Who’s Telling Truth About The Firmament On Earth And Sun Moon Luminaries Part 2

Who’s Telling Truth About The Firmament On Earth And Sun Moon Luminaries Part 2... Day Two Creation is the most overlooked day in creation week story. It's important to understand the home setting that God created for Himself, the angels/spirits and for us. Join us as I explore the overall significance of day two on Earth, while also hinting at its eschatological implications nearing the end of the video. 1958 Encyclopedia Americana mention the dome above are flat earth in Antarctic. The same year the Antarctic Treaty was born, prohibiting free travel under the 60. south width. and the Sun is only 3,002 Miles Above the Earth Surface in the 7 layer of the Firmament from the water above and the water below.

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In 1956, US military aircraft proved that a dome covers the Earth at a height of 13000 feet (~ 4000 meters) of 90 degrees south (80. degrees). This is left out of all the new edition of this 1959 On Encyclopedia Americana Documents..

‘Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. And God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.’ Genesis 1:6–8

I know many have strong opinions about the Book of Enoch. Whatever your opinion may be on it, the fact remains, it was well known to the authors of Scripture, to the point where Jude even quoted directly from it, while under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. At the very least, it shows the mindset of the Hebrews (including the authors of the canonized text), confirming the belief they (and the entire Ancient Near East) had concerning the shape and nature of the Earth and its place in the cosmos:

https://ia600300.us.archive.org/33/items/1611TheAuthorizedKingJamesBible/1611%20The%20Authorized%20King%20James%20Bible.pdf

ENOCH AND THE STILL FLAT EARTH
When it comes to the Book of Enoch, I know many want to dispute whether or not we should consider it canon, or even a valid source for deriving, confirming and/or elaborating on the canonized Biblical truths. Many commentaries have been written giving the various perceived pros can cons of doing so. For me, I have no need to consider it "Scripture." However, I do value it primarily because the authors of Scripture certainly did, even to the point of directly quoting from it, while under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Concerning the seeming ambiguities of canonized Scripture as it pertains to the issues being addressed here in this essay, I like the way Robert Schadewald handles the Book of Enoch in his online article:

Ambiguities in ancient documents can often be elucidated by consulting contemporary documents. The most important ancient document describing Hebrew cosmology is 1 Enoch (sometimes called the Ethiopic Book of Enoch), one of those long, disjointed, scissors and paste jobs beloved by ancient scribes. For a dozen or so centuries, European scholars knew 1 Enoch only from numerous passages preserved in the patristic literature. In 1773, the Scottish adventurer James Bruce found complete copies in Ethiopia.

Numerous manuscripts of 1 Enoch have since been found in Ethiopian monasteries. Turn of the century scholars concluded that parts of the book are pre-Maccabean, and most (perhaps all) of it was composed by 100 B.C. [Charles, 1913]. These conclusions were largely vindicated when numerous fragments of 1 Enoch were found among the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.

First Enoch is important for another reason. Unlike the canonical books of the Bible, which (in my view) were never meant to teach science, sections of 1 Enoch were intended to describe the natural world. The narrator sometimes sounds like a 2nd century B.C. Carl Sagan explaining the heavens and earth to the admiring masses. The Enochian cosmology is precisely the flat-earth cosmology previously derived from the canonical books.

Whether or not we consider the Book of Enoch to be Scripture is irrelevant. If you at least accept it as having any measure of credibility as a contemporary Biblical commentary, you'll see this concept of a flat/enclosed earth is described in even more detail by its writer(s), thus revealing how the ancient Hebrews viewed the heavens, earth, sun, moon and stars when thy both wrote and read the canonized texts. For Enoch to have been so well preserved in multiple copies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and for authors such as Jude and later "Church Fathers" to quote directly from it, this shows us the book was held in high regard, at least well into the first few centuries AD. I contend it is still worthy of taking notice of in our day as well. Especially, when you consider the opening words of the book:

1 Enoch 1:1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. 2. And he took up his parable and said--Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.

