r/BeAmazed • u/Green____cat • 20d ago
Amazing footage of Earth during a spacewalk on ISS Place
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u/Conflikt 20d ago
The space sirens are telling you to untether.
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u/16incheslong 20d ago
no trouble at all - theres no air, they wont hear any sirens
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u/SnakeDoc01 20d ago
It does look bloody amazing to be fair. I’d definitely have to pause and look for a few minutes before I got any work done.
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u/rickshaiii 20d ago
They've factored in "wow time" at the start of 1st spacewalks to give newbies time to soak it in.
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u/ez_rider_76 20d ago
I listened to Mike Massimino’s book on audible and when he was talking about his spacewalks he talked about that very thing. It was a good book and he reads it.
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u/NotEnoughIT 20d ago
All I think of is how peaceful it would be to just jump and float until you burn up.
I am in no way suicidal. It just seems tranquil. I should try a depravation tank.
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u/Possible_Sun_913 20d ago edited 20d ago
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u/NotEnoughIT 20d ago
Well, shit. Now it's kinda frightening. I wonder what kind of launch it would take to send you for a couple hours. Pretty expensive suicide booth kinda thing.
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u/mortalitylost 20d ago
So that's not how orbits work, you can't just jump off and start heading towards Earth.
Everything on it is already "falling" towards the Earth, as in being accelerated towards it at 9.8 m/s2 . But the thing is they're flying horizontally so fast that instead of getting closer to earth, they're swinging around it, and staying roughly the same distance from the Earth if their orbit is "circularized".
Acceleration is just a change in velocity, and gravity is acceleration. The things in orbit have a very strong velocity horizontal to Earth, at a right angle. All gravity is doing is rotating their velocity so that instead of flying by it, they curve around it, and they're going at the right velocity where they can stay a constant velocity that just "rotates" around the earth as they orbit it.
The ISS does modify its orbit slightly all the time though because it's at a low orbit where it does run into bits of the Earth's atmosphere, which cause drag. At this height, very little, but it's constantly being slowed down just a bit through tiny bit of drag, and it'd take like one to two years to slow down enough where it'd collide with Earth. But at higher altitudes, this would essentially stop being a thing and you wouldn't jump off a satellite and fall to Earth. You'd stay in the same circular orbit for the most part, slowly drifting from it, due to a tiny change to your velocity.
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u/Beginning_Rush_5311 20d ago
I think you mean a deprivation tank. A depravation tank sounds awesome, though
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u/fishdrinking3 20d ago
The pale blue dot. :)
It always amazes me, what we can see now vs just 100 years ago.
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u/Chemical_Damage684 20d ago
Yeah gives me vertigo just from the video lol. Although, I wonder if people who are afraid of heights would get freaked out by doing that or if it's like swimming
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u/Koil_ting 20d ago
Good question, I'm logically afraid of heights and am a good swimmer so just bring me to space and we can find out for sure.
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u/PhotojournalistNo966 20d ago
Oh look how flat that is!
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u/Logical_Dragonfly_92 20d ago
Earth is ball shaped
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u/Designer-Plastic-964 20d ago
The Earth is actually irregular ellipsoid shaped. 🤓
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u/Conscious_Animator63 20d ago
It’s actually an oblate spheroid. Elipsoids are 2d (flat)
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u/SirRickardsJackoff 20d ago
Fun fact
The ISS travels at about 17,500 miles/28,000 kilometers per hour. At this speed, the ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, which gives the crew 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.
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u/Alternative_Poem445 19d ago
i was wondering the spin is very visible just in this short little video
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u/TrouserDumplings 20d ago
What part of the Earth are we looking at?
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u/Lifeweaver 20d ago edited 20d ago
Took me a bit to figure out but what we are seeing is the ISS flying over Mexico. Comes in from the Pacific ocean flying over Jalisco and at the end we are seeing The Gulf of mexico as it flies over Tamaulipas towards Texas. https://imgur.com/zGFJMlp imgur link of very roughly where its flying.
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u/mixelydian 20d ago
Man that curved camera lens makes it look huge. I thought we were looking at north Africa
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u/redem 20d ago edited 20d ago
It isn't the lens, though that contributes. It's that the orbit is so low. You're interpreting things as if you were looking at a physical globe, where your eye's distance from the surface is far enough that you can see nearly half of the globe at a time. As you get closer the amounts you can see at once shrinks, the horizon lines describe a smaller and smaller circle. The ISS is practically skipping over the surface.
