{"id":281447,"date":"2016-11-27T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281447"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:13:18","slug":"the-earth-is-flat-rts-space-360-leads-to-age-old-conspiracy-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/the-earth-is-flat-rts-space-360-leads-to-age-old-conspiracy-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Earth is flat\u201d: RT\u2019s \u2018Space 360\u2019 leads to age old conspiracy accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The morning laugh\u2026 hard to believe some people still believe that the earth is flat\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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There’s a lot of discussion around “fake news” at the moment, but it seems RT has found itself in the middle of a different type of “fakery.” RT’s Space 360 project has been accused of being faked. Why? Because the “Earth is flat,” apparently.<\/p>\n

Such accusations were leveled after cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko said that the Earth was round during one the 360\u00b0 video documentaries, which were recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), in collaboration with RT.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see from here that the Earth is round \u2013 no elephants or whales holding it up,\u201d\u00a0he said, commencing a tirade of accusations, including\u00a0\u201cBS! Why use a fisheye lens to show convince people that the earth is round.that camera is twisting and turning everything in front of it. I personally don’t think that anyone believes this BS.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others hit out at the opening of each clip which shows the ISS orbiting the Earth, accusing it of being fabricated on a computer. For once the conspiracy theorists are right, kinda, because this isn\u2019t actually a conspiracy.<\/p>\n

The opening footage is actually computer generated, as it depicts a short clip that would be next to impossible to recreate, even with today\u2019s camera technology.<\/p>\n

Some viewers believed, however, that RT were trying to portray these shots as 100 percent real, commenting\u00a0\u201cI think the CGI at the beginning says it all really. An insult to humanity’s intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLOL LOL!!!!! Poor CGI even ‘Gravity’ the Hollywood movie seemed more real! Pathetic, proving again and again the Fraudulent NAZA [sic] and the points made by the Flat Earth awakening movement that we are not in space!\u201c\u00a0another commenter said.<\/p>\n

A number of viewers have asked if a space walk will be filmed using the 360 video in order to help verify that the cosmonauts are actually in space and not a Hollywood studio. RT hopes to be able to do this in the future, but for now this isn\u2019t something we have scheduled. Don’t worry though, there will still be plenty of other videos to watch.<\/p>\n

We can safely say that everything else viewers see after the intro is real. We\u2019ll have to take the cosmonaut\u2019s word for it but we also are happy enough that the Earth is round too. Our apologies to those thinking they had just blown the lid on one of the best kept secrets of our time.<\/p>\n

For now, put your mind at ease and enjoy RT\u2019s pioneering project which puts viewers inside the ISS, a safe distance from the lizard people back on Earth.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/368374-rt-space-360-conspiracy\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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