Comment on The End of an Era

• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, definitions are arbitrary but that is the definition of space.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One can be simultaneously on earth, and in space. In fact we all are

    But I’m just arguing that while orbiting earth and being within the Earth’s atmosphere, it’s pretty much still on Earth. Just like you’re still at home even if you’re at the on the yard or even just outside the gate picking up mail from the mailbox. Looking at it from distance, it really doesn’t make difference

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    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m also orbiting the sun, ergo, I am a planet

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      • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s not like citizenship you don’t get to be a planet just because your mom is.

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But you are also spinning around (with) the earth, so wouldn’t that make you a moon?

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      • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Plus you’ve got nippes so you can be milked.

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Look at Mr “hasn’t cleared his orbit” over here getting all up in Plutos face. Neptune is being real quiet right now.

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re part of a planet for sure :)

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What does “ISS” stand for again? I forgot.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Imperial Starship. Wait, wrong comm.

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  • TaTTe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Islamic State of Syria

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  • FundMECFS@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    International Space Station

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Karman Line’s lowest theoretical point is still substantially higher up than commercial airplanes and its highest is substantially lower than the ISS. Most nations agree on it as the boundary for the purposes of law and regulation. Commercial airplanes fly about half as high as the line, while spacecraft orbit at four times its altitude or more.

  It may be scientifically arbitrary, but it’s got a lot going for it as a rough approximation.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My favorite fact is that earth’s atmosphere extends 95,000 miles / 150,000 km beyond the moon.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I couldn’t find any source for that, but exosphere is considered to extend to 10,000km or 190,000km, from which the latter is about halfway to the moon.

    Anyways those numbers are pretty damn tiny even on a small solar system scale

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thank you for the accents

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hére, håvē ßòmê mõrë.

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