I believe we are that remote, future generation, that was to come and live "in the day of tribulation." As many of you know, I published a book called, Genesis and the Synchronized, Biblically-Endorsed, Extra-Biblical Texts a couple of years ago, which includes the book of 1 Enoch. In the Introduction to that volume, I wrote that I was putting together a stand-alone version of the Book of Enoch with footnotes and commentary. As I began working on that, I found that when you get to about chapter 17 or so, you start finding some very interesting descriptions of heaven and earth, which sound a lot like the Flat/Enclosed Earth model. We will now explore just a handful of them here.

Enoch's view on the nature of the earth:
1 Enoch 18:1. I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which bear [ the earth and ] the firmament of the heaven. 3. And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars of the heaven . 4. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting. 5. I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the south. 7. And as for those towards the east, 〈 one 〉 was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone. 8. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire. 9. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains 10. is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. 11. And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the height and towards the depth. 12. And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place.
Is Job 26:7 (concerning the earth hanging on "nothing") just a confirmation of what Enoch is saying here? Enoch described a place where there was nothing. Job describes the same:

Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Enoch clearly describes the earth on a foundation (like so many other authors as seen above). But he also describes a place beyond the ends of the earth. A place of horrible nothingness. Whatever your view may be, it is clear, either one of these authors has borrowed from the other or they both were inspired by the same Source. Enoch again describes this place...

1 Enoch 21: 1. And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. 2. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible.
1 Enoch 23:1. From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth.
1 Enoch 33:1. And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other. 2. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. 3. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. 4. He showed all things to me and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.

Enoch's view on the nature of the sun, moon and stars:

1 Enoch 72:
1. The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide, showed me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity. 2. And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven. 3. And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals. 4. And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. 5. The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the appropriate (lit. 'that') portal and shines in the face of the heaven. 6. In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal, which is the fourth those six portals in the cast. 7. And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their season. 8. When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal thirty mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven. 9. And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth morning. 10. On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts. 11. And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal. 12. And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven parts, and the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts. 13. And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the sixth portal one-and-thirty mornings on account of its sign. 14. On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened and becomes six parts. 15. And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. 16. And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. 17. And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west again in the fifth western portal. 18. On that day the day decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts. 19. And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one-and-thirty mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west. 20. On that day the day is equalized with the night, [and becomes of equal length], and the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts. 21. And the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in the third portal. 22. And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts. 23. And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven. 24. And on that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts. 25. And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven. 26. And on that day the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts and the day to six. 27. And the sun has (therewith) traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in the west opposite to it. 28. And on that night has the night decreased in length by a †ninth† part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts. 29. And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting. 30. And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the day to eight. 31. And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven. 32. On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and sixty-four. 33. And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise--through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit. 'they are separated'). 34. So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter. 35. And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises, i.e. the great luminary which is named the sun, for ever and ever. 36. And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. 37. As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.

Whether or not David ever read the Book of Enoch, he certainly seemed to have had a very similar view of the sun as a male, coming out of a chamber (or portal):

Psalms 19:
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Here is Enoch's take on the moon...

1 Enoch 73: 1. And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon. 2. And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure. 3. And her rising and setting change every month: and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (i.e. full) it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. 4. And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises. 5. And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part of her light. 6. And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof. 7. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] the moon sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them. 8. And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the (remaining) thirteen parts.

Enoch goes into a great amount of detail in chapters 72 - 82 concerning the heavenly luminaries. I just posted the beginning chapters above. You can read the rest for yourself, beginning in chapter 74, here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe077.htm. In chapter 78, we read a bit more about the names, size, and movements of the sun and moon...

1 Enoch 78:1. And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjârês, and the second Tômâs. 2. And the moon has four names: the first name is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe. 3. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike. 4. In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is s transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. 5. And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven. 6. And when the moon rises one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light becomes full in her: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 7. And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by (the addition of) fourteenth parts. 8. And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. 10. And Uriel showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun. 11. During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in the heaven], and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the heaven. 12. And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. 13. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun. 14. On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. 15. And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy-seven days. 16. And in the time of her going out she appears for three months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears (of) twenty-nine each. 17. At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light.

