Dave Mac

Last flight in the Coast Guard!

Earth isn’t flat, the Moon landing wasn’t faked, and space isn’t some CGI dome. These claims fall apart the moment you look at the technology we use every day. None of it works unless Earth is a sphere in a real cosmos. Start with GPS. Your phone calculates your position by comparing timing signals from satellites orbiting Earth. Those satellites move at precise speeds and altitudes that only make sense in a real vacuum. If Earth were flat or if space were fake, GPS would fail instantly. No navigation, no rideshare apps, no airline routing, no global timing systems. The entire system depends on orbital mechanics that match what physics predicts for a spherical planet. Satellite internet, satellite TV, and weather forecasting all rely on the same reality. We watch storms form from orbit. We track hurricanes across oceans using data from satellites operated by different countries and private companies. These systems agree with each other because they are observing the same real planet from space. If space were fake, every meteorologist, every aerospace engineer, every telecom company, every airline, and every military on Earth would have to coordinate a perfect lie for decades. That is not possible. Now to the claim that NASA fakes photos of Earth. This is one of the easiest conspiracy theories to debunk because NASA is not the only source of Earth images. Not even close. Dozens of countries and private companies have their own satellites that photograph Earth constantly. Weather satellites from Europe, Japan, India, and South Korea all produce their own full‑disk images. Private companies like Maxar and Planet Labs take high resolution photos of Earth every day for commercial clients. Amateur radio operators receive live images directly from NOAA satellites using equipment you can buy online. None of these systems rely on NASA. None of them match a single centralized source. Yet they all show the same spherical Earth from different angles at different times. If NASA were faking Earth photos, every other space agency and every private satellite operator would have to fake them too. They would also have to coordinate the lighting, cloud patterns, storm movements, and surface features in perfect sync. That is not happening. The simplest explanation is the correct one. Multiple independent systems are photographing the same real planet. The Moon landing is even harder to deny once you look at the tech. We still interact with the equipment the astronauts left behind. Observatories fire lasers at the retroreflectors sitting on the lunar surface and receive the return signal at the exact predicted intervals. This is not a theory. It is a measurement that universities and independent facilities repeat all the time. You cannot fake a laser return from nearly 240,000 miles away. Even the internet used to spread these conspiracies relies on space infrastructure. Undersea cables carry most traffic, but satellites handle the rest. The timing, routing, and handoff between systems only work because the satellites are actually in orbit. If space did not exist, the global communications network would collapse. The irony is simple. The technology that flat Earth believers and Moon landing deniers use to post their claims is the same technology that proves them wrong. The evidence is not hidden. It is built into the functioning of the modern world. You can reject the conclusions, but you cannot reject the infrastructure that makes your phone, your internet, your weather alerts, your maps, your flights, and your entire digital life possible. These conspiracies do not just fail scientifically. They fail technologically, mathematically, and logistically. They only survive when people stop paying attention to the systems they rely on every day.

@ManaByte Boom. 💥

We didn’t land on the moon in 1970. We landed on the moon on these dates: July 20, 1969 November 19, 1969 February 5, 1971 July 30, 1971 April 21, 1972 December 11, 1972

@InfographicTony I like this perspective too. community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3…

This is probably one of the better animations I have found that illustrate clearly, the mission path of Artemis II. You can see the precision planning needed for a spacecraft to rendezvous with the moon.

Useful idiot is a great way to put it.

@GravyGG It it far-fetched. So is the universe if you imagine it.

@CGDaveMac It’s pretty far fetched

Nothing like a game of Chicken at over 2,300 mph Very reasonable to believe. 🤡

@GravyGG Assuming they have enough fuel.

@GravyGG Also, I really think this helps to explain how even if we somehow miss the moon they could make it back and not be flung into space.

@GravyGG Do you understand physics? I know you do. From the moon’s perspective it looks a bit different, doesn’t it? 🌖 community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3…

@GravyGG @CuriosityonX Uhh. It’s not all anout the metadata.

@CGDaveMac @CuriosityonX NASA had over 50 years to up their game and tackle metadata this time 🤣

On the Left - Apollo 17, 1972 On the Right - Artemis II, 2026 Two photographs of us, taken over half a century apart. What changed?

@GravyGG @CuriosityonX x.com/erdayastronaut…

@CuriosityonX At least every can see the one form 1972 is clearly CGI now

This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture). BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image. So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!

I haven’t even read Chapter 21 yet. I can’t wait to read it.

Affirmations work. It’s now only 18 days later… I was stuck. Let’s go back. ⏰ Imagine this: You have been trying to achieve a goal since Jan 1. Maybe a New Year’s resolution. Plateau. Backwards progress. Give up? I was there. But no, in only 18 days I can tell you that writing Affirmations works. I didn’t know if I believed it. Would you? My goal was by the end of April. Achieved it 28 days early. Time for a new goal and to literally rewrite my future. What about you? @BowTiedTrance

@BowTiedTrance @AndrewWriteCopy Interesting. I saw this right after my last post. How did you know?

My "persuasion filter" latched on most tightly to "You want to frame your guarantee in the positive." I don't know why I would ever want to plant the suggestion, "This might not work, you might want your money back." My guarantee is that after you've seen great results, you're going to want to tell me all about them. 🤔

Stronger your guarantee, stronger your sales. So here are 7 easy and effective tactics to strengthen your guarantee: 1) Name it Don't give your guarantee a generic name: • 30 day money back guarantee Instead use something more specific like: • Andrew's Lifetime Handshake Promise 2) Lengthen it The longer your guarantee, the higher your conversions. So don't stick with a standard 30 day guarantee. Go for 90 days or even a full year. 3) Be positive You want to frame your guarantee in the positive. So instead of: • If you're unhappy for any reason, return it within 90 days for a full refund. You could write: • You're either thrilled with the results or return it within 90 days for a full refund. 4) Resell the benefits Use your guarantee as an opportunity to resell the benefits of your offer. For example: • You must go viral at least once, gain a minimum of 1,000 followers, and get your first client... or I'll refund every penny you paid. 5) Go beyond a refund You can promise more than just a refund. Maybe refund and replace, double their money back, or buy them a competitor's offer. For example: • You'll get your first client within 30 days or I'll personally work with you until you do. 6) Quick and easy Make it clear it's quick and easy to get a refund. For example: • All you have to do is email [support email address] and you'll get a full refund within 24 hours. 7) No fine print And make it clear they won't have to jump through any hoops. For example: • No hassle. And no questions asked. To sum up: 1) Name it 2) Lengthen it 3) Be positive 4) Resell the benefits 5) Go beyond a refund 6) Make it quick and easy 7) With no fine print And those are 7 tools you can use to create a strong guarantee that'll help boost sales. Follow me @AndrewWriteCopy for more posts on marketing and copywriting. And if you found this valuable, repost it to help your fellow persuasion professionals. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

“When you haven’t heard someone talk for four years, the thought that they might be able to talk again was mind blowing."

@ApoStructura Try @Erdayastronaut Tim is awesome.

I’ve always been a die hard “watch the official stream” defender. But considering how bad NASA’s stream was I might have to reconsider for the next one. How did they black out TWICE during the first seconds of takeoff, miss booster separation, and keep losing the rocket.

Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.

@BowTiedTrance The latter. Free money as long as you have the $7.

Think fast: If I gave you the choice between a free $10 Amazon gift card, or a $20 Amazon gift card for seven dollars, which would you take?