UPDATE (27JAN2016): Elektro-L: Flat Earth Debunking Modern Russian Satellite System

I reported here about a potential connection between the exponential surge of flat earth activity on the internet and elsewhere starting in October 2014 and the controverisal documentary, “THE PRINCIPLE“, which screened in Chicago at that same time, along with the simultaneous attack on Executive Producer Robert Sungenis by the SPLC.

Flat Earth is a PsyOp to Attack Documentary “The Principle”

The documentary “THE PRINCIPLE” has been attacked freakishly by top scientists led by Lawrence Krauss and Kate Mulgrew because, frankly, they do not want the public to understand what current cosmology is telling us! As explained in the linked article, Lawrence Krauss was featured in the film, and Kate Mulgrew narrated it! Without going into further detail (see this link for more), I will state that everything changed with new data from 2013, two years after Lawrence Krauss’ interviews, and I suspect that they realized the magnitude of what he and the other scientists revealed in their interviews in 2011!.

I showed this graph from Google Trends illustrating flat earth internet activity in the previous article indicating that the exponential lift-off occured simultaneously with the screening of “THE PRINCIPLE” in Chicago and the attack by the SPLC.

As an update, a few developments have occured that are worthy of reporting.

Flat Earth Promoter Violates Copyright for “THE PRINCIPLE”

A Flat Earth Channel, “Yoda’s Flat Earth Channel”, posted “THE PRINCIPLE” on YouTube violating its copyright. YouTube has removed it due to copyright infringement. More will follow from the producers as appropriate legal actions are pursued.

Pop Stars are Jumping on the Flat Earth Bandwagon!

Tila Tequila has hopped aboard the flat earth bandwagon. She tweeted, “It’s 2016 & nobodys been able 2 prove 2 me that the earth is round. Where is the curvature in the horizon? #FlatEarth prove me wrong dammit!”.

Rapper BoB followed with a a series of tweets presenting flat earth arguments.

The Guardian and Huffington Post are Reporting on Flat Earth

The Guardian has written two stories about flat earth in January 2016, here and here.

The second article, “Flat-Earthers aren’t the only ones getting things wrong”,interestingly attempts to tie flat earth with “Galileo’s 17th Century Critics”, a jab at Robert Sungnis who wrote Galileo Was Wrong, and was Executive Producer of “THE PRINCIPLE”. Interestingly, also, they managed to do this while staying true to the media blackout of “THE PRINCIPLE”, by not mentioning who “Galileo’s 17th Century Critics” are, or as one of the media participants stated in the ‘media blackout’ link, “For those of you who are scandalized that a film narrated by a well-known TV celebrity with some well-known scientists promotes geocentricism, here is my suggestion, Let’s all stop talking about it from today on. And so we shall.”

UPDATE: I need to retitle this article The Guardian Goes into Overdrive over Flat Earth! They ahve added these articles today. Here here, and here.

HOLY COW: NYTimes weighs in, HERE. CNN, FOX. Many more!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Huffington Post has also recently reported on the issue.

Whomever are running this operation are hysterically desperate to keep the public from seeing “THE PRINCIPLE”, and the amazing revelations science cannot ignore.

I am not saying that Tila Tequila or BoB are in on the attack of “THE PRINCIPLE”. They probably just came across the propoganda and reacted to it, but it is a sign that the campaign against “THE PRINCIPLE” has been successful. It is also a sign for everyone to see just how desperate that some in the science establishment are about stopping “THE PRINCIPLE”, …The Most Dangerous Movie Ever.

BONUS IMAGES:

Flat earth proponents are always asking for a non-composite image of the whole earth from space. Well, the Russian Elekro-L satellite provides that. You can view and download recent images here. This image and the video below contain real color plus some false color (near infrared). The near infrared bands are useful for detecting vegetation. In false color, vegetation looks orange. Real color images are also available.

Here are some sequential images. Beautiful.

BONUS IMAGE 2:

Here is the calcualted orbit of one of the Elektro-L satellites. The camera has a 20 degeree field of view. This would mean that it would need to be 36,140 km from the earth’s midplane (based on nominal earth radius) to capture the full image of earth. The midplane sits at 42,165 km (note that the altitude in yellow refers to altitude at the closest point, not midplane), more than adequate.