Flat-earthers bared the brunt of a few jokes online made by people who pointed to the live images of the SpaceX launch to prove the earth is round.
Users on Twitter couldn’t resist after Saturday’s historic launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when live images beamed back to Earth showed the Dragon crew capsule in orbit against the curvature of the earth.
A Twitter user known as The Noggin wrote in a post directed at the movement saying the footage was indisputable because it was ‘completely live’.
‘Hey #FlatEarth, we just launched two Americans into space completely live, with tons of live footage. Absolutely no way it could have been fake. Suck it, flerfs,’ tweeted the user,m who claims to be a Marine Corps veteran and tweets under the handle @USMCNoggin.
Flat-earthers bared the brunt of a few jokes online made by people who pointed to the live images of the SpaceX launch to prove the earth is round. Pictured is one of the live images showing a view from the capsule against the earth’s curvature
A Twitter user known as The Noggin wrote in a post directed at the movement saying the footage was indisputable because it was ‘completely live’
A Twitter user who identifies as ‘Papi’ called an animated image of a young child having a temper tantrum (pictured) ‘Flath Earthers after watching the SpaceX Launch’.
A Twitter user who posts under the handle @bringsnacks__ went so far as to include video footage of the SpaceX stage separation, with the earth in the background clearly looking round.
Another Twitter user who identifies as ‘Papi’ and tweets under the handle called an animated image of a young child having a temper tantrum ‘Flath Earthers after watching the SpaceX Launch’.
And a Twitter user who posts under the handle @bringsnacks__ went so far as to include video footage of the SpaceX stage separation, with the earth in the background clearly looking round.
‘Flat earthers must be so confused right now #SpaceX #SpaceLaunchLIVE #FlatEarth,’ wrote the Twitter user, who identifies as ‘f–k off kevin’.
As others took their turn at delivering a good dose of ridicule, astronauts Bob Behnken, 49, and Doug Hurley, 53, arrived at the International Space Station Sunday, where they joined the mission’s commander, Chris Cassidy.
It was the the first time SpaceX, the private aerospace company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, had launched a manned mission into space.
It wasn’t long before a Twitter user known as The Flat Earther dug in their heels and restated the movement’s belief by tweeting the question, ‘Why do you think earth is a globe?’
As others took their turn at delivering a good dose of ridicule, astronauts Bob Behnken, 49, and Doug Hurley, 53, arrived at the International Space Station Sunday, where they joined the mission’s commander, Chris Cassidy. Pictured is the launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida
Astronauts Bob Behnken, 49, and Doug Hurley, 53, are pictured on the Dragon crew capsule after liftoff Saturday on its mission to the International Space Station
It was the the first time SpaceX, the private aerospace company founded by billionaire Elon Musk (pictured), had launched a manned mission into space
It wasn’t long before a Twitter user known as The Flat Earther dug in their heels and restated the movement’s belief by tweeting the question, ‘Why do you think earth is a globe?’
‘Because you see Photoshop images of it,’ wrote the user under the handle @TheFlatEartherr.
‘Have you ever tried to prove the globe independently? If not, then you have no evidence of a globe,’ the flat-earther explains.
One of the most visible members of the movement ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes died earlier this year when he attempted to prove the world was flat aboard a homemade rocket that crashed after liftoff.
One of the most visible members of the flat-earthers movement ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes died earlier this year when he attempted to prove the world was flat aboard a homemade rocket that crashed after liftoff
Hughes, 64, died after the rocket crash landed, possibly due to a parachute malfunction.
Footage of the incident shows Hughes propelling himself into the air as a parachute suddenly comes off the steam-powered rocket on Feb. 22, near Barstow, California, before it crashed.
The rocket then plummets back down to Earth and crashes with Hughes still inside. The daredevil and conspiracy theorist had hoped to launch himself successfully into space to prove the world was flat.