What is going on with this community? It’s full of obvious troll posts like this. Do mods exist? Or do they have their hands full?

I’ve earnestly answered some of your other questions, when it was quite clear you were either trolling or incredibly stubborn, and this additional question (which purposefully ignores the basic answers I gave you weeks ago) makes it obvious you don’t actually want to learn anything. Stop asking questions if you don’t intend to genuinely engage with the people who are taking the time to respond.

Okay I just want to say:

Bro looking at your last two posts… if you’re not trolling, you might want to get some help before you really go off the deep end. Reminds me of unsuccessfully trying to convince a friend they’re about to “invest” in a pyramid scheme.

How do you imagine having an “open discussion” when you reject overwhelming evidence out of hand?

More specifically, what openness will you bring?

There have been photos of Earth from space since 1946. There’s a Japanese geostationary satellite named Himawari-8 which takes a photo of the Earth every ten minutes.

The Earth isn’t flat and even the ancient Greeks proved it to be spherical. Some people don’t want to understand physics, and they feel fulfilled by thinking they’re “in the know” about something secret.

I don’t think you’re allowed to post stupid questions in this community.

We actually have hundreds of photos of Earth from space and more than a few astronauts that make it a full-time hobby to photograph our little blue marble. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation (two actually) for why those photos look fake, and while far more mundane, it doesn’t require the application of any ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Explanation Uno: There isn’t anything in space like a pesky atmosphere to get the way of the camera lens and create distortions and imperfections. The result is images that look a little too crisp, a little too clean, and a little too colorful. They don’t look like the ‘normal’ images we are used to, so our brains tell us it’s wrong or fake. It’s called the uncanny valley, which is typically applied to images of people but it’s relevant to anything that breaks our normal just a little.

Explanation Zwei: The images are actually fake, or rather they are false color images. Pictures are great, but it’s kinda hard to do a lot of science if all one ever does is look at the visible color spectrum, so we also take pictures in other spectrums like infrared, radio, or ultraviolet. However, since our pathetic human eyes can’t see those wavelengths, we have to recolor them to something we can see in the visible light range (hot things are colored blue, cold things are colored red, etc.). It’s not lying, it’s just better science.

There are plenty of things in this world actually worth being concerned about, especially right now, but if none of this convinced you, let me ask you this; Why? Why would anyone fake every single photo of Earth ever taken from space? Why (or more importantly, how) would literally everyone agree to lie about going to space?

You got banned from ELI5 because they thought you were actually 5 lmao.

There’s a certain neurological disorder where people can look at their own reflections and believe them to be fake or inhuman. I would expect them to make posts very similar to this one.

this is my favorite picture of earth /s

Ok… I will engage…

Why do they look fake?

There are no stupid questions.

But there are in fact, some very stupid ones.

Same answer as previous time you asked this question: There are. Plenty of them too. And if you believe all of them to be fake, there’s no evidence of a round earth that you’ll be prepared to accept.