Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, October 8th, 2010 at 7:50 am
It’s amazing to me that we live in a world where kids can send a camera to space and verify it’s round, yet there are people who still believe the world is flat because their holy book says so.
Sorry Pete, but 100,000 feet up is mid-stratospheric, not space (and one can observe the curvature of the Earth from a much lower altitude). 100,000 meters (i.e., 100km or Kármán line) up is space (the approximate boundary at which any vehicle must travel faster than escape velocity to achieve sufficient aerodynamic lift).
Still, impressive.
Wes says:
I don’t know of any religion whose scripture says the world is flat. Do you?
Mark says:
Sorry Pete, but 100,000 feet up is mid-stratospheric, not space (and one can observe the curvature of the Earth from a much lower altitude). 100,000 meters (i.e., 100km or Kármán line) up is space (the approximate boundary at which any vehicle must travel faster than escape velocity to achieve sufficient aerodynamic lift).
Still, impressive.
Wes says:
I don’t know of any religion whose scripture says the world is flat. Do you?
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