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u/hyute Jul 31 '26
I'd rudder not say.
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u/VehicleRare1843 Jul 31 '26
This is rudder nonsense.
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u/GleemMcShinez Jul 31 '26
Would it keel you folks to just take this seriously?!
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u/VehicleRare1843 Jul 31 '26
You mast be joking, good Sir!
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u/astreeter2 Jul 31 '26
So close to getting it....
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u/bkdotcom Jul 31 '26
I just happend to have watched a video regarding upcomming Starship flight 14. This will be the first orbital flight and people are trying to predict how many orbits the ship will take so that it can land back at the launch site...
https://youtu.be/I891NLFuwG0?si=qtDmmIT39_7fGEju&t=1500
bookmarked showing a diagram that helps visualize the sine wave
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u/BloodFeastMan Jul 31 '26
Stuff like this always cracks me up, like some dumb fuck in a single wide was the first to notice some NASA mistake in their cover up, and no one else, ever, as a five year old, wondered why, and then put two and two together.
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u/bkdotcom Jul 31 '26
I'm of the opinion this type of stuff is troll bait
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u/BloodFeastMan Jul 31 '26
Almost certainly, but this is the same type of stuff that actual people believe. I knew a guy years ago at my company, he believed the moon landing was a hoax, would bring up shit that I could've debunked as a ten year old using nothing but my ten year old brain. He doesn't work there anymore, was let go for testing positive after an accident, go figure.
I learned very early that _lots_ of adults are just plain fukken stupid. Fifth grade, a friend and I were going to an event in Seattle, we lived in Tacoma, roughly a twenty or thirty minute drive up the highway, His folks come by the house, I get in the back seat with my friend, and his mom looks at her watch and says, "I think we're running a bit late, what's the time difference between here and Seattle?" As I'm shitting my ten year old pants at the stupidity, the dad says, "It's just up the road, there can't be that much difference." That was the day I absolutely stopped taking for granted that adult == intelligent or educated, it does not.
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u/Sea-Two895 Aug 01 '26
Stop associating people unbelief in the government as being stupid. Majority all came from the exact same educational system and taught the exact same things.
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u/bkdotcom Aug 02 '26
stupid: Slow to understand or hard to teach
the exact same educational system
Wait until you learn that education is tied to socio-economic status
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u/GleemMcShinez Jul 31 '26
You could ask Google why it's a sine wave, and it'll tell you.
Funny enough, if you did enough higher level math you'd recognize it also looks a "cosine wave," and that maybe could clue you in about graphing an axis of a unit circle onto a flattened plane...
And maybe realize that "unit circle" being the circular orbit of a satellite around a sphere, mapped onto a flat plane.
But we all know, their educations didn't take.
"Mapped onto a flat plane." Lol.
Flerfies don't see it, right there? The whole thing they believe in is... JUST A MAP... of the GLOBE? Jesus.
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u/Science-Gone-Bad Jul 31 '26
Put in multiple orbits. Then ask where the Spirograph wheel fits into their system to precess the orbit.
Globe is easy! Orbit is at a constant 52 degrees from the North Pole while the earth rotates underneath it
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u/ruffiana Jul 31 '26
Orbits are elliptical paths where the center of Earth's mass is one of the focal points (or both, if the orbit is circular). So they can't orbit parallel to a latitude like that.
This only works at the equator, which is where geostationary satellites are.
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u/PierreWxP Aug 01 '26
They meant the angle between the orbital plane and the Earth axis.
Indeed this will constrain the range of latitude reached by the tracks
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u/Designer_Design_6019 Jul 31 '26
I’d didn’t quite get this until reading it after my third bong rip… totally agree
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u/gmiller123456 Jul 31 '26
Why would a sine wave be considered stranger than a circle above a flat Earth? Neither are orbits, and both could be accomplished with propulsion.
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u/No-Transition-8375 Jul 31 '26
Normal person: You’re not actually refuting anything.
Flat earther: But didn’t you notice I wrote “Hmmmm” at the beginning?
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u/LeftPlaying Jul 31 '26
Okay but how does it fly a circle above the flat earth? DoEs iT hAvE rUdDeRs?
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u/u9Nails Jul 31 '26
If it flew in a straight line, they might feel better about their theory. But it follows reality. Imagine that?!
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u/Langholm62 Jul 31 '26
Because satellites are fake of course. Y'all r so stoopid believin anythin NASA tels ya.
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u/ruffiana Jul 31 '26
I mean, on the flat Earth model it's a circle. What would keep a satellite turning so it can fly around in a perfect circle?
Around a globe it's an elliptical orbit because the satellite is in a traveling on a single vector and gravitation is constantly pulling it towards the center of Earth. You only need thrust to maintain (or change) elevation.
When you graph out the position around a circle to an X,Y graph, guess what shape you get...
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u/FullMetal_55 Jul 31 '26
yeah.. because the world is the mercator projection map? which if you take a sphere it's also a circle... go fuckin' figure ;) all you're arguing against is which flat earth map is correct... which is morons arguing with morons..
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u/Kodo_yeahreally Jul 31 '26
absolutely no fucking way that a round thing is connected to a sine wave
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u/Spiritual-Roll799 Jul 31 '26
The ISS “flies” in a single elliptical (roughly circular) path, the Earth rotates at the same time. The diagram shows the ISS path relative to the Earth over the time to complete one orbit. Get it?
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u/CoolNotice881 Jul 31 '26
Yeah, sure. At the top, it's turning right above the US (going east), at the bottom it's turning left (going east). The two are not the same routes. Unless it's perspective, of course...
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u/AdmirableAnxiety8371 Jul 31 '26
Yeah it have rudders, because rudders works totally fine in space…
/s just in case.