I find this thread amusing. REers are all happy making their little claims, but none of them did as I did, put their money where their mouth is, and tested it.
I have no reason to retest it. Countless other people have and they all show Earth is round.
Why should I waste my money to just do what other have already done?
You are the paranoid nutter that thinks it is all fake. You are the one that needs to be convinced, not me.
As such, me doing it is entirely pointless, you will just dismiss it as fake as well.
If you don't believe a camera hitting the ground at terminal velocity will shatter everything of use in it, test it.
Do you know how sturdy those SD cards are?
Even the cameras themselves can be quite study and survive quite a fall.
For example:
Or are you going to say it hasn't reached terminal velocity?
(the reason for the strange banding is how quickly it is rotating).
So again, why should I go buy a go-pro, take it up nice and high and let it fall, risking losing it (due to inability to find it), just to prove you wrong when others have already done it for me and you are just as likely to dismiss me as you are to dismiss them?
If you believe it's possible to get good, detailed high-speed footage with a waterproof case, test it.
Again, people already have, but why do you need high-speed footage?
If you believe you have any reasonable amount of control of the camera once it starts flying, test it.
That depends upon what kind of set up you have.
As I can get quite powerful telemetry sets (up to 80 km range), I think I would have a good shot of controlling it.
If you believe there is any way to slow the descent of the camera a reasonable amount in a way that reliably functions despite the tremendous strain it will all be under, test it.
Again, plenty of people have already done this.
It's amazing how REers love to cry that FEers should put their claims to the test, and they spout gopro footage so often, but have they ever tried to do what they insist is such an easy, accessible experiment?
Again, we have no reason to. Plenty of people have already done it for us. It would just be a waste of our time and money as you would just dismiss it.
Claim it works all you want. I tested it. You didn't.
And your failures don't prove it is impossible, just that you are incompetent.
Although there is another possibility, you tested it and it worked fine and your footage showed Earth to be round so you needed some excuse to pretend it didn't work.