Comments by "Sebastian Nolte" (@sebastiannolte1201) on "Richard Branson reaches edge of space on Virgin Galactic flight" video.

  1. "That’s not space." Well, according to US definitions (80 km) they were in space. Not by the most used international definition (100 km). At the end it is all arbitrary and doesn't really matter. "That’s zero gravity flight." That is correct. But what does that have to do with the question "space or not space"? You can go straight up and fall down and you have a zero gravity flight. But if it reaches a certain altitude, then it is in space.
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  2. Karman Line fundamentalist? ;-)
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  3. Actually the first rich man in space was Denis Tito. And he did not just made a hop to only 86 km, but instead he was on the ISS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Tito And there were six other private astronauts (all millionairs, otherwise they could not do it) after it. This is not about Richard Bransons flight, he just was together with other employees in the first flight of his own company. The point of this is to offer a tourist attraction. You can book these flights.
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  4. They hired one of the best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan
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  5. Nobody coul hide something like that.
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  6. Well, they passed the US definition for space (80 km). And the most used 100 km defintion is also more or less arbitrary at the end, so it doesn't really matter
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  7. What do you expect to see?
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  8. "Why don't one of these billionaires put a 4k camera on the moon and pointed at the Earth so that we can see it spinning in real time." Spinning in real time? You know that the earth only makes one rotation in 24 hours? That is extremely slow, it makes no sense to put a video camera with several images per second there. "What an amazing tool to study the effects of global warming and human beings impact on the Earth. " Well, we have a tool for exactly that. There is the "Deep Space Climate Observatory " that is on the LaGrange Point 1 between earth and sun. As the name indicates, it is used for study the effects of global warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory And it has a camera on, and it takes more than 10 images per day. Or at least so many for the public and everybody can see them: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ So what do you say now? Are you not satisfied, because it is not on the moon? Or do you just say "That is fake" - then you would expose yourself. So we have cameras (another one also mentioned Himawari-8, that even takes a pictue every ten minutes) that take pictures of the earth all the time which can bee seen by everybody on the internet. But you aks for one certain other camera - why would you believe that? If they would put a camera on the moon you also wíll just say that it is fake, of course! So why do you even ask for it?
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  9.  @elaxel1469  Of course it does. Like any airplane leaves the ground, so the earth. So what do you mean with "leaving planet earth"?
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