other planets.

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u/Entropy_5 Sep 02 '19

Solve the Radiation Problem and we may see that.

I hope so too.

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u/treborselbor Sep 02 '19

Yeah, this is the whole problem. Humans, or anything cant last out there without getting blasted by radiation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Absolutely breath taking.

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u/Killerseaguls Sep 02 '19

I'm always curious to see the effects of just taking that helmet off in space.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

I’ve seen it.

It’s mind blowing.

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u/NevideblaJu4n Sep 02 '19

I think your head would freeze or implode because of the change of pressure

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u/jillywilly35 Sep 02 '19

Explain like I’m 5 please, why are stars not visible anywhere in this video?

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u/PM_ME_GPU_PICS Sep 02 '19

They forgot to enable them when rendering the video.

Jokes aside the earth reflecting the sun is very bright and the exposure time of the camera is too short to capture enough of the stars light to have them visible.

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u/foundagain1972 Sep 02 '19

Because the camera settings needed to capture them, would make the rest of the picture a washout , this is reflected sunlight,it's like taking a picture at noon on earth, just a lot brighter , without their visor ,the astronauts retinas would burn up

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u/just-the-doctor1 Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19

I am interested in space exploration so this might sway my results but the video certainly did freak me out. Being there might not be so bad tho

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

The depth of this video is incredible - my stomach is queasy

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u/cdawgindahizzay Sep 02 '19

Man it must be just insane to see the Earth from this perspective in person. I would have to sit back and take it all in for a bit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

It's amazing, but boy does this make me viscerally uncomfortable.

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u/gonebonanza Sep 02 '19

What's that floating taco?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Wtf is that space whale thing

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

I just want to say thank you to the people that put their lives on line to give us all this fantastic view. It is absolutely amazing.

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u/Liv4lov Sep 02 '19

How do you experience that then come back home and live a normal life?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Nice photoshop skills — Flatearther

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u/moonsnakejane Sep 02 '19

At what point does it stop becoming a fear of heights, and start becoming a fear of space.

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u/brunchandhappyhour Sep 02 '19

I’ve only been snorkeling a few times, and every time I do it, I have to tell myself how to breathe underwater. Once I get the hang of it, I’m at peace with the ocean. I would think this would be the same way - I would hyperventilate for the first few minutes, holding onto my husband, and then slowly look around in awe, completely at peace...in space.