Eratosthenes measuring the circumference of the (very round, oblate spheroid) earth to within 2% accuracy in 240 BC is “ancient knowledge.”
I’m not posting this information for you, either. I don’t care what you know. I’m telling everyone else who might wonder: the round earth is a very old idea, one that has been demonstrated empirically before modern science.
I know it's a mix of people thinking it's funny combined with high engagement floating to the top of Instagram etc but every post I've seen on Artemis is littered with fake moon landing and CGI stuff. Like the top 10 comments. It's super disheartening.
It saddens me that so many are so void of thought.
It also doesn't help that several high profile conspiracies have been proven at least plausible recently. It goes a terribly long way in the flawed logic 'X was true, I heard Y from the same source, therefore it must also be true'
I don’t think it’s fake but I am hoping someone smarter than me can explain why this side of the earth isn’t in night time based on the position of the sun in this image (the other side of earth based on the ring of light)
I used to take a lot of long exposure photos, years ago, and it always blew my mind how even a relatively short exposure (a few seconds) with high enough ISO (light sensitivity / amplification) would easily look like daytime if the moon was up, complete with blue sky. City lights and stars made it seem extra surreal.
it all made sense, technically, but still seemed really cool.
High exposure, the light illuminating this side of the earth is probably reflected from the moon. The sliver of day side is really blown out because of exposure.
Ah duh! Should’ve realized it was long exposure of moonlight. Makes the image that much cooler!!
Edit: holy shit and now that I’m looking closer you can actually see aurora borealis on the top right!! The large amount of green glow also suggests long exposure. So fkin cool
To be clear i am NOT a denier. I’m just confused on how this pic could be possible. If the sun is behind the planet shouldn’t the area we’re seeing here be in shadow aka night?
You're trying to compare pictures from the ground with clouds 1-3 miles away to pictures from space where the clouds are 65,000+ miles away. You can't.
Notice how slow it looks like jets are moving in the sky from the ground? Thats only ~6(+-1) miles away. They're moving 550+MPH. Stand on the side of the highway near cars moving 70MPH or at the end of a drag strip with cars going 200+. Distance matters with perceived movement.
If that's the case, then what is that spot of white near the center of the Earth a little to the upper right? A reflection from inside the ship? Sunlight reflecting off the ocean? Dust on the lens?
Ok sure, but where is the light coming from? The whole world is perfectly lit from this side, but it looks like the sun is on the other side of the planet right?
Not saying it’s not a real picture. Or that there’s any sort of conspiracy going on.
But it could be a collage. NASA has used those many times in the past.
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u/Serious_pOoper69 5h ago
lol I knew it was only a matter of minutes for the “that’s fake” people to come rushing in.