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Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?

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Roundy the Truthinessist

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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #30 on: April 19, 2007, 10:29:41 AM »
I too have seen satellites with the naked eye.  I guess the FES-related question is, are these really satellites, or are they helium balloons, or something planted there by the Conspiracy to look like satellites?  Because really, to the naked eye, they're nothing more than blinking lights in the sky.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #31 on: April 19, 2007, 11:36:00 AM »
Quote from: spherehead on April 19, 2007, 08:48:24 AM
my father remembers watching Sputnik go by in 1957, he said it was just like a faint star moving across the night sky.
Your father must have some damn good eyes.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #32 on: April 19, 2007, 11:37:38 AM »
Quote from: TheEngineer on April 19, 2007, 11:36:00 AM
Quote from: spherehead on April 19, 2007, 08:48:24 AM
my father remembers watching Sputnik go by in 1957, he said it was just like a faint star moving across the night sky.
Your father must have some damn good eyes.
Like a hawk!
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #33 on: April 19, 2007, 11:43:24 AM »
Quote from: TheEngineer on April 19, 2007, 11:36:00 AM
Quote from: spherehead on April 19, 2007, 08:48:24 AM
my father remembers watching Sputnik go by in 1957, he said it was just like a faint star moving across the night sky.
Your father must have some damn good eyes.
Thats why God invented glasses.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #34 on: April 19, 2007, 11:48:53 AM »
Those must be some damn good glasses.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #35 on: April 19, 2007, 11:49:17 AM »
Where can I get some?
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #36 on: April 19, 2007, 11:54:03 AM »
Quote from: TheEngineer on April 19, 2007, 11:48:53 AM
Those must be some damn good glasses.
20/20 is all you need.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #37 on: April 19, 2007, 11:56:51 AM »
You need really good glasses.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #38 on: April 19, 2007, 12:00:36 PM »
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Quote from: TheEngineer on April 19, 2007, 11:48:53 AM
Those must be some damn good glasses.
20/20 is all you need.
How big do you think sputnik was?
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #39 on: April 19, 2007, 12:01:31 PM »
Big enough that you could see it passing by with the naked eye! ::)
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #40 on: April 19, 2007, 12:25:58 PM »
It was the size of a basketball.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #41 on: April 19, 2007, 12:26:34 PM »
Really? Wow then that person's dad must have amazing eyes!!
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #42 on: April 19, 2007, 12:30:03 PM »
Like I said.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #43 on: April 19, 2007, 12:31:25 PM »
How come you know so much?
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #44 on: April 19, 2007, 12:34:35 PM »
'Cause I am teh man!
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #45 on: April 19, 2007, 12:36:36 PM »
Its spelt "the"!

And no you're not, you just seem to have accumulated a lot of useless knowledge somehow...
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #46 on: April 19, 2007, 12:37:01 PM »
Right that's it, TheEngineer's account has been hijacked. He made a funny..
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #47 on: April 19, 2007, 12:40:13 PM »
I honestly thought I had heard stories about Sputnik being visible to the naked eye.  Apparently I'm right, but it's just one of those things that people aren't remembering correctly.  Here's a page with a possible explanation:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0473.html

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It is unlikely that it would have been seen by the unaided eye. However it was
accompanied into orbit by its last stage rocket - quoted as being 28 metres
long,
which would have been very visible to the naked eye, and is therefore a likely
candidate for what the public remember as having seen.

Sputnik itself was still visible with a simple pair of binoculars, but would have looked like the faintest star in the sky, according to another reference I found.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #48 on: April 19, 2007, 12:45:39 PM »
Weak sauce people.  One can see the light from satellites at night.   
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #49 on: April 19, 2007, 12:46:12 PM »
I like a nice strong sauce...Especially on my chips.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #50 on: April 19, 2007, 12:49:07 PM »
Not a fan of most sauces
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #51 on: April 19, 2007, 12:50:24 PM »
I've got a nice home-made sauce I just know you'd love..
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #52 on: April 19, 2007, 12:57:24 PM »
Ew that's nasty.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #53 on: April 19, 2007, 01:34:33 PM »
To the OP:

I've flown on commercial airlines many times and never seen the Earth's curvature (as you can imagine, I have specifically looked for it instead of giving a cursory glance).

Incidentally though, that the Earth appears flat from an aeroplane is neither here nor there - even if the Earth was round, the curvature would still not be visible (the average passenger plane flies at 40000 feet - the diameter of the Earth in RET is around 8000 miles).
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #54 on: April 19, 2007, 04:58:07 PM »
Quote from: TheEngineer on April 19, 2007, 12:25:58 PM
It was the size of a basketball.


Which was my point at the start of the last page, only Engineer was nice enough to spell it out for the rest of you
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #55 on: April 19, 2007, 05:15:44 PM »
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Really? Wow then that person's dad must have amazing eyes!!

didn't it have a light on it?
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #56 on: April 19, 2007, 05:18:06 PM »
I don't know
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #57 on: April 19, 2007, 05:24:53 PM »
wait, here we go.....read the paragraph titled "mission" of this wiki page. It mentions about the visibility of the satellite and its rocket booster, which also achieved orbit. What my dad, and millions of other people around the world, actually saw was most likely the rocket booster, which was much more visible than the basketball sized satellite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #58 on: April 19, 2007, 05:28:46 PM »
As I pointed out 12 POSTS AGO.
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Re: Has anyone here ever flown in a plane?
« Reply #59 on: April 19, 2007, 05:29:08 PM »
Then surely you should have said he saw the rocket booster?

I'm just being obtuse now...
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