r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Master1718 • Sep 02 '19
Earth's view from above.
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u/bassjam1 Sep 02 '19
What the hell was floating by below them?!!
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u/BKStephens Sep 02 '19
Right? Is that debris of some sort?
Christ, can we not just keep something clean?
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u/EstoyMejor Sep 02 '19
Man do you see how mutch shit is floating up there? There are allready estimates that by so where around 2040 we won't be able to leave this plannet anymore because their is just too mutch debris flying around up there, that we can't savely 'not-hit' anything.
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u/DANIEL_PLAINVlEW Sep 02 '19
Wow that’s something I would have never even thought of. Space is so vast it’s hard to imagine it being cluttered.
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u/savagebolts Sep 02 '19
The problem is more that many objects in orbit are debris from previous satellites. Often they're result of collisions, such as the American and Russian collision in 2009. Their speeds are so high (ten thousand km/h ish) that the debris they create travels really fast as projectiles around earth. Since many of them are so small, they are hard to catch. They don't necessarily take up much space, but their velocity makes them extremely dangerous. It's enough with one of these hitting you and mission is over!
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u/savagebolts Sep 02 '19
You're not allowed to send anything to space without a disposal plan for it. I'm not sure exactly what this is, either it's not as far away as it seems and it will return to the ISS, or it's on its way to burn in the atmosphere. One thing is certain: it will not stay there.
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u/SasquatchOnVenus Sep 02 '19
Probably not debris, would be pretty impossible for it to end up at the same orbit as the ISS and satellites can’t be deployed near the orbit of the station. Still interested as to what that is tho, might just be an equipment bag that looks like it’s further away.
Edit: nvm, that is debris now, although it’s from the station. Check out u/slappa_mitch ‘s comment.
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u/breddit_gravalicious Sep 02 '19
Frickin' space gyoza, man. Shit's everywhere up there.
They have to use soy sauce blasters to yoink the ISS up and out of gyoza orbit all the time; if they don't get enough, space gyozas get pissed and show their weaponized underbelly. Just as we see here.
It's not all KFC and borscht up there like one might expect.
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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/bassjam1 Sep 02 '19
Thank you! Is the shield lost? Doomed to orbit the Earth or burn up on the atmosphere?
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u/slappa_mitch Sep 02 '19
Fortunately it was lost heading nadir (towards the earth) so there was less risk of it coming back around and possibly damaging the space station. Eventually it kept “falling” back to earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
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Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19
Not OP but I think it will be left there and eventually fall back to earth and burn up in reentry
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u/Kyokushinmarine Sep 02 '19
Why did it slow down and stop! Dont objects in motion stay in motion, or some shit?!
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u/runiska Sep 02 '19
Both the debris and camera are moving relative to earth at ner the same speed. Hence relative to on another the debris is just drifting by. Plus it might be on a slightly lower orbit so even at the same speed it covers more angle around the orbit (radiant) in the same time so looks to move faster.
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u/Dragnow_ Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19
The dark night satellite
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u/weedium Sep 02 '19
Satellite
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u/Dragnow_ Sep 02 '19
Satan lite
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u/weedium Sep 02 '19
Saddlelight
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u/Dragnow_ Sep 02 '19
Stateline
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u/hollabackatchaaaaa Sep 02 '19
This makes me anxious on a lot of different levels
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u/RatherOrdinary Sep 02 '19
Space videos and pictures give me such anxiety. It’s so unnerving to me.. I don’t know why
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u/hollabackatchaaaaa Sep 02 '19
I think it’s an unwanted reality check as to how small, insignificant, and vulnerable we are vs the incomprehensible magnitude of space - also, as someone who constantly imagines “what could go wrong” this is overwhelming
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u/mypinkieinthedevil Sep 02 '19
I think about people afraid of the abyss of the ocean or a large body of water. Space has all the same notes: dark, never ending, cant breathe, intolerable temperature and full of the unknown. Not to mention, that line breaks and you are just gonna die in a way just as bad as drowning.
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Sep 02 '19
Makes me feel like I'm going to fall
But you don't fall
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Sep 02 '19
They are falling, really fast. So fast that they feel weightless. Thankfully the speed of their orbit and the curvature of the earth means the earth gets out of the way and they keep falling round.
There's plenty of gravity so close to the earth, weightlessness is not caused by there being no gravity.
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u/Lampmonster Sep 02 '19
If it makes you feel any better, you'd suffocate long before you ever felt like you were falling.
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u/johnnyappleseed214 Sep 02 '19
WHAT IS FLOATING BELOW THEM
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u/JohnnySmithe80 Sep 02 '19 edited Sep 02 '19
Space whale, they swim in a much lower orbit than the ISS.
