FE Meme
Antarctica Pyramid and NASA Questions?
#25: Pyramids on the dollar, an Antarctic treaty lockdown, no flights over the pole, and NASA "losing" moon photos, stitched together with ice-wall imagery as questions "they" avoid.
The Meme
Two-panel polar collage: distant triangular ice peak behind a shelf (top) and a tall straight ice cliff meeting dark water (bottom).
Why It Spreads
A numbered question list paired with dramatic Antarctic cliffs (one triangular peak, one vertical ice face) stitches money, treaties, air routes, and "lost" NASA tapes into one ice-wall mystery. Each item sounds connected, so the collage feels like homework the brave viewer is finally doing.
What It Gets Wrong
The two-panel polar collage pairs a distant triangular ice peak with a shelf cliff and stitches in scatter-shot questions about dollar-bill pyramids, Antarctic treaty lockdowns, no flights over the pole, and NASA losing moon photos, but the Great Seal pyramid is symbolic art, not a geography lesson. Airlines and military aircraft publish transpolar great-circle routes that save hundreds of kilometres on a sphere, researchers and tourists reach Antarctica routinely under the treaty, and Apollo photo archives remain extensive. Treating unrelated cliff photos as evidence of a sealed flat-disk rim is inconsistent with documented polar access and independent lunar telemetry. TestTheGlobe's Antarctica Is An Ice Wall and TestTheGlobe's Flight Path Comparison walk through the observations and predictions this image skips.
The Debunk
Polar great-circle routes and documented Antarctic access fit a globe model; scatter-shot conspiracy questions plus cliff photos are inconsistent with a sealed flat-disk rim. Independent lunar imagery and telemetry still match Apollo mission data. Use TestTheGlobe's Flight Path Comparison to compare the meme's claim with a measurable prediction.
- Polar great-circle routes are published because they save distance on a sphere; TestTheGlobe's Flight Path Comparison plots those arcs.
- Ice shelves form vertical faces and pointed peaks from glaciation; TestTheGlobe's Antarctica Is An Ice Wall separates coastal geology from a world-edge dam.
- The two-panel collage pairs a distant triangular ice peak with a shelf cliff, not evidence of dollar-bill pyramids, treaty lockdowns, or "lost" NASA photos in one frame.
- TestTheGlobe's Apollo Moon Landings Were Real covers the extensive photo and telemetry archive the meme's "lost photos" claim ignores.