FE Meme
Never Go Full Globetard
#186: Believing the globe model is going "full globetard"; serious thinkers should never go full globetard.
The Meme
Tropic Thunder still with top/bottom macro text and hashtags #TheGlobelsFake and #ResearchFlatEarth.
Why It Spreads
The Tropic Thunder quote is instantly recognizable, so the insult lands before anyone asks for evidence. Hashtags like #ResearchFlatEarth on a reaction still make scrolling feel like joining a club. Ridicule substitutes for measurement while the movie frame signals confidence.
What It Gets Wrong
A Tropic Thunder still with top and bottom macro text and #TheGlobelsFake / #ResearchFlatEarth hashtags is ridicule, not geodesy. Name-calling is not a coordinate system when globe predictions about eclipse paths, great-circle flight times, stellar fields, and GNSS geometry stay testable regardless of meme tone, and over tens of kilometres h ≈ d²/(2R) with R ≈ 6371 km still predicts measurable hidden height insults skip entirely. A borrowed movie line cannot retire centuries of converging observations from geodesy, astronomy, and navigation. TestTheGlobe's Map Distortion Does Not Matter and TestTheGlobe's Map Distortion Explorer walk through the observations and predictions this image skips.
The Debunk
A Tropic Thunder movie still with #TheGlobelsFake hashtags is ridicule, not geodesy; airline great circles, baseline curvature math, and projection geometry still fit a spheroid. Impact-font "Never go full globetard" is inconsistent with entering distance and height into h ≈ d²/(2R). Use TestTheGlobe's Map Distortion Explorer to compare the meme's claim with a measurable prediction.
- TestTheGlobe's Flights Only Make Sense On A Flat Map: great-circle fuel planning and southern crossings close on an ellipsoid, not on a meme hashtag alone.
- TestTheGlobe's No Curvature Is Visible explains measurable baseline tests behind curvature claims that insults skip entirely, including h ≈ d²/(2R) over tens of kilometres.
- The image is a Tropic Thunder still with top and bottom macro text and #ResearchFlatEarth tags; that film frame is not a curvature survey or flight log.
- TestTheGlobe's Map Distortion Does Not Matter separates projection math from vibes that maps secretly admit flat Earth, and the Map Distortion Explorer turns the same geography into multiple projections insults never address.