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WHY IS NASA FALSIFYING THE HISTORICAL "ISS" DATA?
Fascinating 'factoid':
Did you know that
31 orbits of the "ISS" = 2 Earth revolutions (or 48 hours - or
2880 minutes) ?
See, the exact time it takes for of the "ISS" to orbit Earth
(as stated by Wiki) is
"92,89" minutes. If we multiply that figure by 31, we get pretty much exactly
2880 min (well, 2879,59 - to be precise). This would clearly mean that, for every
2 revolutions of Earth, the "ISS" would orbit around the world for exactly
31 times. Imagine that.
In fact, here follow a few 2013 examples from my collection of NASA "ISS alerts" - which I get as a subscriber to their Spot the Station e-mail service. These are Rome flyovers which I can (partially) certify - having witnessed a few of them myself. In any case, please know that the Rome flyovers I've been able to observe have
all been pretty much reliably 'on schedule' - i.e. consistent with NASA's "Spot the Station" alerts data. Also, keep in mind that, as I've stated in a previous post, I have received
FAR fewer "ISS" Rome-flyover alerts - than those now listed on the HEAVENS ABOVE archive. The red figures are the times in which the "ISS" appeared over Rome:
2013 Rome flyovers (as notified by NASA's "Spot the Station" to yours truly)
Nov 12 -
05:45, Max Height: 65°, Appears: SW, Disappears: ENE
Nov 14 -
05:46, Max Height: 47°, Appears: W, Disappears: NE
Nov 25 -
06:31, Max Height: 60°, Appears: NW, Disappears: E
Nov 27 -
06:30, Max Height: 49°, Appears: WNW, Disappears: SSE
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Dec 12 -
17:24, Max Height: 44°, Appears: SSW, Disappears: ENE
Dec 14 -
17:25, Max Height: 66°, Appears: W, Disappears: NE
Dec 25 -
18:14, Max Height: 48°s, Appears: NW, Disappears: ENE
Dec 27 -
18:14, Max Height: 64°, Appears: WNW, Disappears: SE
(Btw, this reads a bit like my local bus station's timetable !
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You could put it this way - and you would be pretty much correct:
"every other day, the "ISS" circles the earth as many times as there are days in a month". Fascinating, innit? Hmm - I guess we may surmise that this means either one of two things:
A: There is some 'magical Newtonian synchronicity' going on here - between the stated 28.000km/h orbital speed of the "ISS" - and the (commonly accepted) speed of planet Earth's spinning velocity (about 1670km/h at the equator).
B : NASA is taking us for a ride - and are quite simply managing their (logistically-constrained) solar drones operations on a two-day, military-style worksheet basis.
Please stay with me, because this gets more interesting still - I assure you.
So, let's see: if
"B" is the correct answer, would the NASA hoaxers try to blur / falsify / obfuscate the historical record of the "ISS" flyovers? Would they try to hide from researchers / historians the above-mentioned, absurdly "coincidental Earth >< ISS synchronicity"? Of course they would.
This is where the "HEAVENS ABOVE" archive comes handy (for the NASA clowns). As far as I know, "HEAVENS ABOVE" is the only publicly available historic archive database of all past "ISS" flyovers. If you live in Rome, as I do, you can set their search engine to "Rome, Italy" - and you can browse back in time to read 'exactly when' the "ISS" (supposedly) flew over Rome in the past years.
So without further ado, let us now compare the "Rome-flyovers" data I've received from NASA'a official "Spot the Station" e-mail service - with the data to be found today over at "HEAVENS ABOVE", the NASA-endorsed archive of the "ISS" flyovers :
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummar ... =13&tz=CET
Well, I'm fairly sure I witnessed that last December 28, 2013 Rome flyover. Now, I certainly can't remember having to wait for all of
49 minutes for the "ISS" to appear in my skyline ! Something's gravely amiss here, folks... Or - in more urban language - it's pretty damn fucked up!
Will Chris Peat, the alleged founder of "HEAVENS ABOVE", be so kind to offer an explanation for the above discrepancies? I will try to contact him.