# Is the curvature of Earth from ISS natural or not ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460 "2014-05-14T19:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![karol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@karol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karol)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/1 "2014-05-14T19:51:15Z")
Want to know **your** opinion. Is this how the Earth is really curved ? > **[ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment](https://video.ibm.com/channel/iss-hdev-payload)** > > Currently, live views from the ISS are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2... My opinion is here: > **[The live feed of Earth from ISS and fisheye curvature trick.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oZld_9Y1SC3iYXtpS-LZPGh5CJrZCX1tNryjAZTeCmA/edit)** > > The live feed of Earth from ISS and the fisheye curvature trick. NASA recently started their new project which lets everyone on the globe watch 24 h live transmission of Earth from the International Space Station. ... Wanted to include a poll. How to fix that ? 1. Of course it is the exact curvature. 2. No, it’s exaggerated. 3. I don’t know. 4. There’s no curvature of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/2 "2014-05-14T20:31:38Z")
**Karol,** what’s the point? You make the illogical and batshit-crazy claim that the Earth is hollow again and again, won’t actually engage in a debate, won’t consider the overwhelming evidence that you are wrong, continue to post the same crap, ignore evidence and/or misinterpret stuff, and 100% of Dopers have disagreed with you. Although this is a educational site, you certainly aren’t learning anything. Do you think you are making progress, are you just having fun tossing around words, or are you merely trying to annoy us before the banhammer falls? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/3 "2014-05-14T20:45:15Z")
[QUOTE=karol] Is the curvature of Earth from ISS natural or not ? [/QUOTE] Yep. Well, that’s that sorted out then. What’s next? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/4 "2014-05-14T20:57:19Z")
To be fair, there’s probably some distortion from the camera lens. By the time the picture gets processed by the image sensor, NASA computers, ustream, your browser, and the sheer power of lunacy, it may very well appear like a donut/flat/dodecahedral to the untrained eye unfamiliar with geometric shapes. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/5 "2014-05-14T21:01:03Z")
Weren’t you told to stop posting this horseshit? Wait, why am I asking you? You’ve never once managed to actually answer even one of the thousands of questions that have been asked of you. I’ll ask the mods instead. Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/6 "2014-05-14T21:01:20Z")
It’s definitely a shop. I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-curvature-of-earth-from-iss-natural-or-not/688460/7 "2014-05-14T21:01:54Z")
**karol** , you’ve been told in no uncertain terms in[this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17365763) by Moderator **tomndebb** that we’re no longer going to furnish you space for this nonsensical agenda … and if you did it again, you’d be banned. So — bye.