Why does the ISS live feed point directly at the ground? ( conspiracy )

submitted by SaveTheChildren

Doesn't it make sense to give a view of the EARTH? As in, the big sphere thing we live on, according to common knowledge today?

I mean, a satellite image of the ocean with clouds and stuff is kinda cool, but it makes no sense to focus the live stream on anything other than a beautiful shot of the curvature of the earth... It makes no sense.

Atarian

You, @savethechildren , are definitely a shill. Is there a retarded conspiracy that you don't claim to subscribe to?

How about reptilians controlling the world? Bill Hicks didn't die and is actually Alex Jones? Nazi empires in Antarctica? London buses found on the moon? Jesuit semen bombs exploding over Canada?

Gr8 b8, m8.

SaveTheChildren

You're the one with those crazy ones. Not me.

Tancred

Savethechildren is here to waste our time.

Atarian

I think you're right there.

Let's ignore the shill and get back to trying to find the truth.

Atarian

Because the earth is flat and it's all fake, obviously.

/s

SaveTheChildren

That's not what I'm claiming at all.

SaveTheChildren

I don't see anything right now, but that was what I think I was referencing. It just showed a stream of the ground...

Btw, once you see that the NASA logo has a serpant's tongue you will always see it there.

Fateswebb

I see this video, not sure which you're looking at, but my question would be more, why can I not see a single star in the sky? http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream

SaveTheChildren

So there are different videos, but none are satisfying at all... None of them are what you would imagine would be the most obvious shot of all, just a nice big beautiful stream of our mother earth.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/99929360

Just look at this one, for instance.

WTF is this shit NASA????

Where is the good footage?

The only thing you will ever see is just a fixed curve on the screen, with landscape floating on by. It's the kind of shit that could be faked by a skilled middleschooler.

Fateswebb

Well this is a save copy of it. And an hour in it has the same view as the one i showed. But again, where are the stars? How is it you can't see a single star?

SaveTheChildren

Yeah, I have no idea where all the stars are.

SaveTheChildren

I agree.

People will say that it's because the earth is so bright.

I'm not sure how that really addresses the issue, though. Since there should be no atmosphere for the light from earth to interfere with the light of distant stars, if the camera can pick up a distant star without earth being lit, then it still should be able to pick it up when the earth is lit. The light won't interact in space... It's a vacuum.

BoraxTheFungarian

Nothing to reflect off of, no visible light. Would appear as an infintismally small prick in your eye... Atoeast this is the explanation in my head.

SaveTheChildren

So, I could see them needing 2 different cameras, one to focus on the earth, and one to focus on the stars, but there should be no reason they don't do that! Just have two cameras. On one camera focus on as much of good ol' earth as you can. With the other, focus on the stars and block the light from the earth. Show the feeds separate and together.

This makes too much sense, though, for NASA.