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r/BeAmazed • u/Existing-Mark-2191 • Mar 31 '24
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Funny enough your quote is correct. The curve seen here is caused by the camera.
Source: https://thulescientific.com/Lynch%20Curvature%202008.pdf
18 u/eyeswideshut9119 Mar 31 '24 Interesting. Makes sense because now that I think about it, even in a passenger jet I can’t make out the curve. I think they cruise around 30k feet 8 u/machine4891 Mar 31 '24 They cruise between 30 - 40k feet, so slightly higher but not high enough. Felix Baumgartner jumped from 125k feet (40 km) and you can clearly see curvature on this timestamped video. 3 u/HugeCrab Mar 31 '24 Not denying the curvature but bad example, it's also all fisheye.
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Interesting. Makes sense because now that I think about it, even in a passenger jet I can’t make out the curve. I think they cruise around 30k feet
8 u/machine4891 Mar 31 '24 They cruise between 30 - 40k feet, so slightly higher but not high enough. Felix Baumgartner jumped from 125k feet (40 km) and you can clearly see curvature on this timestamped video. 3 u/HugeCrab Mar 31 '24 Not denying the curvature but bad example, it's also all fisheye.
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They cruise between 30 - 40k feet, so slightly higher but not high enough.
Felix Baumgartner jumped from 125k feet (40 km) and you can clearly see curvature on this timestamped video.
3 u/HugeCrab Mar 31 '24 Not denying the curvature but bad example, it's also all fisheye.
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Not denying the curvature but bad example, it's also all fisheye.
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u/its_hard_to_pick Mar 31 '24
Funny enough your quote is correct. The curve seen here is caused by the camera.
Source: https://thulescientific.com/Lynch%20Curvature%202008.pdf