• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Yeah that’s called Kármán line, but it’s just arbitrary line. ISS is still orbiting within Earth’s thermosphere

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      19 minutes ago

      My favorite fact is that earth’s atmosphere extends 95,000 miles / 150,000 km beyond the moon.

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        5 minutes ago

        I couldn’t find any source for that, but exosphere is considered to extend to 10,000km or 190,000km, from which the latter is about halfway to the moon.

        Anyways those numbers are pretty damn tiny even on a small solar system scale

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        1 hour ago

        One can be simultaneously on earth, and in space. In fact we all are

        But I’m just arguing that while orbiting earth and being within the Earth’s atmosphere, it’s pretty much still on Earth. Just like you’re still at home even if you’re at the on the yard or even just outside the gate picking up mail from the mailbox. Looking at it from distance, it really doesn’t make difference