Hey Flat Earthers, let’s check your dome model, with the atmosphere we actually observe and see… oops … Your dome has a problem, by your own rules. You say you can't have gas pressure next to a vacuum. That's why the dome has to exist. Now, you also say it's not gravity, it's relative density. Denser air settles to the bottom. Fine. But even you will admit the air gets thinner the higher you go. Want to climb Mount Everest and tell me there's plenty of air up there? Or step out of an airplane at 40,000 feet and tell me there's plenty of air? Keep going. By the Kármán line, about 62 miles up, the pressure is nearly zero. By the height of the ISS, 250 miles up, I think everybody agrees there's basically no air. Now go four times higher. 1,000 miles up. Your Sun is supposed to be much higher than that, and your dome is higher still. So we're well inside it. I'm pretty sure you'll say there's no air at 1,000 miles. I'd call that a vacuum. So under your own dome, you've got a vacuum sitting right on top of the air we breathe. Gas pressure next to a vacuum. The exact thing you said can't happen. So which is it? Either gas pressure can sit next to a vacuum, and you never needed the dome. Or gas in a sealed container evens out, same pressure top to bottom. But we know that can't possibly be true, because anyone can verify that the air gets thinner as you go higher. This is a fact that can be checked by anyone. No trusting authority, no math required, no special equipment. Climb a mountain with your phone, check the barometer app, and let me know if it stayed the same as at sea level. Pick one.

Speaking of false flags, I can’t help noticing how closely the Flydubai conspiracy theories resemble the ones surrounding 9/11. Israel and Jews are quickly dragged into the story, of course. ABC News Verify found false-flag accusations appearing within hours, including claims blaming Israel, Mossad and “Zionists,” before investigators had even established the co-pilot’s motive. But the more amusing similarity is what happens when you actually examine the “evidence.” You can practically make a laundry list of the claims and put a giant red X beside every one. Oxygen masks / water cups ❌ Claims the event was staged by Israel? No evidence. ❌ Claims the passengers were actors? No evidence. ❌ Claims the flight data don’t support the event? ❌ Unrelated aircraft footage passed off as FZ1073? ❌ Claims there was no injured captain or restrained co-pilot? ❌ Meanwhile, a UAE-led investigation is underway, the Omani co-pilot is in custody, Saudi authorities handled the initial investigation, and multiple independent witnesses and data sources corroborate the basic sequence of events. Public ADS-B data supporting the flight performance… And yet the same claims keep coming. Debunked once? Repeat it. Debunked 100 times? Repeat it. Debunked 1,000 times? Make another post, slap “FALSE FLAG” across the top and collect another million impressions. That may be the most striking similarity to 9/11 conspiracy theories: the claims don’t survive examination, but they don’t need to. They only need to be repeated faster than they can be corrected. There is a law for that …

ABOUT THOSE “THOUSANDS OF ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS”… You’ll often hear 9/11 conspiracists say that thousands of architects and engineers reject the official explanation. Sounds impressive. Until you use a denominator. AE911Truth’s own website lists 3,663 verified architect and engineer signatories demanding a new investigation. The World Federation of Engineering Organizations represents more than 30 million engineers. The International Union of Architects represents about 3.2 million architects. That’s roughly 33.2 million professionals represented by those two worldwide organizations. 3,663 compared with 33.2 million is about 0.01%. Not 10%. Not 5%. Not 1%. One-hundredth of one percent. And that’s being generous. It’s a petition, not a scientific survey. Signing it does not require being a structural engineer, a fire-protection engineer, or having personally investigated the collapses. Now look at who actually did. NIST put more than 200 professionals and technical experts on its investigation. They interviewed 1,056 surviving occupants and 116 emergency responders, examined hundreds of recovered structural-steel components, analyzed thousands of photographs, videos and audio records, held 23 public meetings, subjected the reports to external advisory review, and ultimately published about 11,000 pages on the towers and WTC 7. And NIST didn’t start from scratch. The earlier FEMA/ASCE Building Performance Assessment Team included specialists in structural engineering, fire protection, blast effects and tall-building design. The participating professional organizations included ASCE/SEI, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, NFPA, the American Institute of Steel Construction and the Structural Engineers Association of New York. Alongside that, the FBI conducted the largest investigation in its history. More than 4,000 special agents and 3,000 professional employees participated. They pursued more than 500,000 leads, conducted more than 167,000 interviews, processed more than 150,000 pieces of evidence, and took more than 170,000 photographs. The 9/11 Commission reviewed more than 2.5 million pages of documents, interviewed more than 1,200 people in ten countries, held 19 days of hearings and heard public testimony from 160 witnesses. The major structural, fire-protection and building-engineering organizations involved in the WTC investigations did not adopt controlled demolition as their explanation. Minority opinions are fine. Science absolutely can overturn consensus. But you do that with better evidence and a better explanation - not by repeatedly announcing that you found 3,663 people willing to sign a petition. More than 25 years later, controlled demolition still has not displaced the engineering explanation. Counting dissenters is not engineering. Producing a better model that explains the evidence is.

