This video provides a clear, physics-based explanation of orbital mechanics that effectively dismantles common misconceptions about spaceflight. It serves as a necessary reminder that scientific reality often defies intuitive but incorrect assumptions.
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Flat Earther FAILS at Understanding Why Rockets Don't Launch Straight UpAdded:
given that NASA is really sending people in orbit around the moon. As usual, we are shown a rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which performs the same parabolic arc that every rocket, missile, and other projectile shot into the sky does.
Rather than shooting straight upwards towards the moon, which would be They have to go into orbit.
He thinks that to get into orbit, you go straight up and then take a left. No. To get into orbit, you take off and then curve around the Earth.
The fact that he has just said, "Well, the rocket doesn't go straight up and towards the moon." is bit frankly.
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