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@kiranvanam3018 @anishmoonka

@anishmoonka Greek librarian measuring the entire planet with a stick is the most batshit story I heard ever

Over 2,200 years ago, a Greek librarian named Eratosthenes measured the entire planet with a stick and got it right to within 100 miles. He didn’t have satellites or GPS or even a telescope. Just shadows and a guy he hired to walk between two Egyptian cities. His answer was about 25,000 miles around. The real number is roughly 24,900. Less than 1% off. In 240 BC. That photo up there is from the International Space Station, about 250 miles above us. The ISS whips around the planet once every 90 minutes. Sixteen sunrises, sixteen sunsets, every single day. Astronauts have taken over 3.5 million photographs of Earth from up there. Nearly 300 people from 26 countries have floated up and seen the curve with their own eyes. And yet. According to a 2018 YouGov poll of over 8,000 adults, only 84% of Americans firmly said the Earth is round. Among 18 to 24 year olds, that dropped to 66%. A separate 2021 survey put the share who think Earth is flat or aren’t sure at about 1 in 10. In December 2024, a guy from Colorado named Will Duffy spent three years planning and about $35,000 per person to fly some of the biggest flat-earth YouTubers to Antarctica. Near the South Pole during summer, the sun never sets. It stays up for 24 straight hours, circling across the sky, because the Earth is tilted on its axis and the bottom of the planet faces the sun. On a flat earth, that is physically impossible. They live-streamed the whole thing via Starlink. The sun didn’t set. Jeran Campanella, one of the most-watched flat-earth creators on YouTube, went on camera and said he’d been wrong about the 24-hour sun. The rest of the flat-earth community called it a green-screen fabrication. I went pretty deep on this one. What gets me is the timeline. Eratosthenes nailed it with a stick in 240 BC. We’ve got 3.5 million photos from orbit. A group of flat-earthers watched the sun circle Antarctica for three days, and parts of the community still called it staged. The evidence has been stacking up for 23 centuries and the gap between what we can prove and what people will accept keeps widening.

@darekgusto @anishmoonka This ends you btw

@anishmoonka Those nuts wouldn't believe it even if they saw the curve themselves from ISS. They'd just see a circle and take it as a proof that the Earth is a flat disc.

@WRH_Mike_Rivero @anishmoonka

@The__Goomba @3AM_Grind

@3AM_Grind I don’t believe everything but that doesn’t mean I choose to not believe stuff so obviously true.

Anyone who unironically believes the Earth is flat is a moron. No exceptions.

@The__Goomba You just quoted what’s clearly a cgi/fake moon taken by nasa (not evidence).

The cult saying its a fisheye like no other image of Earth from space exists...

Crazy how those choosing to engage in my replies are choosing to prove my point rather than their own🤔

@anovaju @Rhymestyle No land btw

retweet to scare a flat earther

@Rhymestyle How small is earth no land btw

@Rhymestyle No land btw

@Damonsta777 @MLJanson @otherfren @PaulieM80 The evidence I use is of modern times, not letters from 20+ years ago. Take this seriously.

@instanceGWD @MLJanson @otherfren @PaulieM80 You’re not quoting anybody at all. That’s quite a lot worse by a fair degree.

Moon landing deniers and Flat Earthers are the thickest people on the globe

@Damonsta777 @MLJanson @otherfren @PaulieM80 You quoted van allen (who died in 2006). That isn’t intellectually honest in 2026. Considering the magnitudes of more information we have gained in the last 20 years proving its lethality is nothing to be toyed with.

@instanceGWD @MLJanson @otherfren @PaulieM80 Can you quote the independent research for me? You’d ask me to do the same.

@NathanJarrell4 @DeWittTom @MarchandSurgery What does the space race have to do with spreading communism? Nothing, there’s no correlation.

@instanceGWD @DeWittTom @MarchandSurgery So the USSR wasn't trying to spread the influence of Communism around the world and assist allies after WW2? They weren't controlling other nations in the form of puppet states?

If anything were to happen to the Artemis II astronauts on this mission, it would be an amazingly strong argument that the original lunar landing was fake, exonerating all skeptics. If we can't circle the moon 57 years later, we probably didn't land on it and get back in 1969.

@Damonsta777 @otherfren @PaulieM80 Magnitudes more. A simple google search. And with that we also know they’re impossible to traverse through safely. Of course, nasa (the ones faking this), would disagree

@instanceGWD @otherfren @PaulieM80 It’s true that ‘we’ have more knowledge of them than he did, through probes and instrumentation sent up to directly measure them. They also prove that they’re fine to travel through. The Apollo astronauts got through fine, and the Artemis crew will too.

@MLJanson @Damonsta777 @otherfren @PaulieM80 Or we know now that it’s impossible to safely pass through, based off independent research. NASA (the one faking this) aren’t evidence.

@instanceGWD @Damonsta777 @otherfren @PaulieM80 True, we do know a lot more about radiation in outer space by now. Artemis 1 for example was a test run to see how it would affect a human crew and how to best shield them. nature.com/articles/s4158…

@NathanJarrell4 @DeWittTom @MarchandSurgery No leverage would’ve been gained. No leverage was gained. There was no race, no one died in the Cold War.

@instanceGWD @DeWittTom @MarchandSurgery Think about it: The Soviets dearly wanted to be the first ones to put a man on the moon. The political leverage that it would have generated for them would have been totally devastating to the US, by demonstrating the superiority of communism. Why would they lie about losing?

@MLJanson @Damonsta777 @otherfren @PaulieM80 He died in 2006. You and I know magnitudes more about the belts then he did, correct? Appealing to his authority hurts you actually.

@instanceGWD @Damonsta777 @otherfren @PaulieM80 So, you believe Van Allen that these radiation belts exists, but claim that he's wrong about their intensity?

@Damonsta777 @otherfren @PaulieM80 No, he died in 2006. I (and you) have much more knowledge about the belts then he did. Correct? You also appealed to his authority even though he’s been dead for 20 years.

@instanceGWD @otherfren @PaulieM80 You’ve been arguing with me about the ‘Van Allen belt’ It seems reasonable to refer to, well, Van Allen. Sometimes people know more than you. Like Van Allen. We should be comfortable with that knowledge.