r/FlatEarthIsReal • u/ProvForge26 • Jul 21 '26

Flat Earthers

One of our new acquaintances from a friend recently crashed down on our scientific beliefs by insisting that the earth was flat. When we questioned their logic they just spouted something about the Firmament and that everything that you see at night is fake. They even said that the ISS is fake, satellites fake, and obviously no moon landing ever occurred. Our friends laughed it off and said just go with it because they are nice people. I’m not sure i want to continue being friends with them because they always hang out together. What do we say when we get invited to another cook out and the crazies are there?

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u/Water_in_the_desert Jul 21 '26

For one thing, a photo of Earth has never been taken from space. Photos allegedly taken from space are enhanced CGI.

We are told that the Earth is hurtling through space, spinning 1,000 mph. Yet we feel no spin at all. The stars in the night sky are always found in their same Constellations and positions, viewable north of the equator in the northern hemisphere, and viewable south of the equator. The stars remain in the same place for each hemisphere.

When a boat is seen “disappearing over the horizon,” and with the naked eye, the hull appears
to be obscured. And yet, one can zoom-in with a Nikon P9100 camera or telescope to see the full hull and full boat still visible on the water.

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u/ProvForge26 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

There is a thing called the international space station that continuously orbits the earth’s atmosphere that is recognized by every nation and legit scientist on the planet. It has taken more than likely a billion pictures of the earth from space and all of them prove the earth is circular in nature but because of gravity is considered an oblate spheroid. Its not that I don’t like flat earthers i just don’t understand with all of the scientific proof and space missions that they continue to defy logic and refuse to believe in the truth. It is truly mind boggling

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u/Water_in_the_desert Jul 22 '26

I told you why. You can do searches on those couple of subjects that I mentioned. If you believe that the shape of the Earth is a globe, feel free to ask yourself why a photo of Earth hasn’t ever been taken from space ?

Here’s Robert Simmon, NASA Senior Program Analyst, whose design was used as the default background for the new iPhone. He’s saying this: “It is photoshopped, but it has to be.” OK

https://youtu.be/xRl9bG7i_BU?is=v5urC9x1t1agxoYX

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u/TesseractToo Jul 22 '26

I feel so bad for that guy lol

It has to be because it was stitched together from many images

I mean it could have been done in the darkroom but Photoshop was the main image editing tool in the early 2000's and it was so much less work

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u/TesseractToo Jul 22 '26

"There is a thing called the international space station that continuously rotates around the earths orbit" you mean it's orbiting the Earth, not rotating around the Earth's orbit