On the upside, at least on flat-Earth humans would have the horizontal rain to point us in the right - well, north - direction.Īurora photographed by NASA astronaut Jack Fischer aboard the International Space Station.
It's hard to imagine a world without GPS, suffice to say we'd be lost. And critically, emergency services use GPS to locate callers from their phone signal, the satellite communications could possibly save your life. We depend on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for anything from the GPS services on your phone, to travel information and supermarket just-in-time stock management to make sure produce arrives as fresh and as quickly as possible. "There are a number of satellite missions that society depends on that just wouldn't work," James Davis, a geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said in a statement "I cannot think of how GPS would work on a flat Earth," said Davis.
It is likely that satellites would not exist if the Earth were flat, as they would have trouble orbiting a flat plane. And such a tweet would draw media attention, especially considering SpaceX has launched rockets into space more than 200 times and works with NASA, an agency that is unequivocal about our planet being spherical.It’s hard to imagine a world without GPS, suffice to say we’d be lost! (Image credit: Blend Images - Diego Cervo via Getty) It doesn’t appear in his Twitter feed, nor is there any news coverage of Musk saying this. We found no evidence that Musk said this. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The tweet then followed up with a question that lacked a question mark: "Anyone want to buy SpaceX," it read.Ī March 11 Instagram post sharing this image was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. "The world is flat and I can’t get past the firmament!" read what looked like an April 25 tweet from Musk, referring to an unfounded belief that Earth is covered in a dome called the firmament. The earth isn’t flat, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk didn’t say it was, either.Īn image of a purported tweet from the entrepreneur suggests otherwise.
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