ext_212097 ([identity profile] iayork.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mmcirvin 2005-08-03 08:13 pm (UTC)

Spherical Earth movies

The movie is enough to give motion sickness. Oooooog.

Actually I should ask you about this. I've been looking for something much like what I thought the balloon-cam movie would be like: A movie of a rocket launch, or something like that, that shows the Earth receding into the distance and becoming obviously spherical. William has a general understanding of the spherical Earth, but I don't think he has it in context of himself, and scale, and so on; I think showing the whole thing all together, from right on the ground to in orbit, would help get the picture across. I've poked around various satellite-imagery and space-photo sites without finding such a thing. Anything jump to mind?

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