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Please don't trust ChatGPT. It's got the right orders of magnitude, which is lucky, but it's still giving you the wrong numbers. If the earth were 1.5m in diam
by wizzwizz4 2y ago
Please don't trust ChatGPT. It's got the right orders of magnitude, which is lucky, but it's still giving you the wrong numbers.
If the earth were 1.5m in diameter, the space station would be proportionally 12.83µm long[0], orbiting at a distance of 50.66mm (2 inches)[1].
[0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=iss+length+%2F+earth+diameter+*+1.5m https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=iss+length+%2F+earth+di...
[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=iss+height+%2F+earth+diameter+*+1.5m https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=iss+height+%2F+earth+di...