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originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: Lysergic
Sup with those satellites?
Those just attached to blimps?
Satellites are a massive lie. They send up weather balloons, or high altitude planes, but no satellites.
A ruse works because it is reinforced, over and over. They claim thousands of satellites are 'orbiting' the Earth, and you assume it must be true. The fact that nobody ever SEES satellites in orbit doesn't matter to you. There are people who claim they have seen them fly above them at night, and that reinforces your belief. There is NO proof of any satellites orbiting Earth, however. Communications claimed to be from satellites are actually ground-based communications. Radio-wave, fiber optic cables, etc. are the ACTUAL communication methods used. They simply tell us that satellites are used for it, and everyone believes it. If they had told you 100 years ago that your radio was a satellite radio, where satellites in Earth orbit sent signals to Earth, which were picked up by your little radio antenna, you'd have believed it was true. Except they didn't claim there were satellites orbiting Earth 100 years ago, so they couldn't make up their BS about satellite TV/radio until many years later. A satellite TV dish is just like your little radio antenna, and you have no idea they're full of crap.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
a reply to: turbonium1
Really? Welp, then those little white dots that cross the sky every night on a predictable schedule must be magic then! Or perhaps they're just huge space fireflies? Here's another link to a source that you doubtless scorn.
You do know that you can see the ISS with a pair of binoculars... don't you?
As an aside I see that this sterile thread has made it to another page that will doubtless just repeat the nonsense of the previous pages. Can we get a mod involved?
originally posted by: oldcarpy
I'm not sure whether you actually believe any of the nonsense that you post or if you are just a massive troll but there are an awful lot of sites/apps that you can use that track satellites and you can use these to see them for yourself. Eg:
Live Real Time Satellite Tracking
You can even get apps on your phone. Some can be seen with the naked eye and you can use these sites to see satellites from your own location. The ISS follows a regular and predictable orbit and I have seen it with my own eyes many times.
So if these are not real, do tell - what are we seeing? Where are all those launch rockets going and what are they doing if not launching satellites into orbit?
What about weather satellites - are they fake too?
originally posted by: turbonium1
NASA's 'artist renditions' of space, and planets, and Earth, are pure nonsense.
That's not proof of ANYTHING. It's utter BS.
Let's see Mars, ourselves, with the same telescopes, to confirm if it's true, or is not true, what they claim about Mars....and the other planets, as well.
Stars are not endless, and millions of light years away.
Stars would blanket the sky, with starlight, in an endless universe.... Nothing would be pitch black.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: tommyjo
The windows would be fish eye'd, or some such twaddle.
That they merrily attempt to refute established, and verified, science, and fail in such attempts, yet declare victory, anyway should be evidence that their fingers are firmly inserted into their ears, and they're keening "lalalalalalala" as loud as they can.
Looking out a plane window is one of the simpler, if perhaps only, pleasures of flying. But Emirates envisages a future of windowless planes, instead incorporating viewing screens which are connected to fibre-optic cameras which are pointed away from the aircraft. SEE ALSO: Boeing's 777X wingtips will fold to let it squeeze into narrow airport gates The virtual windows are already part of the middle suites on the airline's Boeing 777 first class cabin, which launched late last year. Such changes would make a plane lighter and faster, and thus more fuel efficient, according to Emirates president Tim Clarke. "Imagine now a fuselage as you're boarding with no windows, but when you get inside, there are windows," he told the BBC. "Now you have one fuselage which has no structural weaknesses because of windows. The aircraft are lighter, the aircraft could fly faster, they'll burn far less fuel and fly higher." Clarke added the windows have an image quality that "is better than with the natural eye."
originally posted by: turbonium1
NASA's 'artist renditions' of space, and planets, and Earth, are pure nonsense.
That's not proof of ANYTHING. It's utter BS.
Let's see Mars, ourselves, with the same telescopes, to confirm if it's true, or is not true, what they claim about Mars....and the other planets, as well.
Stars are not endless, and millions of light years away.
Stars would blanket the sky, with starlight, in an endless universe.... Nothing would be pitch black.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: tommyjo
The windows would be fish eye'd, or some such twaddle.
Here's a little tip: buy yourself a telescope.
originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: oldcarpy
I'm not sure whether you actually believe any of the nonsense that you post or if you are just a massive troll but there are an awful lot of sites/apps that you can use that track satellites and you can use these to see them for yourself. Eg:
Live Real Time Satellite Tracking
You can even get apps on your phone. Some can be seen with the naked eye and you can use these sites to see satellites from your own location. The ISS follows a regular and predictable orbit and I have seen it with my own eyes many times.
So if these are not real, do tell - what are we seeing? Where are all those launch rockets going and what are they doing if not launching satellites into orbit?
What about weather satellites - are they fake too?
I only look at the actual evidence, that's all.
Planes can be proven, and anyone knows a plane flies, by going on a flight.
Satellites are not proven, because we can't go up there to prove it, and I don't believe claims without any valid proof.
You believe there are satellites because they claim thousands of satellites have been launched, and we can 'track' them, and we can actually 'see' them orbiting Earth with our eyes, as 'all those little lights we see crossing by, every night'...
None of that is proof, in any way, at all. It's purely 'magic', indeed.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: oldcarpy
I'm not sure whether you actually believe any of the nonsense that you post or if you are just a massive troll but there are an awful lot of sites/apps that you can use that track satellites and you can use these to see them for yourself. Eg:
Live Real Time Satellite Tracking
You can even get apps on your phone. Some can be seen with the naked eye and you can use these sites to see satellites from your own location. The ISS follows a regular and predictable orbit and I have seen it with my own eyes many times.
So if these are not real, do tell - what are we seeing? Where are all those launch rockets going and what are they doing if not launching satellites into orbit?
What about weather satellites - are they fake too?
I only look at the actual evidence, that's all.
Planes can be proven, and anyone knows a plane flies, by going on a flight.
Satellites are not proven, because we can't go up there to prove it, and I don't believe claims without any valid proof.
You believe there are satellites because they claim thousands of satellites have been launched, and we can 'track' them, and we can actually 'see' them orbiting Earth with our eyes, as 'all those little lights we see crossing by, every night'...
None of that is proof, in any way, at all. It's purely 'magic', indeed.
not that you will use common sense here, (if you did, this thread wouldn't exist) But where do you suppose Satellite Internet comes from?