Flat Earther spends $20,000 on DIY experiment that accidentally proved the planet is ROUND
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The photos 60 years ago were photos. Digital imagery didn't exist back then. You are kind of dating your own ignorance. How old are you, anyway?
No. That is the dumbass explanation.
The Apollo program photos were real. After the Apollo program, we weren't going high enough to get a whole-Earth photo (this was corrected with the recent Artemis flight, which took a picture of the Earth). Take a basketball, which has a 75 cm circumference (23.8 cm diameter). At that scale, a 250-km high orbit would be tantamount to a distance from the ball of about half a centimeter (or 0.18 inch). Put your eye at that distance and tell me how much of the ball you can see. Hardly any of it. That is the problem. So what NASA does is take pictures in a swath along the path of the satellite and then digitally "stitch" the images together on a spherical surface. (Be mindful of the fact that this technique would be impossible for a flat Earth.) Consider it a photo-mosaic. It is done all the time with high-altitude photography.
These are not images that are taken from the theoretical reference position in space, but they are not "fake" either. The land forms and the weather are quite real and accurate.
So, don't accuse others of being a "dumbass" when you own ass is on display.