ISS: Finally starting to take shape!

[ckikilwai]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxaNIfHnQVU&mode=related&search=<br /><br />*Sigh*<br /><br />A video on youtube which says that there were UFO's behind the space station.<br />4,842 views and 14 times favorited.<br />And 12 brainless comments like<br />"This is amazing! This is no space junk the world needs to open there eyes because NASA is lieing."<br /><br />I posted some common sense...<br /><br />Are most people really so dumb? <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" />

 

[JonClarke]

Tragic isn't it? Here, in the first years of the 21st century, more than a dozen nations are cooperating to build the most massive structure in space to date. A space station that is already a thing of awe and beauty, that will be the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon. And what we get is cerebral midgets yabbering about UFOs and NASA lying.<br /><br />Jon <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>

 

[bobblebob]

Dont bothering trying to reason with the youtube replies, there all idiots who post on there who cant even spell<br /><br />Out of interest, what was it that was seen on the video falling away from the ISS? Assuming its not aliens capturing the station <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[bobblebob]

What i also find tragic is NASA with help from the rest of the world are building mans greatest achievement in the modern era. This massive structure is being built, in space!<br /><br />But do we see it coverered on the news, do we hell. Nothing at all is reported about it (well certaining in the UK that is, not sure if its the same in the US?). I bet the average person on the street doesnt know what is currently being built right above their heads

 

[MeteorWayne]

Jon,<br />I don't think it will be brighter than Venus at it's best, though it could give Jupiter a tough battle. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

That's why I make such an effort to know when it will be visible and tell everyone I run into. (I'm well known as "that astronomy guy" from the beer store, to the corner deli, to the gas station.)<br /><br />The more people that know about such things, the more support we might get for space. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

You too, shuttle_guy <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[bobblebob]

Ive got a couple of friend into all things space by telling them about the missions <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[bdewoody]

I loaded one of the high res images of the ISS as my computer wallpaper at work and got a couple of responses that it couldn't be the real thing because there were no stars in the background.<br /><br />My response to that was the lack of stars had to do with relative brightness and the exposure time. Was I correct? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[ckikilwai]

Yes, you were exactly right.<br />it's the same for the pictures of the apollo astronauts on the moon.<br /><br />The Bad astronomy website also explains why this is:<br />http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars<br />