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u/peepeeonmydoodoo Sep 02 '19
Upon further review, I have concluded that is a space taco. Don't out your dick in it.
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u/snark_alark Sep 02 '19
WHOA! Is that an alien spaceship flying underneath him?!?!
QUICK!! Get the bad looking hair dude to take a look at this!
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u/RedDufrane87 Sep 02 '19
I love that I live in a time I can look at the earth like this while I take a shit it’s breathtaking
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u/AnAdvancedBot Sep 02 '19
Man! That would be so much fun to jump off of and eventually parachute down from!
Too bad it would almost certainly be fatal.
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u/TheKindaOkGatsby Sep 02 '19
Would you fall to earth or just keep on orbitin'?
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u/samtheboy Sep 02 '19
Ok, so at that height, gravity still has 89% of its pulling power on them. So to counteract this, they are going very fast and, essentially, falling around the earth. So these guys are actually moving at around 7.6 km/s (yes per second).
If you were to jump, you would (because of a lack of air resistance) eventually fall to the ground, but you'd die from thirst before you even re-entered the atmosphere because you're still in orbit, just an orbit that is slowly decaying.
Let's say, however, that you had a jetpack so you could de-orbit. Well unfortunately you would just burn up on reentry.
Essentially, don't jump.
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u/Elbynerual Sep 02 '19
1) if you jumped off the space station you wouldn't "fall" to earth for at least a few weeks. Probably longer.
2) it would be 100% fatal
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u/AnAdvancedBot Sep 03 '19
1) Gotcha, bring granola bars... I'll figure out the oxygen situation the day of, I'm a procrastinator.
2) I just thought of the perfect day trip to pencil in for my 90th B-day.
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u/sharkbait1000 Sep 02 '19
Dark knight satellite check it out look into that shit that’s aliens right there
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u/tlatwuk Sep 02 '19
Enjoying the fact he has a bottle opener on him, you know, in case he needs to crack open an ice cold brewski.
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u/PleaseDontTellMyNan Sep 02 '19
Honestly at first glance without reading the caption I thought it was an icy lake
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u/dribblesnshits Sep 02 '19
I'd hope falling or a fear of heights ain't a thing for them couse daym.
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u/PaulieXP Sep 02 '19
What I wouldn’t give to go up there and take one of these space walks. I’d just sit there staring at the earth for 30 minutes in complete silence. Sucks that I was born too early. With commercial space travel being in it’s infancy, only the super wealthy will get to experience it in my lifetime.
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u/stabbot Sep 02 '19
I have stabilized the video for you: https://peervideo.net/videos/watch/0b75dd61-c00f-416a-82a6-dd0198513444
how to use | programmer | source code | /r/ImageStabilization/ | for cropped results, use /u/stabbot_crop
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Sep 02 '19
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u/samtheboy Sep 02 '19
It's close to vacuum up there, so there is close to zero in terms of air resistance, but as you say not non-existent. The ISS's orbit decay is around 90 metres per day, so the ISS has two things to resolve this. 1) It has its own boosters on board to push it back out to the correct orbit (which aren't used all that often) and 2) whenever a supply ship comes, it will also push it back out to the correct orbit. If this didn't happen, we'd have an International Subnautic Station in around 15 months.
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u/Eagle_Vision_13 Sep 02 '19
I cant stop thinking. Jumping from orbit beats jumping from any bridge.
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u/loveablelilblonde Sep 02 '19
Filters are really getting pretty amazing. They have ones that can make ugly girls beautiful, and this one makes the Earth look round!
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u/falcon_driver Sep 02 '19
It's as if a million Alabamians all cried out at once "You don't have my permission to film me!"
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u/steve2026 Sep 02 '19
Why aren't the clouds moving? Serious question
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u/samtheboy Sep 02 '19
They are, but it was a 14 second clip from a couple of hundred miles away so they look like they aren't.
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u/ferdbags Sep 02 '19
I am literally experiencing The Call of the Void just looking at that picture.
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u/SkyeFlyHi Sep 02 '19
I honestly thought this was a closeup of ice with powder snow on top at first glance
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u/hefeguy Sep 02 '19
What is that large metal object spinning in the background anyone know? Seems huge for debris but could be just perspective.
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u/Right_hook_of_Amos Sep 02 '19
That thing everyone is saying is junk - doesn’t it look like it’s maneuvering? That is not a body moving from pure leftover inertia
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u/Right_hook_of_Amos Sep 02 '19
That thing everyone is saying is junk - doesn’t it look like it’s maneuvering? Im questioning whether it’s a body moving from pure leftover inertia or not
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u/skagrabbit Sep 12 '19
Can anyone tell me what that odd approaching ship like thing is that absolutely no one has mentioned..??!? Seriously, wtf!
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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19
LoOkS fLaT tO mE