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Flat Earth Believers Looking At Artemis Earth Photos

This meme pokes fun at flat Earth conspiracy theorists, visualizing their reaction when looking at new photos of a spherical Earth captured by NASA's Artemis program crew. It uses a dramatic close-up shot of an astronaut (Joseph Cooper from the film *Interstellar*) staring out a spacecraft window to represent this uncomfortable confrontation with evidence that contradicts their conspiracy belief. The on-image text contains a minor typo, spelling 'believers' as 'believeers'.
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Flat Earth believeers looking at gorgeous spherical Earth pics from the Artemis crew

Overview

This meme pokes fun at flat Earth conspiracy theorists, visualizing their reaction when looking at new photos of a spherical Earth captured by NASA's Artemis program crew. It uses a dramatic close-up shot of an astronaut (Joseph Cooper from the film Interstellar) staring out a spacecraft window to represent this uncomfortable confrontation with evidence that contradicts their conspiracy belief. The on-image text contains a minor typo, spelling 'believers' as 'believeers'.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, originally posted under the title 'Thank you NASA'. It repurposes a still frame from the 2014 science fiction film Interstellar to create a joke mocking the flat Earth conspiracy theory, referencing the new photos of Earth released during NASA's Artemis space program. The meme plays on the contradiction between flat Earth beliefs and direct photographic evidence of a spherical Earth from space.

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