Chinas space walks faked

Spektor · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:17

Volcs said:
Surely the fact that is being "revealed" via video sites rather than an approved source within the scientific community is enough to discredit it.

You would think but then the even fruitier fruitcakes would probably give you a wall of text about who really controls the media etc. Apparently the only people we can trust are those who own conspiracy websites and simultaneously want to save our brains from the lizardmen whilst peddling a few DVDs and Tshirts.

Ross1234 · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:19

ShakenNstirred said:
just about everything electrical you buy today is made there
so that remark is a fail

I thought the quality stuff was made in korea

Raumarik · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:32

If the bubbles are debris and it's that common, the astronauts would have been shredded by it in minutes.

ChrisJSY · 26 Apr 2009 at 20:35

andi said:
At exactly the right speed? And why doesn't it move in the shot?

I don't know if it is faked, seems a bit far fetched that they would, but I don't think its as easy to explain as that..

touch said:
The only thing that i find strange about the video is the position of the earth. I've never tried flying a space craft but i'd imagine that its quite difficult to get perfectly stable at the speed its going and surely even a few degrees of rotation would be noticeable because of the distance away from earth?
Even "fixed orbit" satellites are not perfectly stationary and "wobble" a bit iirc (may be wrong about this though)

That may be so if people manually flew shuttles/rockets in to space, they don't. It's all pre-planned, they're just along for the ride and do the RPM/re-entry etc.

To maintain orbit you have to reach a fast enough speed/altitude as to not fall back to earth and if too fast, break free from the chains of our planet!

The shuttle is "constantly" falling but moving so fast it's keeps an altitude, I don't even know how to explain it properly.

What I'm saying is very basic, just to make things a little clearer, also the fact they are so many miles above our atmosphere you won't see much "wobble" or movement of the earth, that just doesn't even make sense.
No wobble here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSnOiMVfHk

Kami said:
If the bubbles are debris and it's that common, the astronauts would have been shredded by it in minutes.

Debris originating from the craft/clothing/tools/packaging/paintwork whatever you want to call it there's bound to be some.

SourChipmunk · 26 Apr 2009 at 21:11

Volcs said:
Surely the fact that is being "revealed" via video sites rather than an approved source within the scientific community is enough to discredit it.

I feel the same way. Since it hasn't been mentioned by Snopes, the Bad Astronomer, or ATS yet, I would say it's just another effort being thrown out there to get people to argue. Well, they got some attention.

Hamzter · 26 Apr 2009 at 21:20

Kami said:
If the bubbles are debris and it's that common, the astronauts would have been shredded by it in minutes.

They're not going to be shredded by their own derbis, since it's moving the same speed as them, it's debris from other craft they have to worry about, which could be travelling at thousands of mph relative to them.