2nd night of moon/planet/stargazing with my son, through the @ExploreSci telescope we got from @CloudBreakOptic. I figured out how to use the phone adapter this time, but didn't think to save in RAW. 😥 ... Tweaked the contrast & such with the @pixlr app.

Nope. I’m not letting you get away with pretending the shape of the earth isn’t a long established fact or is in any way controversial or subject to serious debate. The fact is YOU are disputing this fact, so the burden of proof lies with YOU, fairly and squarely, not me.

first of all, the evidence doesn't have to be 'scientific' second of all, we do you have nothing for flat earth 🤷‍♀️ #flatearth #clownworld #FlerfsSayTheDumbestThings

THEISTS/CREATIONISTS, what is the logic in asking atheists to disprove the unevidenced and (by definition) unprovable?

Chemtrails are definitely real, because. 😜

Dealing with another desperate, clueless chemtrailer. Apparently, understanding some BASIC cloud facts means I'm a bot or an idiot. 🤷

Theist: "Wait a second... So you believe that out if absolute nothingness, and without any intelligence, a perfectly ordered, logical system emerged—fine-tuned just right so that we can exist?" Atheist: 🤨 "No. Where'd you get that from?... That's a strawman. Who told you that?"

Any flat-Earthers out there willing to take a stab at this one?

Oh wow. Duh. I don't think there has ever been a statement more obvious than this: x.com/i/status/2048776647575…

You’ve seen them in the comments: “How come Artemis’s crew didn’t zoom in to the “underside” of the supposed globe to show people in Australia upside down? The mission was fake!” Folks, this is exactly the shot flat earthers keep demanding - a zoom from space straight down to the “bottom” of the globe, Australia front and center, upside down. Here’s the thing. Even with this absurd, physically impossible zoom, this is exactly what you’d see on a spherical Earth. If, that is, IF the person who produced it didn’t just rotate the video to match convention. Why would anyone produce such a video? Literally no one cares what Flerfs want, they are irrelevant. They reject gravity. They reject the globe. And then they miss the most basic consequence of both: “down” is toward the center of mass. Every person on Earth stands on their own local vertical. An Australian isn’t hanging upside down - they’re standing just as upright as you are. This is physics taught to ten-year-olds. Incredible it even needs to be addressed. So they keep demanding evidence that, even if handed to them from space, they would immediately misinterpret and still deny. And that’s why these demands don’t get taken seriously. Flat Earth is dead, it’s a zombie conspiracy.

Hey @latestincosmos, why post this? Why claim it's from Artemis II? What's the point? Did you just see it and think it's impressive and want the engagement from it before anyone else, so you didn't take the time to verify? If not, why do people do this?

Flat-earthers, conspiracy addicts, and other reality-deniers have a strange relationship with the concept of evidence. They demand proof, but no matter how much solid, logical, verifiable evidence you provide, it gets completely ignored. As if you never said a single thing.

There is a reason people do not debate Flat Earthers or Moon landing deniers. It is not because the evidence is weak. It is because the conversation is rigged from the start. You can bring measurements, physics, engineering, independent tracking, international verification, and experiments they can do in their own backyard, and none of it matters. The moment the facts show up, they shout fake, edited, CGI, conspiracy, or “that’s just your belief.” You cannot debate someone who treats every piece of evidence as invalid by default. You cannot debate someone who demands proof and then rejects the proof the second it appears. You cannot debate someone who thinks their personal disbelief outranks measurable reality. A debate requires both sides to accept evidence. Flat Earth and Moon landing denial collapse the moment evidence enters the room, so the only move left is to deny the room exists. That is why people do not debate them. Not because the globe is fragile, but because the argument they bring is. You cannot have a real discussion with someone who decided ahead of time that nothing you show them will ever count.

I don't even know where to start with this ignorant doofus.