Kaaarrll, how do you know the size, speed, and altitude of the object you are looking at in the night sky? Did you go up to the ISS in a shuttle and clock it's speed?
"Wikipedia puts the ISS altitude at around 400 km. Using this for the distance, I get an orbital velocity of 6,576 meters per second (14,710 mph). That's not bad! Checking my result online, I see that the listed orbital speed is 7,600 meters per second, so I'm off by about 15 percent."
Hes looking at the angular size of the object. This means the object can be any size that fits within that angle. It could be extremely huge and 100k miles away, or it could be a tiny drone 50k feet high. This does nothing to prove the distance or size of the object. It's still assumed that nasa isn't lying about those things.
The ISS is moving at 7.6km per second.
How is a balloon doing that?
Kaaarrll, how do you know the size, speed, and altitude of the object you are looking at in the night sky? Did you go up to the ISS in a shuttle and clock it's speed?
https://www.wired.com/story/measure-the-speed-of-the-iss-with-your-iphone/
Here you go. Find a flaw please.
"Wikipedia puts the ISS altitude at around 400 km. Using this for the distance, I get an orbital velocity of 6,576 meters per second (14,710 mph). That's not bad! Checking my result online, I see that the listed orbital speed is 7,600 meters per second, so I'm off by about 15 percent."
Hes looking at the angular size of the object. This means the object can be any size that fits within that angle. It could be extremely huge and 100k miles away, or it could be a tiny drone 50k feet high. This does nothing to prove the distance or size of the object. It's still assumed that nasa isn't lying about those things.