Diameter of Earth: 12,742km
Size of Int Space Station: 109m x 73m (let’s say it’s a ball of 109m in diameter)
The ISS is 400km away from the surface of the earth. (let’s say it’s a ball of empty space 400km in diameter).
The earth is 12742/0.109 = 116,899 times bigger than the ISS.
The empty space ball is 400/0.109 = 3669 times bigger than the ISS
Per the ratio calculated -
If the ISS is 1cm long (in diameter):
the earth diameter is 116899cm (or 1168.99m or 1.16899km)
the empty space is 3669cm (or 36.69m or 0.03669km)
Now, use your brain (back by your years of PAP education and quality time spent on this forum) and VISUALISE this on paper and ask YOURSELF this question.
If you are an ISS, are you going to see curvature or it’s always a flat surface?
If you are now on land and look far ahead. Are you going to see flat surface all the way till the horizon?
Note: If one is using a camera or a GOPRO etc…there is always the issue of Fish eye lens i.e. one will see the curvature at the “horizons”. It does not prove the earth is flat nor the earth is a globe. We live on this huge and vast piece of mass called land earth.
The reason we see the moon as a “globe” is that we are far away enough to see the full shape of the moon. Of course, there are nutjobs who believe the moon is a flat disc but let us not go there.
Do we see the full shape of the earth from ISS?
My thoughts:
Again it’s back to the satellite and its fundamental theory behind it. Flat earthers are very zealous with debunking the theory of the satellites. It’s their basic foundation for their thrust of alternative arguments. Have you for once, heard any of them argue that microwave dishes, undersea cables do not exist or it’s a myth? They only flat out disagree with the existent of satellite technology even there is empirical and factual evidence based on research and development in institutions.
Btw..anyone passed by the Spore US embassy lately? Do you see satellite dishes up there? Say hypothetically they are fake dishes. Does one actually think the US embassy will have its phone lines, telecommunications networks go through the SingTel telecommunication networks? ;-)
EC