FE Meme
Aliens Made Your Planet Flat
#270: Alien overlords deliberately made Earth flat every Sunday, treating the planet as a managed enclosure rather than a natural sphere.
The Meme
Alien-panel comic with caption about aliens making the planet flat on Sundays; sci-fi humor tied to flat-Earth tagging.
Why It Spreads
Alien week meme events encourage absurd mashups, and dropping flat-Earth wording into a familiar invasion joke gives promoters a shareable laugh that still signals model skepticism. Sci-fi humor lowers the sharing barrier while keeping the enclosed-world theme alive.
What It Gets Wrong
The alien-panel comic caption about overlords making Earth flat every Sunday is sci-fi humor, not an ephemeris revision or telemetry feed. ISS TLEs update daily with passes predicted to the minute at ~7.7 km/s, and lunar eclipse shadow cones span thousands of kilometres consistent with a ~6371 km-radius body, unchanged by weekend alien scheduling in fiction panels. Even as satire, the premise does not predict GNSS orbits, southern flight times, or curvature drop d²/(2R) at altitude that amateurs verify independently. TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real and TestTheGlobe's Satellite Visibility walk through the observations and predictions this image skips.
The Debunk
The alien-panel comic caption about overlords making Earth flat every Sunday is sci-fi humor, not an ephemeris revision. ISS TLEs update daily with passes predicted to the minute, and lunar eclipse shadow cones span thousands of kilometres consistent with a ~6371 km-radius body, unchanged by weekend alien scheduling.
- Comic storylines do not alter orbital elements; TestTheGlobe's Satellites Are Not Real addresses denial of orbiters whose TLEs update regardless of meme plots.
- Enclosed-world variants the joke riffs on fail spacecraft paths; TestTheGlobe's The Firmament Dome Is Not Real covers dome claims humor templates gesture at.
- Open ephemerides predict passes anyone can verify; TestTheGlobe's Satellite Visibility outputs times unlike Sunday alien calendars.
- Curvature drop at altitude follows d²/(2R); TestTheGlobe's No Curvature Is Visible pairs with Curvature Calculator tests humor macros do not perform.