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I still have a FB account since it's the only contact I have these days with a lot of my highschool friends. I logged in earlier today and saw this "NASA is a hoax" garbage in my "suggested" feed.

There's nothing in my history to suggest I have any interest in conspiracy theories. My friends are probably right-leaning on average (I'm from a small town in the south - so it goes), but I clicked and none of them are in that group. So I'm sort of assuming this is promoted. Joy.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What is the square supposed to be proving? That astronauts can put objects somewhere and they'll stay there in zero g? That's pretty much how zero g works.

[–] EvilLootbox 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Questioning how they have fresh fruit in space maybe? Without knowing anything about the logistics I don't think it's improbable, I'm sure lots of what's at my local grocery had been sitting in boats and trucks and warehouses for a good month before I see it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I doubt those plants are orange and apple trees tho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The orange slice appears to be balanced on its peel the way it would in gravity. But the ppl probably just placed it that way because that's what they're used to

[–] bizzle 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would you put the part you're going to eat on your yucky ol' space table? They put the peel side down because they're not maniacs.

[–] T00l_shed 5 points 10 months ago

I think you need to be a BIT of a maniac to strap yourself onto a rocket and blast off into space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would you put any part on the table when it could simply float 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There’s a clip that regularly goes around the internet of an astronaut doing something like drinking a glass of water and they just let it go and are shocked when it drops. I’m sure the same thing happens in space when they set something down and not perfectly still and it kind of floats away.

[–] bizzle 1 points 10 months ago

Alright fine 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's literally a picture taken on the space station.