Flat Earth Brothers #fundie

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The SpaceX live feed footage made it appear that the rocket turned sideways and then went straight down. I assumed it was just the camera angle. However, footage taken from a nearby highway proves it did in fact go straight back down. If it were following the curve of the earth like planes are said to be doing, it would appear to be flying straight like planes do when flying with the "curve." However, unlike planes, Rockets don't have wings, rudders, or ability to adjust the trim to stay straight and level. I mean curved and arched lol. Once they tip over they have no choice but to go straight back down to the ocean.

Many are commenting that I'm not aware of how rockets get to space. I am aware of this process, but if you take a screenshot at 2:35 in the video and then use a program that allows you to drag a picture of the ball earth into the curved flight path, you will reveal that the earth is really tiny or the rocket did fly into the ocean as it appears. Here is a link to a video where I admit to being wrong about the flight path. It proves the globe model as well ?? https://youtu.be/9Rx6_ynBtNM
Please refrain from using bad language. It doesn't make you look any smarter although it does make you look cool in certain crowds :)

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old comment by Zinnia

I admit to having never seen a rocket flight video... imagining it in my head... figuring out how the flight path should go... adjusting for the spin of the Earth... huh, it looks like it *would* appear to go kind of "downward" after a point. That's interesting, I never thought of that. Admittedly that was kind of difficult to simulate it in my head and probably some people couldn't do it, but more evidence that flat earthers either don't have much imagination or don't take all the variables in account. Probably both.

[After watching video, which has flat-earther commentary] Oh my god you dumbass, yes it sort of looks like it's going downward but it's clearly still heading further away from the surface, what the hell is wrong with you. Oh wait, you're assuming the Earth is fixed in place and doesn't spin, plus you have a bad sense of curvature and depth, I forgot.

old comment by Raspberry

However, unlike planes, Rockets don't have wings, rudders, or ability to adjust the trim to stay straight and level. I mean curved and arched lol. Once they tip over they have no choice but to go straight back down to the ocean.

I'm not bothering to watch that crap, so it's my own fault if I'm criticizing out of context, but anyway ...

Rockets, depending on their purpose, can steer through the use of gimbaled engines using articulated exhaust nozzles and planar fins to "adjust their trim" in flight. As engine control technology advanced we were able to eliminate the planar fins and precisely steer solely through computer controlled gimbaled thrust. This includes the ability to maintain a near horizontal flight trajectory as they approach LEO without losing altitude, the ignorance of which many of these flat earth cranks are hanging their hats on.

During the return stage of SpaceX's Falcon boosters they literally do have "wings, rudders, or ability to adjust the trim". They use cold gas thrusters to initially reorient the boosters, perform a brief soft burn to set the trajectory towards the landing pad, and then guide the descent by articulating a set of Grid Fins that we've been using for guidance on descent for rockets and bombs, literally "adjusting the trim" on some designs since the 1970s.

Many are commenting that I'm not aware of how rockets get to space. I am aware of this process, ...

If you say so. image

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old comment by Anon-e-moose

unlike planes, Rockets don't have wings, rudders, or ability to adjust the trim to stay straight and level

In some Apollo - and Space Shuttle - launches, one could see in closeups the engines, once ignited, moving slightly prior to liftoff.

And have you actually studied pictures of the first stage of a Saturn V? What are those things slightly above said main engines...?!

Dr. Buzz Aldrin, and John Carmack would like a word with you: and the latter founder & former CEO of id Software - now Chief Programmer with Oculus VR - intends to be an amateur astronaut.

Even the first South African in space - and creator of Ubuntu - Mark Shuttleworth, as part of his cosmonaut training at Star City, will have studied the intricacies of the vehicle that took him up to the International Space Station: the Soyuz T-34.