Depends, most of them would look small, depending on their orbits, some orbit power my kilometers or higher, at very high velocities, meters per second. I haven’t stopped in long enough to really look for it but logically that would be my answer using common sense

The iss itself orbits in 90 minutes

theyd be reflecting the suns light and be blindingly bright, and theres thousands of them, in other words, you couldnt miss them, yet theyre oddly missing from iss footage

you can see them from the ground appearing to look like stars right?

doesnt add up, does it?

I mean you can see satalites

In iss feeds a lot of times

did you know, that communications and internet are handled by giant undersea fiber optic cables that stretch along the ocean floors between continents?

They are as I said small in comparison to the observed earth and traveling very quickly (meters per second)

if you saw satelites in orbit, theyd be blindingly bright, if youre being consistent, since they look like stars from the ground

I don’t even want to get into the logistics of how ridiculously expensive, improbable that would be compared to just having space flight. No they wouldn’t lol

They aren’t polished diamonds why would they be as bright as a burning ball of plasma

so you understand your reasoning is inconsistent

How is anything I said inconsistent

I’ve been consistent in my information and my reasoning

craft with reflective surfaces reflecting the suns light bright enough to look like stars from the earths surface, yet theyre not from rbit

inconsistent

I never said they were as bright as stars

and the inconsistency is glaringly obvious

I simply said you could spot them from the surface with the aid of tools

they look like stars from earths surface

Not really

They are not as bright

really? ive been told that so many times ive lost count

They look like a satalites <:lul:484994724118134784>

cute

I mean if you really doubt you can travel to a location where the iss will orbit over and take your telescope and search for it but No one could be bothered to I guess

At least here

I’ve done it myself because I love astronomy as part of my middle school learning

so, in addition to that, the time lag between the moon was less than the time lag from the iss, if i remember correctly

Iss is a traveling satalites that orbits earth in 90 minutes

It’s much harder to track then a stationary target on the moon

That orbits in 24 hours

that means nothing in this

Radio waves travel extremely fast, light speed so the lag is milliseconds in travel time

It does

Lol

it doesnt create time delay

It actually does though

cool story

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