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“Do satellites exist? If yes, then the earth is round...” You can easily see the details of the ISS with a backyard telescope.
RightRoundBabyRightRound,
I hope i won't get Deja Vu`s from this!...
How do you know, if what you see up there in the sky, and think of as ISS or satellites, is not a hovering or projected "plasmahologram", just like the moon and the sun??
Also, i haven't seen any high-altitude (weather) balloon videos that would show satellites...Maybe because these balloons fly too low? Or maybe because of daylight being too bright to detect anything of the size of satellites?...
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my reply to "THE SUN " topic
my reply to "What are stars?" topic
"Is THIS the sun/moon/stars/planets?" topic
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First, the weather balloon thing... the highest a weather balloon has ever gone is around 32 miles high in 2002. The space station orbits around 250 miles above the earth’s orbit, and the lowest a satellite can orbit without burning up is around 120 miles above the surface. So yeah just simply too low, with cameras that are usually faced or slanted downward anyways.
As for the space station:
Well philosophically speaking, you’re right..... can I be completely sure the space station exists without ever seeing it up close or touching it to make sure it’s not some sort of large, rigid, balloon that moves 5 miles/s on a very predictable and observable path? No, not really. But there is enough reason for me to believe that NASA isn’t lying about the existence/nature of the space station? Yes, here’re just a few reasons:
1. Russia uses the space station too.. what would they have to gain by corroborating with the US?
2. The twins study. Why fake an entire huge research project, data, etc? Literally pointless.
3. Skylab’s descent and debris
4. The entire space shuttle program, and flights/descents of shuttles that I have both heard and watched
Is the idea of a space station (as NASA explains it) more scientifically plausible than the idea of something manmade that can “hover” and move in predictable flight paths without any sort of energy source or planetary orbit to keep it aloft? Yes. Space station more believable than a 20 year holographic hoax? Yep.
Please let me know if this gave you deja vu.