FE Meme
Rocket Reaching Space Sounds Like Splash
#208: When a rocket reaches space it sounds like "SPLASH" in the Bermuda Triangle; rockets go to the triangle, not orbit.
The Meme
Caribbean map with triangle from Miami to Puerto Rico, cartoon splash graphic, and hashtags #RocketsGoToBermudaTriangle #NASALies.
Why It Spreads
Combining rocket skepticism with Bermuda Triangle lore connects two favorite conspiracies in one Caribbean map. The cartoon splash turns every Atlantic launch into a hidden ditch at sea, which feels like explaining where rockets really go without checking radar or satellite tracking.
What It Gets Wrong
The Caribbean map with a cartoon "SPLASH" in the Bermuda Triangle and hashtags #RocketsGoToBermudaTriangle and #NASALies is a map joke, not range-safety telemetry. Florida launches insert payloads into orbits tracked by public radar and TLEs; the ISS at ~7.7 km/s is predicted to the minute by open ephemerides, while spent stages fall in calculated downrange corridors unlike clipart splashes. Amateur observers track bright passes minutes after liftoff using the same tracking family range safety publishes, which triangle myths cannot replace. TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real and TestTheGlobe's Satellite Visibility walk through the observations and predictions this image skips.
The Debunk
The Caribbean map with a cartoon "SPLASH" in the Bermuda Triangle and #RocketsGoToBermudaTriangle is a map joke, not a range-safety document. Florida launches insert stages into orbits tracked by radar and TLEs; the ISS at ~7.7 km/s is predicted to the minute by open ephemerides, not to a triangle splashdown.
- Published downrange zones and impact corridors for spent stages differ from meme splash art; TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real addresses the broader claim that orbiters never exist after Atlantic ascents.
- Sustained free-fall at orbital speed is not a sea landing; TestTheGlobe's ISS Footage Shows Real Zero-G documents vacuum operations that continue for months after Caribbean-region launches.
- Amateur observers track bright passes minutes after liftoff using TLEs that keep updating; TestTheGlobe's Satellite Visibility predicts those passes from the same tracking family range safety uses.
- Deep-space trajectories beyond Earth orbit follow the same infrastructure; TestTheGlobe's Apollo Moon Landings Were Real covers how open tracking data outlast splash cartoons.