I think the ISS is real. I think they make fake videos for convenience or something. Too expensive to really keep people up there maybe...
You can find video tours of the ISS where they take you through every room and angle of the place with people floating around in the background at any weird angle.
That said, these videos they put out now literally have people hanging on wires.. They're visible at times. Objects pass through their bodies or just plain blink out of existence. There's videos where they supposedly have a delay due to the distance, but someone on earth makes a joke and the astronaut busts out laughing instantly...
These videos are definitely screwy, but there are others that look pretty accurate. Higher budget? Maybe, but the ISS tour videos you can find on YouTube look pretty real to me.
Compelling pictures? You try to track an object moving at the equivalent of Mach 25 and take a picture of it. And through atmospheric murk, to boot. The orbit is known. It should be available in any amateur astronomy magazine. Viewing is probably best near sunrise or dusk, when the sky background is black but there is sunlight to illuminate the station. Midday is no good (sky is too bright). Night is no good (in Earth's shadow). You can probably see it with the naked eye, but shooting a photo on the fly is a lot harder.
I am open minded. But if there is no ISS, how can you make sure no one trains their telescopes towards it and find out?
That said, I dont seem to be able to find out that many compelling pictures. They all seem to say how hard it is to track it and take pictures of it.
I found this: http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/International_Space_Station/Your_International_Space_Station_photos
Nothing there is compelling evidence that its a space station.
I think the ISS is real. I think they make fake videos for convenience or something. Too expensive to really keep people up there maybe...
You can find video tours of the ISS where they take you through every room and angle of the place with people floating around in the background at any weird angle.
That said, these videos they put out now literally have people hanging on wires.. They're visible at times. Objects pass through their bodies or just plain blink out of existence. There's videos where they supposedly have a delay due to the distance, but someone on earth makes a joke and the astronaut busts out laughing instantly...
These videos are definitely screwy, but there are others that look pretty accurate. Higher budget? Maybe, but the ISS tour videos you can find on YouTube look pretty real to me.
Compelling pictures? You try to track an object moving at the equivalent of Mach 25 and take a picture of it. And through atmospheric murk, to boot. The orbit is known. It should be available in any amateur astronomy magazine. Viewing is probably best near sunrise or dusk, when the sky background is black but there is sunlight to illuminate the station. Midday is no good (sky is too bright). Night is no good (in Earth's shadow). You can probably see it with the naked eye, but shooting a photo on the fly is a lot harder.