Speaking of conspiracies. Anyone seen the wild statement that was made by a col at Salt just this week?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpl0FrdJWfs
Absolutely no clue what to think of it.
mine is “airplanes are secretly very fast roller coasters”
There’s a scientist with a knife approaching you at a speed you’re uncomfortable with.
I don’t think that’s a new one.
It’s part of their model already. And oh! The sun has the same size.
Also in this model, the sun and moon cannot be seen in the sky at the same time, except during an eclipse. And the stars never change through the seasons, they are fixed points that look the same no matter where you are at on Earth.
I can’t remember which comedian said this but he absolutely loves talking to flat earthers. Whenever they bring up the moon being too small, etc., he bursts out laughing and says, “You believe in the moon?!”
but, it is small and close.
relatively :P
So you are with us? I believe that, while the moon appears to be as big as the sun, it is not. It is in fact much smaller and closer to earth. And it doesn’t shine on its own but only reflects the light of the sun.
NASA wants to cover this up by fabricating an obviously fake moon landing so people think “if the moon landing isn’t real, the moon has to be much further away” but they can’t hide the truth forever
i’m with you in the first part, but thee second part proves the first part, rather than covers it up.
No, bear with me here: the fake is so obvious that everyone knows it’s a fake. But why would they fake it if the moon is close enough to reach it? Because it isn’t! That’s what they want us to believe. It’s a psyop.
I even believe (and that’s the outlandish part of my theory I don’t usually share), that the moon landing in fact was real (remember, the moon is closer than the sun) but just made to look fake. That way, they can present proof (real proof, remember, I think it was real) and the public is busy debunking that by showing that the moon is far away and thereby cementing the actually intended narrative.
There is a great story about that by the great writer Italo Calvino called ‘the distance of the moon’: https://irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf
In that story, sometimes the moon would be so close, that if you would jump on the right moment you would be taken up by its field gravity.
Flat Earth already does this. And it also includes the Sun.
Don’t forget that the Moon also emits cold light, which makes things colder.
Seemingly 90%+ of Flat Earthers believe this.
Also sometimes the Moon is a hologram.
Also, lunar clipses are caused by an anti-moon that you can’t see unless it’s between the moon and the Earth. I’m 100% serious they believe this.
You never hear about all the planes that crash into the moon, that is clearly in the sky why does the government cover up the truth?
Always time for one of my favorite fun facts:
The moon is so far away from the earth that all the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.
I mean, not for long, but it would be worth it.
The interesting part is that it would be kind of a close fit, astronomically speaking
Hold on a second. You can fit Jupiter and Uranus in there?
WTF?! I have to check this.
Ok shortest distance earth moon surface: 340 000 km.
- Diameter Jupiter: 143 000 km
- Diameter Uranus: 51 000 km
- Diameter Neptun: 49 500 km
- Venus: 12 000 km
- Mars: 6 800 km
- Mercury: 4 800 km
Earth: 12 800 km
Damn I even can fit an another earth in there and it is still plenty of space
Saturn?
Is 116 500 km, so we’re missing the mark with a little more than 43 000 km.
Well 340 is the shortest distance of the orbit
True! But that was also what you used 😜 I looked up the average distance though, which seems to be 385 000 km. Which means we would fit everyone with about 2 000 km to spare 😃
I mean, on a cosmic scale, the moon is tiny, and it is quite close to the earth.
So, this isn’t wrong.
When I first started using Facebook, a relative shared something from a conspiracy theory page, and I started reading all of the stuff from the page and it blew my mind (I was around 11 or 12 I think). But then a few conspiracy theories were too obviously wrong even for the child I was. One was a video of the moon being passed over by a cloud. Because the cloud was very thin and the moon was bright, the light shone through nearly unaltered. And the text was claiming that the cloud was passing behind the moon and that this was the evidence that the real moon had been destroyed and a fake one had been built which was much closer to earth (beneath the clouds).
I like to pretend they’re memes. It makes the world a little less bleak. 😂 Sometimes they’re actually unironically hilarious.
Well this is by design. Some conspiracy theories are just out there to make everyone think all conspiracy theories are hoaxes. They are the completely idiotic ones that is impossible to even see how they would work.
The entire flat earth society is also a complete hoax. It’s just there because people Google on these things and that’s the first hit the search engines give you. I think they say on the page that the earth is like an elevator that goes up all the time, or something like that. :)
I was having a debate I didn’t know I was having with a flat earth guy at a Christmas party last year lol. He was asking me questions and I didn’t get why but were basic science so I was answering and then suddenly clicked when he started making remarks about how we only see one side of the moon. I still don’t get where he was going because I laughed it off and went about my business but he seemed to think that “they” were projecting a picture of the moon I guess? Or maybe the sky is a giant screen? I don’t know , it was just funny that it happened but I do wonder how you could think something like that but not think that ‘they’ would have that kind of technology and capabilities but not be able to project a different side or picture of the moon if that’s all it would take to debunk peoples claims of the moon being fake.
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