The wrong proportions
The photo above is from an article titled “Astronaut Chris Hadfield on Creating Out of This World Images“. I’m not linking it here because links from my website have often caused evidence to be removed.
It represents thousands of NASA photos that are out of proportion.Florida here, is the size of entire continent. Even when we take perspective and angle into account: If that is the real curvature of the Earth, Florida should be much smaller. Either the photo is fake, created in Photoshop. Or the photo is real and the curvature was artificially added.
One more example: Search “Lake Tahoe from Space” and you get this:
To see how ridiculously big the lake is here, compared to the curvature, here is a screenshot I took of the lake from Google Earth:
Can’t see it? That’s because it’s a tiny dot between California and Nevada. If you follow the curvature to its conclusion with your imagination, you realize the photo fakers don’t understand proportion. If you were that close up to Lake Tahoe, from the air, you wouldn’t see a curvature. If you’re going to fake photos, the least you could do is hire professionals to do it.
This image shows almost the entire globe in full. Here, Italy is taking up as much space as an entire continent.
The caption reads: “Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is sharing images and video of planet Earth taken by a commercial grade Raspberry Pi and camera”.
Sure thing. Trust me bro.
Fact is, they don’t put much care into faking photos because they know 99.9% of humanity won’t notice. And the 0.1% who do notice are easily ignored.
Keeping it Vague
This is the first picture from space, taken by Americans in 1946 with a V-2 rocket built by the Nazis:
The first color photo of Earth from 600 miles above it:
If you put “600 miles above Earth” into a search engine you’ll find that most photos show a globe or a much larger curvature than this photo. I guess they can’t decide how much of a curve there is at this height.
I took a screenshot of this Virgin Galactic flight at 46 miles height.
Notice anything? Yeah, the Earth has a similar curvature to the photo at 600 mile height. If any of this were legit, you’d see a difference between 46 miles and 600 miles.
When a group of people commit a crime, one of the first thing the group leader tells them is “Get your stories straight!“. The stories need to match.
Here’s an article for you to look through, titled “Earth seen from Space“. The photos in the article, claimed to be taken from space stations, are mostly vague – you can’t make out specific continents or places.
A sample:
The majority of “photos from space” keep it vague. This prevents follies like the out-of-proportion images we just saw.
The exception to this are whole-earth images, which do show continent outlines.
They don’t know what Earth looks like
But they can’t make up their mind’s on what Earth looks like from different distances.
A Google search for Earth from 1000 miles brings up all kinds of shapes as well as results from “1 Million miles away”.
No conclusions can be made from this.
A Google search on Earth from 800 miles brings up similar. Again, they show “Earth from a Million miles away” (as if they knew). But what about 800 miles? The photo in the upper right corner shows us 850 miles above, supposedly. The images from 1 million miles away are designed on a CGI illustrator.
Earth from 600 miles on a Google Search shows that one vague photo and again the “Million mile” view. Isn’t it strange? They show us a Million mile view over and over, but almost nothing closer.
You’d think that all those rockets and satellites might have taken a proper photo of Earth, but no.
A search of photos of earth from 400 miles above shows us the globe view. We learned it’s Earth from a Million miles far away, but here it says it’s actually only 400 miles away. See upper right corner, first result. The second result, the photo right beside it, contradicts it. And this is what they call “science”.
A Google search on Earth photos from 200 miles once again reveals the whole globe (result 5). Other than that, the photos are fairly consistent for the first time. Maybe we’re getting closer to reality.
But then, from a 100 miles we again get the entire globe (first and last image second row), old pictures from 1946 and little else. Just when I thought we were seeing some consistency.
80 miles is almost exclusively old photos. Why do they have more photos from 200 miles up than 80?
Yes, I realize Google search isn’t perfect. But the inconsistency is remarkable. I found that NASA hasn’t catalogued what Earth looks like from different distances. They have no clue what the Earth looks like!
Here at 60 miles above Earth we are back to what it’s supposed to look like 1 Million miles away and 200 miles away.
Finally, here’s from 50 miles above the Earth. Still keeping it vague.
When does Photography become Cartoon?
On Google Earth you’ll notice a point when real photography turns into cartoon, the more you Zoom out.
I picked a random place on the Globe, somewhere in Ireland, to demonstrate this:
This is real photography.
This is still real photography, albeit with two different cameras.
Zooming out even more, this is still real photography but I’m not sure about those outlines at the coast.
I’d say this is still largely real photography because when you zoom in on the screenshot, you see the detail features.
Not sure about the ocean and islands which are starting to look cartoonish.
If you saw the vague looking photography from space, there is all reason to doubt that what you see here is real photography. The ocean is most certainly cartoon and the land most likely also.
Antarctica is the most cartoonish of them all. I don’t understand why people take this “photography from space” at face value.
Fake Earth
Space agencies from other countries aren’t any better. This is an official Russian photo of the Earth from space. Notice anything strange?
Yes, to the right of Somalia, south of Arabia there is a gigantic photoshop hand they forgot to remove. Sloppy work.
Maybe you can guess what this is:
It’s an image of Earth! Taken from the NASA Voyager probe.
The probe-lem: I found no closer ones taken from Voyager. They had the unique opportunity to take pictures of Earth from different distances and didn’t!
This is how people rationalize NASA image fakery:
Yes, NASA does admit that their photos are “edited”, composites, photo-shopped, designed, etc. But this is NOT reflected across hundreds of thousands of sensationalist
* news headlines
* press releases
* search results
* documentaries
The public is told “these are images of Earth from space”. The small print says they can’t really take photographs from that height and it’s all just “data visualization”. Then the apologist says “NASA has been very clear on this” when actually, the whole world has been deceived into believing we know what Earth looks like from afar.
I asked Grok, an AI program “What is the highest altitude photo ever taken?” and got this:
This is the Earth seen from Mars:
Color me surprised! If it ain’t the exactly same kind of small dot as seen from the Voyager probe! I’m puzzled that it looks the same from Mars as it does from Voyager, which took the photo Millions of miles away from Mars.
And, in the spirit of keeping it vague, here’s a picture of Earth and Moon from Osiris Rex:
Other photos are from fairly close up (ISS). We actually have no real close up photos of the globe as a whole. Even the doctored images taken from the moon (shown previously) don’t show the full globe.
Go-Pro Cameras in Space
Amateurs who have sent their go-pro cameras into space have given us a better idea of what Earth looks like than NASA.
Here’s a playlist of amateur videos from balloons sent into space:
No fish-eye lens high altitude footage
A couple of beautiful screenshots from the playlist:
At 114758 feet (22 miles):
This one also reached 22 miles:
For comparison, high altitude jets normally fly around 40 000 feet, although there have been classified jets that make it all the way to 90 000 feet.
This article only scratches the surface (pun intended) and provides a space (pun intended) to contemplate: If the earth doesn’t look the way they say it does, what does it actually look like?