All I'm saying is there is distortion based on orientation of camera:
Right, that's due to the fish-eye effect.
Obviously if the camera is oriented above the horizon, the horizon will appear concave; if below, then it's convex in appearance. So the whole video proves nothing.
The GoPro footage more-so proves that you can't see the whole planet from the stratosphere because it's not flat -- instead you only see the parts of the surface from the angle captured by what's rotated within view.
If the planet was flat, as the Flat Earthers say, once the GoPros hit the stratosphere you should be able to see the sun and moon, unless they believe the sun and moon rotate around the planet, which makes even less sense when you consider the other planets in the solar system.
That's not to mention that as the footage showcases, if the sun did rotate around a flat Earth, it would mean every nation on the planet would have the exact same day/night cycle, which obviously isn't the case. The different videos obviously show the sun at different positions around the planet, rather than under the planet.
So even if the GoPros don't show the whole planet (since they obviously can't reach the exosphere without a rocket) they still disprove the Flat Earth theory.
But SpaceX does have exosphere footage, which you can watch from their various livestreams, which does show the planet to be round:
https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M?t=5588
When more commercial space flights into the exosphere become common, people will be able to capture more user footage. Although, I have no idea how people will continue to maintain the Flat Earth ruse at that point.
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