Space week: The distance between earth and the international space station

Space week: The distance between earth and the international space station

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back to the day, day day day, day do.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do do do do do do do do do.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
To the day. This week's Fact of the Day theme
is spacey the recent.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Space not to space.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I've said it, I'd go on one of those. I
would never even go give it five years.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'd rather go on one of the space trips in
that submarine to the Titanic, the new one that they
want to do, not the one that was because what
would go wrong with an Xbox controller wrong?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Both would be scary?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yuck?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Today's space Fact of the Day, because the scale of
space is going to be a common occurrence.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
In this week's Fact of the day.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Scale of space and comprehend yuck.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It makes me want be genuinely sick.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
When you're a kid and you're looking at a diagram
of the solo.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, of the Solar System, you're cutting your apple. It's
actually to call what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
It is wildly so. Isn't it making us making his
apple cut?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
He's always take a little bi yeah, yeah, or.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Because I don't have an arm like literally plays a
game while we're on here.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I have played the game the Wi Fi.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
What have the access the game? On the Wi Fi disengaged.
I have to disengage Wi Fi.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Anyway, the International Space Station orbits two hundred and twenty
miles above Earth and kilometers times that by one point six.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Excuse me for a moment.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Sort of feel like your it's your fact of the day.
You know you you time by one point two hundred
and fifty kilometers straight up? Okay, okay, so that's ten times.
Because how high do Commercial Alliance fly?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
They fly thirty five we do meters.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's ten kilometers up, so you know, put
that into a perspective. It's three hundred and fifty kilometers
around the Earth. Now to put that into perspective, if
the Earth was the size of a basketball, Yeah, how
far off the surface of the basketball do you think
the space station would be?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
At the hope? What did you talk? And that's I
don't know that I've got a small.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Basketball, but yeah, imagine a standard sized basketball. Wellington off
that not Wellington, What are you talking about? Wellington?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
He's asking the question, papolling it.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, if the Earth was basketball size, how far off
that basketball would the space station be?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
For thirty centimeters?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Thirty se you'll guess it's thirty centimeters.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
A meter. It would be a meter a.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Meter so off a standard basketball. You think the space
station is a meter off, not one hundred meters off.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That you're getting further.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
The tree to one hundred meters.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm panicking too, I have not You've said.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
You've seen the pictures, right, it's miles you see the
pictures on the station seven millimeters from a basketball, seven millimeters.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's the size of a basketball.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
It would be like less than your fingers width off
going around.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Why did you encourage me to go higher? You say
it was more more.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You said, you said thirty centimeters, and I said thirty centimeters,
and then you said you And then you.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Said a bit of a prick for that, like you, I.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Said a meter and you're like, so then I went
on Wellington far away And then you look articulars.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Always exactly here. This is something that you could pick
up a basketball. Okay, so next time you pick up
a basketball, say, do you know if this is the
Earth the space station to be rot it would be
orbiting that far off and against.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
If the Earth is a mask, or how far away
is the moon?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I don't have that statistic, right, here, Why everything I do.
If the Earth was a basketball, how far away away
would the moon be? Take the stringer to take me
as you have students at the basketball and the tennis ball.
Each take one endo the string and walk apart until

(04:23):
the string is at its full length. It's in feet again,
it's in feed again, twenty three and a half feet
and meters two meters seven point one meters away. Seven
point one was a basketball and the Moon was a
tennis ball, they'd be seven meters apart.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
So much just missus saying God. They complained about having
too much info last week.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Waiting, that's not enoughing that never happy, We never have
you test out.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm trying to make this as simple as possible for
these two.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I'll say it.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
More so, okay, space way to recap the spaceway, Earth
was the size of a basketball, which it's not, which
it's not well scale wise, if you if you held
a basketball and you were on maybe if you were
on the Moon and you had a basketball in arms length,
the Earth would look the same sign the International Space

(05:19):
Station the Moon is what wouldn't Jordan the Aliens from
space space they can via the Moon. So if the
Earth was the size of a basketball. The International Space
Station would be about your little fingers went off going around,
and the Moon would be seven meters away.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Okay, that's far. Wasn't that hard just to get that
moon fact?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
I added in the moon fact?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
And that's how good I am, just on the fly,
on my life.