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Q&A: The Earth and the Smell

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The Earth and the Smell

Question

Hello Rabbi Michi. 
When I talk with people who are into conspiracy theories regarding the shape of the Earth / the flat Earth, it really does seem that while it may be hard to argue with smart people, it’s impossible to argue with fools. It’s truly a fascinating phenomenon. 
Still, there are a few things I’d be glad to know how to answer for myself about their claims. 
1. Why, despite our technological progress and developments today, is there not even one real picture of the Earth? (What we see as supposedly a photograph of it from space is not really a photograph, but some software that creates it. This can be verified easily). 
2. The moon landing. How can it be that here too, despite today’s enormous technological progress, they have never managed to recreate man’s stepping on the moon again? It’s not reasonable that they succeeded then, when today they supposedly still can’t manage it. Doesn’t that raise serious questions? 

Answer

No, it doesn’t raise serious questions. The truth here is completely clear, and everything else is nonsense. The facts you mentioned here I don’t know and haven’t checked, so I can’t tell you whether they are correct or why. But even if they are correct, the Earth is round. Period.

Discussion on Answer

David S. (2024-11-14)

1. Where does this bizarre assertion come from? There are plenty of real photos, and not only from space agencies (from various countries—some of them enemies), but also from ordinary amateurs who launch small rockets to very high altitudes; you can start seeing the curvature. In successful launches the curvature is dramatic—a real dome, clearly a small part of a huge sphere.
2. It’s not that they can’t. They haven’t tried. It’s a hugely expensive project with no practical purpose; it was a significant part of the U.S. budget during the Cold War. Back then it had political importance, and since then it hasn’t.
By the way, NASA is planning launches to the moon sometime in the coming years.

Judah (2024-11-15)

1. There is not even one real picture of the globe.
2. In recent decades the U.S. has tried several times to launch a spacecraft to the moon, and each time it failed. Elon Musk is trying and failing.
NASA has been planning it for years but keeps “postponing” it again and again.

David S. (2024-11-15)

1. Do you have any support at all for this bizarre and baseless claim? Or are you just pretending to be someone who wants to refute the conspiracies? Because you’re treating this as if it were an agreed-upon fact. (Someone—maybe you—in another thread wrote that NASA admits the pictures aren’t real. That’s an outrageous lie.) Pictures of the Earth are taken every day by satellites, and there are thousands of accumulated pictures and videos from astronauts on the space station. There are entire websites with huge galleries of photographs from space, with credits and dates of the photography, etc. Satellite imagery is used daily for meteorology and more.

2. I believed you and thought you really wanted an answer—“know what to answer”… but you’re just a fraud. You’re simply making things up and hoping we won’t check? Neither NASA nor Musk tried to send anything to the moon—send even a minimal link documenting the matter, a faint hint.
NASA has been planning it for years because, as stated, this is a crazy mission. I’m not aware of any delay, but even if there was, that’s completely normal. According to your claim that everything is fake to begin with, why would they postpone or fail? Let them fake it successfully and that’s it. Similarly, why did Israel crash on the moon with Beresheet—why not land it, maybe even with a respectable human crew? After all, Hollywood has advanced a lot since 1969.

David S. (2024-11-15)

Just some random old footage from the space station (in the middle of it, the astronaut casually shows the view of Earth from the window). There are lots of videos like this from the space station, pretty much on a daily basis. Usually it’s just routine life on the space station and not all of them show the “view,” but countless ones do. There are also live streams from space right now.
A few days ago I sent here a video of an amateur who sent a rocket up with an action camera to a height where you can clearly see the curvature.

Eliav (2024-11-15)

When a physicist is asked how one can prove that the world is round, the first thing you hear is that a ship disappears over the horizon.
Anyone who understands a little knows that a ship does not disappear over the horizon and can be seen with cameras with large zoom, etc.; meaning there is no curvature, at least not visible to the eye.
There are recordings of places in the United States visible from distances where, according to calculations of the curvature, they should not be visible for kilometers.

Another thing: NASA is one of the most deceitful organizations there is, and if you believe a single word that comes out of their mouth—that’s a problem.
NASA’s satellites don’t go out into any space; they stay within the world and are lifted by helium balloons (NASA is the biggest purchaser of helium in the world—interesting why).

In addition, there were flights in the past that supposedly failed and the astronauts died, except that those same people were found under different names in other places around the world a few years later. There’s also a rumor that Ilan Ramon is alive, in the United States.

In any case, there are many things that don’t make sense, such as the size of the sun and the moon changing (at the enormous distance where they supposedly are, you shouldn’t see the difference, only the same size).
Likewise, it is said in the Torah that there is a separation in the firmament between the waters above the firmament and the waters below the firmament (the sea). If there is water above the firmament, how do we see the sun and the moon so easily, but a single cloud simply blocks them from us?

David S. (2024-11-15)

Eliav,
It may be that I’m just wasting words on people who won’t listen anyway. But watch the video I sent. There are comprehensive explanations there, and also footage of ships through telescopes—they disappear until only the mast is peeking out—at full size (magnified by telescope). By contrast, with a telescope you can easily see a plane even at a greater distance, and even galaxies can be seen—and of course their bottoms are never cut off…

P.S. There are many more proofs; you just got stuck on this one. This is the oldest proof in history. They talked about it in ancient Greece.
At a restaurant on a high balcony in a building in Dubai, the Ramadan fast ends a long time after it ends on the ground, because sunset still hasn’t happened. On the ground the sun disappears below the horizon line, and long afterward it can still be seen from a height.
This happens, of course, on much smaller scales too.

And you don’t need NASA. Almost every country has a space agency, including the U.S. and China. Israel and Iran. China and Taiwan. Ukraine and Russia, and so on. There are several private agencies, and of course Musk. In addition, many amateurs’ rockets manage to reach heights that document part of the globe.

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