Flat Earth already does this. And it also includes the Sun.
Conspiracies
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
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.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also, lunar clipses are caused by an anti-moon that you can’t see unless it’s in front of the Earth. I’m 100% serious they believe this.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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).
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I like to pretend they’re memes. It makes the world a little less bleak. 😂 Sometimes they’re actually unironically hilarious.
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
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.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Ken M <3 that takes me back
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It’s part of their model already. And oh! It has the same size as the freaking sun.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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?!”
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 months ago
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.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aliens landed in my backyard the other day, and these little one-inch creatures came out. They walked up to me, I looked down and said - “Are you really one inch tall?” - and they said - “No, we’re really very far away”.
That’s an old Steven Wright joke. Weirdly half-forgotten, the man deserves at least as much love as Mitch Hedberg does.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Johanno@feddit.de 11 months ago
Hold on a second. You can fit Jupiter and Uranus in there?
WTF?! I have to check this.
Johanno@feddit.de 11 months ago
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
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
The interesting part is that it would be kind of a close fit, astronomically speaking
Juice64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
but, it is small and close. so close that it affects our tides.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
i’m with you in the first part, but thee second part prives the first part, not covers it up.
notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 11 months ago
There is a great story about that by the great writer Italo Calvino called ‘the distance of the moon’: …typepad.com/…/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf
notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 11 months ago
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.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
All the craters are from rednecks shooting at it. :)
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And ancient peoples of all continents shooting arrows at it
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I don’t think that’s a new one.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just watched a flat earther trying to dispute that the moon is not 250k miles/kilometers away from earth because he was able to photograph it with his camera.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
There’s a scientist with a knife approaching you at a speed you’re uncomfortable with.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
mine is “airplanes are secretly very fast roller coasters”
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I mean, on a cosmic scale, the moon is tiny, and it is quite close to the earth.
So, this isn’t wrong.
Juice@midwest.social 11 months ago
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?
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You know what else is small…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Churches! Very small rocks!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
My mom!
Delta_V@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And my bow!
kromem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This was one of the few things that Lucretius was very wrong about in De Rerum Natura.
Nailed survival of the fittest, quantized light, different mass objects falling at the same rate in a vacuum.
But the Epicurean cosmology was pretty bad and he suggested that the moon and sun were both roughly the size we see them as in the sky.
Can’t get them all right.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Speaking of conspiracies. Anyone seen the wild statement that was made by a col at Salt just this week?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpl0FrdJWfs
Absolutely no clue what to think of it.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
You believe in the moon?
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
My favorite self made up conspiracy of the moon is:
As we all know the moon is moving away from the earth slowly each year but that means it was once much closer perhaps so close even that it rolled along the surface of early earth, pushing down on creatures that were lazy and didn’t get out of the way into the ground giving us fossils.
When the dinosaurs disappeared it wasn’t from an apocalypse they just got tired of being squished and dino capitalism and decided to grab onto the other side of the moon as it rolled by and are now stuck up there.
And that’s why the government won’t let us go to the moon. Because they don’t want us to meet our dino comrades.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
With the current theory of how the moon was formed, it was in fact close enough to be touching the earth at one point… technically
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Exactly.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It fits.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Thank you.
I know, the evidence is outstanding. Truly the final leap in logic when you really look at the pieces.
Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
the moon is made out of cheese.
goverment cheese was never made to feed the poor or to bail out dairy farmers,
it was used to built the set where they faked the moonlanding.
and now they feed it to the poor to get rid of the evidence.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a former recipient of said cheese, I am so glad they did that. That cheese was the best thing in my kitchen as a kid.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thats some new kind of tidal locking
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you come up with this as a kid? Totally sounds like something I would’ve thought of as a little one.