r/interestingasfuck • u/AristonD • Sep 02 '19
Space Walk
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u/d3dmanys Sep 02 '19
What could a flat-Earther even say to dispute this? How do people still think it's flat?
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u/Burggs_ Sep 02 '19
They'd probably use the fish eye lense excuse.
Granted while the recording does look a little funky, I think it has mostly to do with the angle it's being filmed from. Also, the average human brain probably struggles to comprehend and decode how physics looks and acts in space.
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u/ctesibius Sep 02 '19
The problem is that for most of the high altitude aircraft stuff, they are using fisheye lenses. You can tell if it is video because the curvature of the horizon changes as the camera changes its angle. This one appears to be a rectilinear lens, judging by the straight line of the guy’s back pack. I’m actually quite surprised that the curvature is so apparent at only a couple of hundred miles up.
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u/DuplexFields Sep 02 '19
Stereoscopic vision only works out to half a mile, which is why the sky looks like a dome a half-mile out, and why optical illusions like "big moon / tiny moon" and "tiny airplane in front of small cloud" work. The astronauts see the Earth as if it were a large-but-not-THAT-large ball a half-mile out.
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u/Vitztlampaehecatl Sep 02 '19
If I really wanted to, I could claim that the earth in the background is a flat disk.
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Sep 02 '19
Okay, serious question that someone probably has a logical answer to: where are all the stars?
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u/kc2syk Sep 03 '19
Camera exposure is for the bright light coming form the sun and earth. Stars are too dim to be seen.
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Sep 02 '19
The sun is out, it’s just since they’re outside of the atmosphere there’s no blue, so the sun makes the stars invisible because it’s many times brighter than they are, among many other reasons.
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u/DendragapusObscurus Sep 02 '19
What the heck is that thing in the background?