A video of the “GO FAST!” rocket launch with nearly identical footage can be found ( youtu.be/ceCnJLwMdFk?t=57), and there is no mention of hitting a dome. The video appears to be from a Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT) rocket launch from 2014 ( here). “When the counterweights are released, you would expect both some vibrations (sound) and a sudden slowing of the spacecraft’s rotation.”

“That can be done with counterweights (the Kepler satellite had some, for example),” Steffen said. Steffen told Reuters that when the rocket apparently hit the dome and stopped spinning in the video, “there must have been some mechanism to slow the rotation”. “Rocket hitting the flat earth dome”, reads the title of one of the YouTube clips.īut the video does not show a rocket hitting a dome, according to Jason Steffen, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who has also been a member of NASA’s Kepler mission ( here) since 2008 ( here). The Instagram video includes a clip of a rocket allegedly hitting a dome, a longer version of which can be found ( youtu.be/IAcp3BFBYw4?t=83) and ( youtu.be/wdjxzh1O_X8?t=85).

VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW A ROCKET HITTING A DOME The word firmament generally refers to the arc of the sky but is regarded in biblical cosmology as the dome created by God separating the earthly realm from the heavens ( here).

The video also asserts that Admiral Richard Byrd, the American explorer who undertook multiple missions to the South Pole, found the edge of the dome in Antarctica, and that is the reason no one is allowed to visit that continent ( here).īut the video’s examples offer no proof of humans living under a dome or firmament, while there is ample evidence that no dome exists. One Instagram user shared a video that claims to offer “absolute proof that we do live under the dome or the firmament”, including footage of a rocket supposedly hitting a dome. Experts told Reuters that the idea, which originates with proponents of the Flat Earth theory, is false and that there is ample evidence of rockets reaching space without hitting a dome. Users on social media are saying people on Earth are living under a dome, also called a “firmament,” without providing evidence to support the claim.

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