Monday, April 28, 2008

Antimatter Hypothesis: NASA STS-37


Courtesy National Space Society. Space Shuttle Flight 39 (STS-37), narrated by the astronauts. Launch: April 5, 1991. Crew: Steven R. Nagel, Kenneth D. Cameron, Jerry L. Ross, Jay Apt, Linda M. Godwin.

Here's a NASA video from space shuttle mission STS-37. This video was recorded on a space shuttle mission that launched 5 April 1991. The land below is the southwest coast of South America. The Pacific ocean and Chili are on the near side, with Argentina and the Atlantic ocean on the far side.


NASA STS-37@16:39 to 16:58
When the orb appears in frame one it reflects land, the rust color. It must be in a higher orbit to line up the reflections right. In a lower orbit it would reflect the black of space above. At center frame in frame two the orb reverses direction, consistent with antigravity and not much else. In frame three the orb reflects both land and sea below. Then it stops reflecting land in frame four. The scene ends with the co-orbiting orb maintaining its position in the frame while the Earth continues to pass by below in frame five, which means that it adapted to the same orbital velocity as the space shuttle. This video is actually three times normal speed, so twenty seconds of play time is more than a minute of real time. One thing we know for sure, the orb reflects its surroundings but it doesn’t appear to glow. At least not in the visual spectrum in the vacuum of space. So what is the surface made of? Would it act the same way in Earth’s atmosphere?

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