September 11 is a week away. Normal people will spend that day remembering September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 human beings were murdered. We will remember the people who went to work that morning and never came home. The firefighters, police officers, paramedics and civilians who ran toward danger. The passengers and crew of Flight 93 who realized what was happening and fought back. Families will remember husbands, wives, parents, children, brothers, sisters and friends. And then the conspiracy crowd will arrive. For them, September 11 is their second birthday. They have been waiting all year to drag the same decomposing pile of conspiracy garbage back onto social media and pretend they have discovered something. THERMITE. CONTROLLED DEMOLITION. FREE FALL. BUILDING 7. THE $2.3 TRILLION. JET FUEL. MOSSAD. CIA. NO PLANES. MISSILES. "INSIDE JOB." Same shit. Different year. There will be no new evidence. There will be no stunning revelation. There will be no newly discovered engineering problem that thousands of structural engineers somehow overlooked for 25 years. There will just be the same memes, the same cropped photographs, the same selectively edited videos, the same fake quotations, the same misunderstood physics, the same junk papers and the same questions that have been answered so many times that entire websites, books and technical reports exist solely because conspiracy addicts refuse to read the answers. I've watched this ritual for years. Someone posts a meme. You explain why it's wrong. They change subjects. You answer that claim. They post another meme. You provide photographs, eyewitness accounts, structural analysis, flight records, physical evidence and engineering explanations. They disappear. Then September rolls around again and they post the original meme like the previous conversation never happened. That should tell you something. These people are not investigating September 11. They're performing. They get to imagine themselves as fearless truth-seekers who discovered a secret invisible to engineers, investigators, journalists, pilots, firefighters, scientists, eyewitnesses and everyone else on Earth. And apparently the anniversary of thousands of people's deaths is too irresistible an opportunity for engagement farming to pass up. So yes, I already know what's coming. They'll crawl out with their annual collection of recycled bullshit, and I'll be there correcting as much of it as I can. Not because I expect the hardcore conspiracy addicts to suddenly develop standards of evidence. I do it because everyone else is watching. And because the people who died on September 11 deserve remembrance, dignity and truth. They deserve better than becoming props in somebody's annual conspiracy cosplay.

The argument goes like this: vaccinated people were gullible, obedient, low-information "sheep" who blindly followed authority, while the people who refused were the smarter ones who questioned everything and saw through the scam. So I got curious: What does the evidence actually show about cognitive ability and vaccination? As it turns out, researchers have looked at this. The strongest example is a Swedish study of more than 700,000 people. Their cognitive ability had been measured years earlier during military assessment, so the researchers weren't asking people to rate their own intelligence after deciding whether to vaccinate. They then compared those scores with actual COVID vaccination records. The result was clear and graded: As measured cognitive ability increased, vaccination increased. The highest scoring group reached 80% first-dose uptake in about 50 days. The lowest took about 180. The relationship persisted even in comparisons between twins, helping control for shared family background and many socioeconomic differences. (Elinder, Erixson & Öhman, Journal of Health Economics 2023;91:102802) An Israeli study of more than 185,000 military personnel found the same direction, using cognitive scores recorded years before the pandemic and actual vaccination records: those who adhered to the recommended schedule scored higher than those who didn't. (Zur et al., Vaccine 2023;41(40):5848-5853) A UK cohort study found lower pre-pandemic cognitive ability associated with greater vaccine hesitancy, with the odds of hesitancy rising 76% per standard deviation lower score, still elevated after adjusting for education. That one measured stated intention rather than behavior, so I'd weight it less. Worth noting the same cohort showed the pattern for seasonal flu too, so this isn't a COVID-specific artifact. (Batty et al., Brain Behav Immun 2021;96:100-105; Halstead et al., Vaccine 2022;40(31):4488-4495) One detail I find more interesting than the scoreboard: when one Swedish region simply mailed people pre-booked appointments, almost the entire gap closed. That points at friction and complexity rather than comprehension of immunology. Now, none of this means every vaccinated person is intelligent or every vaccine refuser is stupid. These are population-level associations with substantial overlap, and vaccine uptake is not the same thing as ideological anti-vaccine belief. But it does create a fairly spectacular problem for the "vaccinated people are gullible sheep while the smart people refused" narrative. If that story were true, you'd expect cognitive ability to trend in the opposite direction. It doesn't. So rejecting vaccines is not evidence that someone is smarter than the people who accepted them. If anything, the population-level evidence points the other way. 🤓

Things you can do with a drone because the Earth is a slowly rotating globe with a distant sun. Watch the sunset twice 🌅 (Sunrises and Sunsets are impossible on a flat earth)