http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/07/02/space-shuttle-atlantis-night-launch-neat-visual/ My Confined Space is an image blog with user submitted pictures of anything and everything, funny, serious or dark. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:18:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/07/02/space-shuttle-atlantis-night-launch-neat-visual/comment-page-1/#comment-197802 erophin Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:18:23 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/07/02/space-shuttle-atlantis-night-launch-neat-visual/#comment-197802 I hope u realise the impossibleness of the explanation for this picture. The sunset would never create such a shadow that reaches that far... see for ur self at sunsets what kind of shadow are there. Shadows dissipate... And, On the picture the Shuttle Atlantis is further up, then the point the shadow is pointed at... So what is creating this shadow? Perhaps the collumn of smoke, but then again the shadow would dissipate and certainly not be reaching towards the moon. I hope u realise the impossibleness of the explanation for this picture.
The sunset would never create such a shadow that reaches that far… see for ur self at sunsets what kind of shadow are there.
Shadows dissipate…
And, On the picture the Shuttle Atlantis is further up, then the point the shadow is pointed at…
So what is creating this shadow? Perhaps the collumn of smoke, but then again the shadow would dissipate and certainly not be reaching towards the moon.

]]> http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/07/02/space-shuttle-atlantis-night-launch-neat-visual/comment-page-1/#comment-49998 natakamus Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:11:12 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/07/02/space-shuttle-atlantis-night-launch-neat-visual/#comment-49998 To escape Earth's gravity and enter a state or orbiting free-fall, the space shuttle must reach a speed of 17,000 mph. At the altitude above sea level that the shuttle orbits, 200-240 miles, Earth's gravity is still very much in effect. If there were a mountain on Earth that was 200 miles high, and you were to stand on the peak, your weight would be approximately 2/3 normal. To escape Earth’s gravity and enter a state or orbiting free-fall, the space shuttle must reach a speed of 17,000 mph. At the altitude above sea level that the shuttle orbits, 200-240 miles, Earth’s gravity is still very much in effect. If there were a mountain on Earth that was 200 miles high, and you were to stand on the peak, your weight would be approximately 2/3 normal.

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