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Dark Star 1 year ago Even with a 'fish-eye' (curvilinear) lens you can still reliably see the curvature by noting what the actual distortion of the lens is (and with software you can completely reverse it). I go into the details here both on the lens side and calculating the estimated size of the horizon sagitta - where you draw a line between the two edges of the horizon and measure the height of the hump to most distant horizon point. Since the horizon is a circle with radius ~1426 miles and from 249 miles we're viewing the edge from about a 20 degree angle that means that it appears as part of an ellipse. flatearthinsanity.blogspot.com... Curvilinear lenses essentially bend everything outwards from the center so as long as your curvature is going the OPPOSITE direction of this distortion - and you can still observe the curvature - then you have a winner. Even without correction (as I show above). Right around 2:04 I think we see the best evidence for curvature. Real quick estimate: 1314720 feet up, 1729 pixels across the window view, ~60 degree FOV through the window. The estimated size of the curvature hump (or sagitta, ) gives about 84 pixels: www.metabunk.org... I counted that at about 88 pixels by fitting an Ellipse to the curvature to help compensate for the atmospheric distortion along the horizon and then measuring the pixels of the 'hump' (hard to tell exactly where the edge is so we're +/- probably 5 or so pixels). So I would say that this view is very consistent with the expected view from 249 miles up and therefore this image, even if it has SOME lens distortion, is very close to what we would expect to see with our eyes. In contrast, you can see that when the 'upside down' Earth is lower in the image we see some exaggeration of the curvature. In this case you would need to correct any lens distortion before using it for estimates. To do that RIGHT you need to know the exact lens (and settings on that lens, aperture, focal length, etc) that was used and get the corrections from a database but so long as things are going through the center they aren't very distorted. Hope that helps.
originally posted by: heineken
In the video we can see Bush entering the scene and in the background there is what looks like to be faking ISS activity using green screen.
originally posted by: heineken
just wow found another interesting video ...
originally posted by: tommyjo
Nothing remarkable about it. It is just a floating strap. It is just ridiculous non-sense to claim that he is suspended by it!
See Metabunk link for further details.
Metabunk Link