Space Virgins Get Lucky ERIC DUBAY
Space fantasy fanboys and fangirls have just received their latest damagecontrol propaganda update from actor Richard Branson where he claims to have gone to space and filmed the spinningball Earth for us (but really he just did some parabolic maneuvers simulating freefall while in a fancy plane) Unfortunately for old Dick and his riders, rather than use a normal lens to film the Earth, like all honest amateurs do when sending up their high altitude balloons, these space virgins, just like NASA, Space X, the Red Bull dive and all other socalled official sources, always suspiciously choose to use a fisheye lens causing the horizon to constantly and radically warp from convex, to flat, to concave. As the camera tilts relative to the horizon the ends warp up or down respectively, but when held still and level the horizon is flat. As the normal back camera shows, the horizon actually remains perfectly flat and rises to the eyelevel of the camera all the way up. If the Ea
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