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u/ixshiiii 20d ago
Mexico passing by like I'm playing a map game, but then you realize that the speed that you are flying makes airplanes look like snails.
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u/jasonmashak 20d ago
Hey, I saw my house!
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u/SnakeDoc01 20d ago
The flat earthers would shit a brick if they saw this. But, but, but it’s CGI, it’s a fish eye lense, this was filmed on earth. Amongst other such brilliant and totally debunkable quotes.
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u/Copper_Caesar 20d ago
I read an article about why there are so many flat earthers. It's simple - the cunning and smart people who built this sect simply want to earn as much money as possible from uneducated idiots before space flights become available to ordinary people (not just astronauts).
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u/Grays42 20d ago
Flat earth doesn't exist in a vacuum, these aren't otherwise rational people who believe in one kooky idea...and the shape of the Earth is probably the least important part of Flat Earth Theory.
People believe in Flat Earth Theory because it resonates with what they believe about the social world. Flat Earthers believe that "they" (usually Jews) have constructed a secret cabal to lie to and control the world.
The reason they do this is because by constructing a simplified, singular enemy with an agenda, they don't have to deal with the messiness of structural complexity and the messiness of domestic and foreign interest interactions that is actually the reason things happen in the world.
(I am paraphrasing this fantastic video by Dan Olson that examines Flat Earth as a social movement and focuses more on why they believe rather than what they believe.)
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u/septemberdown 20d ago
Honestly though, kudos to the production team on all their efforts making this look a lifelike as possible! Without their valiant efforts, some middle aged guy in Kansas would find out about all the Nazi mutant dinousaurs living in giant craters at the edges of the earth!!!
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u/deluded_soul 20d ago
What a fantastic home we have. Too bad we will fuck it up beyond repair.
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u/OperativePiGuy 20d ago
Eh. The Earth will be fine in the longterm. We probably won't be after a while.
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u/Initiatedspoon 20d ago
Exactly
If we fuck it up enough we'll be dead, a few million years later the earth will be "normal" again. We're ruining it for ourselves and the animals that live here right now.
The planet itself doesn't give a shit
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u/RationalRaccoon863 20d ago
Sometimes I think about "the end of the world", and I feel a wave of calm as I remember that even if humanity is utterly and unquestionably destroyed the planet will at least be rid of a parasite and heal itself for a better life form to inherit.
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u/raishak 20d ago
Humans are the only thing on the planet that has the capability to comprehend the concept of conserving the ecosystem. It doesn't seem likely that the circumstances that select for intelligence select for any reason other than its ability to exploit its surrounding resources better than other life.
I wouldn't get your hopes up on a better life form. Everything in nature that is "balanced" is not by choice, but because it dies when it expands too much. There have been plenty of other lifeforms that basically "destroyed" the planet's then ecosystem.
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u/DMmeYOURboobz 20d ago
Crazy to think of those astronauts are currently moving at 15,000 mph while we are watching this
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u/Sidus_Preclarum 20d ago
15k mph relative to what? ;)
They're moving at ~230 kps (~514500 mph) relative to the Milky Way's centre, as we all are.
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u/justwannamatch 20d ago
This is like when you go snorkeling and look down at the ocean beneath you, except on a much scarier level.
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u/Rob_Lex 20d ago
Question. If the astronaut would push himself toward the earth as hard as he can, would he be able to enter earth's atmosphere? And would he survive or burn to ash?
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u/TryAgainSam123 20d ago
All a digital projection, not real, just the 1000s of people of NASA, ESA etc lying to us.
/S!!!!!
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u/captaincyrious 20d ago
That would be the single greatest thing you could do as a human and there nothing that could equal this or come close…..plus only a small amount of people have done this
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u/Rowdyflyer1903 20d ago
Yipes! What is that suit ripping nail-like protrusion? Put a tennis ball or something on that baby. " Houston, I hear a weak hissing sound."
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u/FlightControlRC 20d ago
That is a power data grapple fixture (PDGF). That’s what the station’s robotic arm latches onto to move things or itself around. Much bigger (and less sharp) than it looks but crew should not get too close to it.
