>>13601726
>Now I'm no scientist or astronaut nor am I a pilot…someone please explain why this Chinese rocket booster is zigzaggin up and down around a "Round" globe…shouldn't it be a straight line, let's say on a parallel to a Latitude line…or am I crazy and lost all common sense!!!
you got it right at the end… you've lost all common sense. clearly the product of contemporary public education, instead of THINKING about it and FIGURING IT OUT on your own, your reflex is to ask someone to GIVE you the easy answer.
well here you go, sparky… the rocket is in an orbit that is at an angle to the equator. so when that orbit is plotted over a flat projection of the earth that is oriented AT AN ANGLE RELATIVE TO THE PLANE OF THE ORBIT, the plot appears as a sine wave. NOW do you understand, or do i need to get the crayons out?
>>13601731
>"Fuzzy Math?"
no, just fuzzy brains.>>13601731