NASA’s Most Famous Globe Image Was Made Using the Flat Earth

After searching tirelessly for hard evidence of a globular Earth, the honest investigator is forced to accept that there are countless images of the globe, but there are no photographs of it.

If there were, the debate between Globe and Flat Earth would be over in the blink of an eye. “Here’s a picture of it!” Ok, time to move onto something else…

In actuality, the pursuit for an unedited image of our habitat leads down paths which should cause concern. The most glaring example comes from the famous Blue Marble image from 2002.

This image was used by Apple on the Home Screen for the first iPhone which was released in 2007. It has been viewed more times and by more people than it is reasonably possible to count.

The average person would likely look at it and assume it is a photograph of Earth, as advertised, without a second thought. But the creator of the image, NASA Data Visualizer Robert Simmon, revealed a much different story.

Per NASA’s own website, here is a description of how the image was constructed:

“By 2002, we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire Earth. So we did. The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble.

I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. We never thought it would become an icon. I certainly never thought that I would become “Mr. Blue Marble.”

To the honest observer, Simmon’s statement should raise a number of red flags. He begins with the statement:

we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire Earth

This is an odd statement, as it would appear to be contradictory. The official definition of the word snapshot is:

• An informal photograph taken quickly, typically with a small handheld camera

By definition, a snapshot is a photograph. Snapshots only require someone to take a quick picture, therefore the process shouldn’t be reliant on any data collection. Imagine if strangers at a National Park asked you to take a quick snapshot of them, and you stood there waiting to take a picture, staring at them, and they asked “What are you doing?”, and you replied “Waiting to gather enough data”, they would likely feel very creeped out and ask for their camera back. Point being — a snapshot should be pretty simple.

The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data

This is another bizarre phrase, given that a picture of a spherical Earth shouldn’t be reliant on a flat map

Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball.

Here we see Simmons openly admitting that his famous image of the globe was constructed by wrapping a flat surface around a ball. This wouldn’t need to be the case if Earth were a sphere, but it would be necessary if Earth were flat, and he were merely trying to present it as spherical. It should not go unnoticed that in Simmon’s explanation of how he created the image of the spherical earth, he used the word “flat” twice.

My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble.

Simmon’s statement continues to get even more troubling. He admits that his construction of the globe not only came from a flat map wrapped around a ball, but that he based the finer details off of public expectations. It should now be abundantly clear that this famous image of Earth is not a photograph or “snapshot”; rather, it is a product of imagination and artistry based off of what the public wants to see. This would be acceptable for a movie or tv show, but rather unacceptable for an organization which purports to regularly travel into outer space at the expense of the American taxpayer. Furthermore, it should come off as puzzling given NASA’s alleged capabilities and achievements during its prior missions.

1977: Voyager 1 — Alleged to have explored the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter (Budget = $865 Million)

(Yes, these are “real” photos found on NASA’s website)

1990: Hubble Space Telescope — Supposedly snapped images from the universe’s most distant galaxies (Budget = $16 Billion)

1996: Mars Pathfinder — According to legend, Sojourner reached the surface of Mars on July 4, 1997 (Budget = $265 Million)

1997: Cassini — This mission gathered information on Saturn’s rings (Budget = $3.26 Billion)

Given that NASA allegedly possesses the capability to send telescopes, cameras, probes, and rovers to far away places within the solar system, it seems reasonable to expect they should have the ability to photograph our very own Earth. They might consider simply turning the camera or telescope around during any of these missions, and capturing our home. As a bonus, it’d be even cooler to witness Earth’s rotation, or to see it pass between the sun & moon during a lunar eclipse, as we’re told that it does. Perhaps they could even capture a video of the tens of thousands of satellites which allegedly orbit us (or a single one for that matter).

But puzzlingly, despite the ability to ostensibly travel deep into space, NASA felt the need to use artistry to construct its most famous image of our world. Perhaps this could be seen as somewhat acceptable, if there were an abundance of other Earth images captured by NASA, which they simply didn’t feel were aesthetic enough to present to the American public. But no such images exist — including from any of its missions from the years 1972 to 2002. None of these missions apparently ever thought that a picture of Earth might be interesting or relevant to the public.

Furthermore, we’re told the Blue Marble couldn’t be based on real photographs of Earth, rather they chose to base it off of public expectations. This seems like somewhat circular logic, given that the expectations of the public were based off of NASA’s imagery in the first place. They designed an image to appeal to the imaginations of the masses, but the imagination of the masses had been shaped via NASA and its friends in film & media to begin with.

That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if the goal is scientific or informative in nature. But it makes perfect sense if the goal is entertainment, deception, and profiteering.

NASA’s most famous image of Earth is merely an artist’s creation, and so are all the others. The goal is to passively implant the image of the globe in people’s minds, while most don’t notice or care to investigate its authenticity. The essence of mind control is repetition, while the essence of truth seeking is honest investigation.