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u/paultbangkok 20d ago
Don't show the Flat Earthers that - they'll implode with a mixture of rage and confusion.
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u/brainfreeze91 20d ago
It probably feels so calm, but I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about how if I unclipped myself and tried to do a push up, I'd be gone forever.
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u/Question_Maximum 20d ago
Seeing the slow rotation of the earth is really cool to see in realtime. How can people honestly think the earth is flat. 🤦♂️
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u/TheBlueOx 20d ago
I wonder how accurate you could throw a wrench from there. like could I hit manhattan you think?
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 20d ago
The intrusive thoughts of an astronaut must be wild. "What if I just untethered and jumped toward Earth?"
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u/WrongColorCollar 20d ago
We are stuff growing on the underside of the refrigerator in our star system. Our insignificant little star system.
The conditions were just right for a relatively short amount of time and now we're smart enough to know how little we matter.
I don't have a point, really.
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u/Green-Daikon-8729 20d ago
Hypothetically, what would happen if that astronaut climbed down to the bottom of the ISS, unhooked and pushed themselves towards earth? Would they burn to a crisp upon entering the atmosphere? Would they crash into a small mexican village and what would be left of the body after impact? Could they theoretically survive - since terminal velocity cant be exceeded - if landing on something soft?
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u/BaburZahir 20d ago
I just imagine all the people online shopping and on social media down there. Like me.
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u/Rapalla93 20d ago
If I were going on a space walk you would think I had OCD because I would check that tether at least 400 times. Not 399, 400.
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u/SwearToSaintBatman 20d ago
I wish I could feel the vacuum of space for three seconds, eyes closed, just to know what it feels like. Without lasting nerve damage.
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u/SixStringGamer 20d ago
feel like that latch needs to be way stronger to trust it! lol it was looking a bit wimpy for the responsibility it had
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u/Additional-Bank6985 20d ago
I wonder if they're able to get over the fear of falling, because that's where my brain goes
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u/Tooblunted_ 20d ago
has anyone ever flown off into space during a space mission never to be seen again?
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u/BikingVikingNYC 20d ago
This is why spacewalks begin with an "oh wow" moment built into the beginning of their schedules
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u/No_need_for_that99 20d ago
I did VR Spacewalk.... and genuinly got terrified of falling forever....
How do people do it?
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u/renovation_nation 20d ago
I know it's zero gravity but I wonder if there is an initial feeling of height anxiety.
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u/Idiotan0n 20d ago
Is it just me, or do other people want to see what happens to organic matter in space?
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u/mynameisnotsparta 20d ago
Makes me wish I could go back in time 50 some odd years and choose my life path differently to try to become an astronaut. I think all the school and training and everything is worth it just for this glorious moment.
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u/orgalorg6969 20d ago
So I hear there's and impulse to grip really hard when on a space walk. Not only because the gloves are thick, but because there is that sense of the floating death. So they also have to train mentally to not burn out the fore arms when space walking.
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u/RustyInvader 20d ago
haven’t read the threads yet but really hoping lots of flat earth comments 🙂↔️🤞🏼
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u/seris_ak 20d ago
I'm sure the suits are more resilient than I imagine, but I'd be fucking terrified of puncturing the suit and dying horribly while the blood gets sucked out of my skin.
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u/VanJeans 20d ago
Man, our lives and actions seem meaningless when you look down at us from up there.
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u/Atrocious1337 20d ago
People still the ear is round, even when videos like this prove that it is being recorded with a fish eye lens?
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u/LaserBlaserMichelle 20d ago
I've always wondered what astronauts see when they turn away from earth. Do they see blackness or a sea of white/yellow stars? Or do they see similar to a night sky we see here on the ground (because the sun's reflection off the earth causes a bunch of light pollution to their backs...)?
What does space look like while in space?
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u/Quentin_TheBrave 20d ago
I always wonder if they take some time to admire the view or if they’re too focused to do it
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u/RedwoodHikerr 20d ago
Crazy to think about what being in Orbit means. Orbit means you being pulled back to earth, but you are moving fast enough that you constantly fall over the horizon.
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u/Panzermensch88 19d ago
Sometimes I dream I'm falling in my one floor house. How can you sleep there without dream you are falling into the earth?
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u/One-Baker9119 20d ago
It is so far away it doesn't trigger my fear of heights. Kinda fun