{"id":15962,"date":"2025-04-05T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:07:27","slug":"flat-earthers-left-in-shambles-after-astronauts-share-new-footage-of-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=15962","title":{"rendered":"Flat Earthers left &#8216;in shambles&#8217; after astronauts share new footage of our planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\">Alas, some Flat Earthers apparently have the answers to everything&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>Flat Earthers are battling on despite SpaceX&#8217;s Fram2 astronauts sharing footage showing just how round the planet actually is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On April 1 at around 9:46pm, a Falcon 9 rocket &#8211; with a\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0Dragon on top &#8211; successfully launched from Launch Complex 39A at\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/nasa\">NASA&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0Kennedy Space Center in\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/florida\">Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">During the SpaceX Fram2 mission, the team passed over\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/earth\">Earth&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0North and South poles multiple times each day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And in a post to\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a>, SpaceX shared the &#8216;<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/technology\/space-x\/spacex-footage-earth-polar-regions-elon-musk-announcement-644372-20250401\">first views<\/a> of Earth&#8217;s polar regions from Dragon&#8217; and its astronauts have since released other footage including a &#8216;timelapse from Antarctica to the Arctic&#8217; alongside a video &#8216;flying over [the] launch site,&#8217; all illustrating how &#8216;breathtaking&#8217; but also how round the Earth truly is, prompting many to poke fun at Flat Earthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It hasn&#8217;t taken long for\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/social-media\">social media<\/a>\u00a0users to flock to the videos in glee to call out Flat Earthers &#8211; who believe the Earth&#8217;s shape is actually a plane or disk opposed to an oblate spheroid &#8211; a.k.a. round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">One wrote: &#8220;Bad day for flat Earthers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;How amazing does that look. I suppose it throws the &#8216;flat earth theory&#8217; completely out the door,&#8221; another added, as a third quipped: &#8220;Splain this @FlatEarthZone,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Holy curvature!!! Amazing sharp quality SpaceX!!! Keep it up!! I love this!! Fantastic job as always! The flat earthers career is literally over! LEns tHE fISh LeNs\u2026.&#8221; a fourth wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And a fifth questioned: &#8220;Where are the flat earthers? Are they like really mad right now? This footage is really beautiful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Alas, the Flat Earthers are still about and kicking, some not ready to admit defeat anytime soon, taking to the comments arguing why the video isn&#8217;t actually proof their theory is wrong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 33vw, (max-width: 768px) 50vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=256&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 256w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=384&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 384w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=640&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 640w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=750&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 750w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=828&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 828w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1080&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 1080w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1200&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 1200w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1920&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 1920w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=2048&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 2048w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt829fb059050f3b05\/67f10319e2aa999e9df065ba\/spacex-earth-round.png 3840w\" alt=\"Some Flat Earthers still aren't having it, though... (Twitter\/@SpaceX)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Some Flat Earthers still aren&#8217;t having it, though&#8230; (Twitter\/@SpaceX)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">One wrote: &#8220;Looks so deep fake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;In shambles my a**!! Complete the circle, are we in another ice age lmao, why is half the Earth covered in ice. Stop using curved lenses!!&#8221; Another argued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">A third wrote: &#8220;It&#8217;s too easy to edit this sort of footage,&#8221; while a fourth said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen CGI before. Not impressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">SpaceX&#8217;s Fram2 mission has since touched back down to Earth, with SpaceX stating in a post to Twitter: &#8220;All four framonauts have safely exited Dragon unassisted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">One user suggested in response to Flat Earthers&#8217; comments on Fram2 footage: &#8220;When will SpaceX have special missions to fly flat earthers to space to finally shut them up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">So, how about it Elon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, some Flat Earthers apparently have the answers to everything&#8230; Flat Earthers are battling on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15964,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}