FE Meme
Globe and Space Are Impossibilities?
#164: The globe and outer space are not scientific facts; they are scientific impossibilities.
The Meme
Black field with centred white macro text: "The globe and outer space aren't scientific facts. They're scientific impossibilities."
Why It Spreads
A blunt declaration on a stark black background feels like a thesis statement that permission-slips readers to dismiss every astronomy photo without engaging a single measurement. The absolute wording "scientific impossibilities" flatters viewers who already reject NASA imagery as if declaring something impossible were the same as testing it.
What It Gets Wrong
The centred white caps macro declares globe and outer space "scientific impossibilities" rather than facts, but science is built on models that survive prediction. Spherical Earth with R ≈ 6371 km explains ships hiding hull-first, lunar eclipse shadow curvature, and GNSS fixes used billions of times daily, while space is altitude above an atmosphere whose pressure falls from about 101 kPa at sea level toward near-vacuum above 100 km per radiosonde data. Calling both impossible does not explain navigation, weather satellites, stellar parallax, or opposite seasons on a flat disk. TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real and TestTheGlobe's Curvature Calculator walk through the observations and predictions this image skips.
The Debunk
Curvature h ≈ d²/(2R) with R ≈ 6371 km, orbital tracking, and pressure decay from ~101 kPa toward near-vacuum above ~100 km are measured quantities that predict globe-and-space physics; that fits daily GNSS and radiosonde data. A stark text macro declaring both "scientific impossibilities" is inconsistent with any single failed prediction. Use TestTheGlobe's Curvature Calculator to compare the meme's claim with a measurable prediction.
- TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real page walks through amateur tracking and radio evidence for objects above the atmosphere the meme declares impossible.
- TestTheGlobe's Curvature Calculator quantifies horizon drop h ≈ d²/(2R) over distance, a measured consequence of spherical geometry the slogan never addresses.
- TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real: radiosondes and aircraft altimeters show pressure falling toward near-vacuum with altitude, open sky thinning without a dome.
- TestTheGlobe's No Curvature Is Visible: rejecting space wholesale still leaves southern star trails, time zones, and eclipse geometry unexplained on a flat disk.