Does this help ? I find it quite misleading as it looks like ISS is visible on a moon scale which isn't. It's visible because its far more closer than the moon
I see your point, but it’s fiction anyway, so I care less. I have a vague sense of how big the ISS is, so seeing it as a dot near a celestial body that we see in the sky all the time really sells the distances for me. If it had been a dot against Jupiter, for example, it wouldn’t have worked for me.
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eaterofclowns@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 78d
What's the bigger one on the left
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 78d
"That's no space station... It's a... moon?!?"
CelloMike@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
Scientists are still trying to work that one out
orenj@leminal.space · 3 pts · 78d
i think it's god, we must sacrifice to appease it otherwise it will eat our space station
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 78d
Egg
Fives@discuss.online · 8 pts · 78d
This is something that I wish they would do in Sci-Fi more often to help give a sense of scale to things.
roux2scour@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 78d
Does this help ? I find it quite misleading as it looks like ISS is visible on a moon scale which isn't. It's visible because its far more closer than the moon
Fives@discuss.online · 2 pts · 77d
I see your point, but it’s fiction anyway, so I care less. I have a vague sense of how big the ISS is, so seeing it as a dot near a celestial body that we see in the sky all the time really sells the distances for me. If it had been a dot against Jupiter, for example, it wouldn’t have worked for me.
frog@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 78d
Ugh... I gotta clean my phone screen. I was like, "there are several dots in the picture though." Nope. It was dust.
festnt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 77d
oh no its gonna crash into the moon
Hoimo@ani.social · 2 pts · 77d
Nah, it only looks like that, but see how much smaller the ISS is than the moon? That's because it's much further away from us.
waldfee@feddit.org · 2 pts · 77d
https://www.xkcd.com/1830/
ooterness@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
Doubt.