I know all those at the tip of the beak get the reference in
the title… but for the uninitiated: Robert Simmon created a “blue marble”
depiction of earth used as the default image on the first iPhone. In reference
to the production of the famous image, Simmon said, “It’s Photoshopped, but….
It… it HAS to be.” Many a ball believer has claimed that this is taken “out of
context.” But I ask you, what context are they referring to?
Are they referring to the context of NASA being unable, in
2017, to provide a genuine photograph of earth from outer space? Are they
referring to the fact that—even though NASA claims to have gone to the moon
multiple times circa the 1960s and 70s—they are still unable to show us the
earth in real time, as a spherical mass, rotating on its axis in outer space?
But
the story behind the much-admired image that introduced the world to the
iPhone—known as the “Blue Marble”— is worth telling in its own right. Simmon, a
data-visualizer and designer at NASA’s Earth Observatory, created the image in
2002. He told Quartz it’s not a photograph, but a sophisticated visualization.
Images
of the earth may seem commonplace, but there are actually very few pictures of
the entire planet. The problem, Simmon said, is all the NASA earth-observing
satellites are in low-earth or geostationary orbit, meaning none of them are
far enough away to see a full hemisphere. The most familiar pictures of the
entire Earth are from the 1960s and 1970s Apollo missions to the moon.
So when I say FEPE’s armor has to be thick, this is why:
because it doesn’t seem to matter how obvious NASA’s deceptions are, the
majority of people will accept AND defend them as absolute truth. These are
people who sincerely believe NASA to be a saintly educational organization that
seeks to share the secrets of the universe with them. Humanity can no longer
afford to be this naïve.
GOOGLE Syndrome
The problem is much deeper than the seemingly unbreakable
faith the masses have in NASA. With the internet at their fingertips, people
navigate their lives believing that the entirety of human knowledge is a few
keystrokes away. What they fail to realize: most of that highly accessible information
is—pardon my crass language—HORSESHIT. There is tremendous danger in convincing
ignorant people that they have a firm grasp on the nature of reality.
We are living in what is called the “Information Age”. Let’s
break that down by looking at some definitions:
in·for·ma·tion (noun)
1. facts provided or learned about
something or someone. "a vital piece of information"
2. what is conveyed or represented
by a particular arrangement or sequence of things.
COMPUTING: data as processed,
stored, or transmitted by a computer.
(in information theory) a
mathematical quantity expressing the probability of occurrence of a particular
sequence of symbols, impulses, etc., as contrasted with that of alternative
sequences.
Origin
Definition number one is the most common application for the
word information; most people automatically associate the word information with
“facts”. However, the subsequent definitions paint a very different picture. What
I am driving at here is this: information and knowledge are not necessarily the
same thing. I could produce 100 pages of drivel—absolute gibberish—and those
100 pages could technically be defined as “information”. That does not mean a
single sentence on a single page contains a shred of actual knowledge.
By contrast, let’s look at the definitions for knowledge:
knowl·edge (noun)
1. facts, information, and skills
acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or
practical understanding of a subject. what is known in a particular field or in
total; facts and information.
PHILOSOPHY: true, justified belief;
certain understanding, as opposed to opinion.
2. awareness or familiarity gained
by experience of a fact or situation. "the program had been developed
without his knowledge"
Knowledge represents FACTS earned via real world experience.
Knowledge is based on universally repeatable observations; it is not based on
opinion. The words “information” and “knowledge” are NOT interchangeable.
Information CAN be knowledge but it is not a requirement to fulfill the word’s
definition. In other words, knowledge is always information but information is
not always knowledge.
So proclaiming we live in an “Information Age” most
certainly does NOT mean we live in an age of knowledge; it only means that
there are vast quantities of information available that may or may not qualify
as actual knowledge. And these are the word games the establishment plays incessantly.
CONCLUSION
When it comes to spreading awareness about flat earth, we
are dealing with a worldwide citizenry who believes they have access to a vast
wealth of KNOWLEDGE. This emboldens them. This has convinced them that they
have all the answers… that they are all a mere keystroke away. This makes the
task of presenting the truth of our flat and motionless plane especially
difficult.
We must be patient. We must be persistent and dedicated. We
must be unflappable.
And yes, our armor must be thick. The masses believe they
live in an age of knowledge when, in truth, it is an age of informational noise
as vast as it is empty.
—Ty Gorton
