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To put this in perspective, if the average school room globe diameter is 0.3 meters, Alans peak elevation was 0.97 millimeters above the surface of the globe...
by djb_hackernews 12y ago
To put this in perspective, if the average school room globe diameter is 0.3 meters, Alans peak elevation was 0.97 millimeters above the surface of the globe...
- ryandrake 12y ago1/8 of the way to the height of the International Space Station's orbit, which would be 7.8mm from the surface of your globe.
- joeevans1000 12y agoAnd for the non-metric... he went less than a 16th of an inch above a globe about a foot in diameter. It's amazing how thin our shell of sustainable atmosphere is. There was a lot that annoyed me about the RedBull promo jump, a whole lot, but the most annoying thing is how they misrepresented his view using fisheye lenses to make it look as though the horizon curved radically for him. They wanted viewers to think he was in outer space, in that regard. If you watch the RedBull footage, you can see when this phony effect gets turned upside down when he was upside down; in that case the earth curved radically the other way.
- jonah 12y agoI doubt the distortion was intentional, I feel like going back to see what cameras they used but most action cams (GoPro, etc.) have cheap fisheye wide angle lenses rather than more expensive (and complex) rectilinear ones which would represent the horizon correctly.