what the forget did i just watch
It pains me to know that the suggestion for this thread came from a rather odd place.
Orbits are used with gravity, you're falling forever around a planet, asteroid, or star.
-picture of Earth, not space-
Many space agency's have been orbiting planet Earth for years, with satellites in orbit, space stations, etc. With orbiting your apoapsis is the farthest away from the object you're orbiting, perigee is the lowest point. apogee is the highest point.
Unlike some video games, to get to the moon you don't just point at it... I mean, you could, but you would need to go very fast, and its not very efficient. I don't feel like explaining this since none of us have the money to even make a spaceship so i'm just going to leave this here.[/center]
This is the stufftiest megathread OP I have ever seen. 90% of this thread has nothing to do with space.
Also, Earth is a part of space, the picture was taken from Apollo 17.
If we're associating objects *in* space with space in general, then Tom Selleck is also space.Here's another picture to include in the OP:
I'm just saying, a picture of Earth is sorta a stuffty choice for a first picture on a space megathread.
Well what would you rather have a picture of?
