Jesse3959
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So obviously most flat earthers say the sat picture/video feeds are just CGI generated based on known weather patterns, so I've trying to think of ways to demonstrate at a primitive level that satellites do in fact provide realtime video feeds by doing something sane that would show up in the video/picture feed.
For example, how big of a retroreflector would it take to be seen? One could be built with a bunch of space blankets (mylar) and paracord for relatively little cost.
This should show up on the L Orbit sats, if big enough.
Probably it's a no-go for the full-disc images in the USA because each pixel probably covers several miles.
The 10000x10000 pixel full disk is interesting but I think they are not covering USA.
I'm wondering if my best bet is the ISS and it's live feed, since it's so close. But tracking it would be harder, or a retroreflector would only work during a solar transit.
So perhaps a tracking spotlight during the night could blink out morse code.
Indications that something like this might work include this capture of the ISS live feed (Ha! By Jaranism who showed it in his video where he showed the ISS solar transit) - in the right-third of the picture, half way up, where the "shadow" (bright spot) is under the ISS, you can see that something flat and shiny passes under the ISS and a bright spot shows up.
That and during night views, the ISS live feed can also just faintly see the brightest of cities.
It would bring me significant pleasure to blink greetings to my flat earth friends via the ISS live feed.
For example, how big of a retroreflector would it take to be seen? One could be built with a bunch of space blankets (mylar) and paracord for relatively little cost.
This should show up on the L Orbit sats, if big enough.
Probably it's a no-go for the full-disc images in the USA because each pixel probably covers several miles.
The 10000x10000 pixel full disk is interesting but I think they are not covering USA.
I'm wondering if my best bet is the ISS and it's live feed, since it's so close. But tracking it would be harder, or a retroreflector would only work during a solar transit.
So perhaps a tracking spotlight during the night could blink out morse code.
Indications that something like this might work include this capture of the ISS live feed (Ha! By Jaranism who showed it in his video where he showed the ISS solar transit) - in the right-third of the picture, half way up, where the "shadow" (bright spot) is under the ISS, you can see that something flat and shiny passes under the ISS and a bright spot shows up.
That and during night views, the ISS live feed can also just faintly see the brightest of cities.
It would bring me significant pleasure to blink greetings to my flat earth friends via the ISS live feed.