If Enoch is to be believed, then the sun is not massively huge and tens of millions of miles away and the moon is not as big as we have been told it is either, and is much closer than the hundreds of thousands of miles we have been taught it is away from us.

The stars, according to Enoch have set courses and portals in the dome through which they are to come and go as well.

1 Enoch 18:12. And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. 13. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, 14. The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. 16. And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years.'

This does not paint a picture of stars as "suns" burning out in space, but rather of intelligent beings that have been commanded what to do. Those that have disobeyed are punished. According to 1 Enoch 20, the angel Raguel is the one who acts as sort of a policeman of the stars:

1 Enoch 20:4. Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries.

The "lake of fire" that has been "prepared for the devil and his angels" that we read about in the canonized texts of the New Testament, may have been understood in the light of 1 Enoch 21:

1 Enoch 21:1. And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. 2. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. 4. Then I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?' 5. Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? 6. These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.' 7. And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture. 8. Then I said: 'How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!' 9. Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?' And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' 10. And he said unto me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'

In the Book of Enoch we see that the stars are to follow specific courses and not deviate from them. If they do, they are punished for violating YHWH's commandment concernig their "circuit" in the heavens. Indeed, the stars, like the sun and moon, also have portals through which they are to come and go. Whether or not Job ever read the Book of Enoch, he certainly seemed to have had a similar view:

Job 9:
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Something else of interest:

Is the flat/enclosed earth hollow? Yes. Enoch goes into great detail concerning the underworld here:

1 Enoch 22:1. And thence I went to another place, and he showed me in the west another great and high mountain [and] of hard rock. 2 And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at.

3. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period till the period appointed, till the great judgement (comes) upon them.'

5. I saw the spirits of the children of men who were dead, and their voice went forth to heaven and made suit. 6. Then I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: 'This spirit--whose is it whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit?'

7. And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.'8. Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: 'Why as one separated from the other?'

9. And he answered me and said unto me: 'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been made 〈for〉 the spirits of the righteous, in which there as the bright spring of water. 10.And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their lifetime. 11. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who †curse† for ever, and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. 12. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners. 13. Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors. they shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence. 14. Then I blessed the Lord of glory and said: 'Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'

Did this tale in Enoch set the stage for Yeshua's parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man? Could be. Yeshua's parable certainly would appear to validate this story. Regardless, this shows there is still room for a "hollow earth" in the Flat Earther's enclosed model. The ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hebrews and Greeks all had a view of the Underworld being below our feet. They also had a flat earth worldview.

Enoch has a lot more to say concerning the nature of the heavens, earth, sun, moon and stars, but this should suffice for now. Whether or not you accept Enoch as having any merit is irrelevant. At this point, you should be able to tell that just sticking with the Bible alone, the Flat Earthers have a very strong case against our belief in the globe. The Bible goes on and on with similar descriptions as stated above in Enoch. This ancient apocryphal book merely appears to confirm and elaborate on these themes as a contemporary ancient commentary.

This view was held well into the New Testament timeframe, as also indicated by the writings of Josephus in the 1st Century:

CHAPTER 1. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE WORLD AND THE DISPOSITION OF THE ELEMENTS

1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. But when the earth did not come into sight, but was covered with thick darkness, and a wind moved upon its surface, God commanded that there should be light: and when that was made, he considered the whole mass, and separated the light and the darkness; and the name he gave to one was Night, and the other he called Day: and he named the beginning of light, and the time of rest, The Evening and The Morning, and this was indeed the first day. But Moses said it was one day; the cause of which I am able to give even now; but because I have promised to give such reasons for all things in a treatise by itself, I shall put off its exposition till that time. After this, on the second day, he placed the heaven over the whole world, and separated it from the other parts, and he determined it should stand by itself. He also placed a crystalline [firmament] round it, and put it together in a manner agreeable to the earth, and fitted it for giving moisture and rain, and for affording the advantage of dews. On the third day he appointed the dry land to appear, with the sea itself round about it; and on the very same day he made the plants and the seeds to spring out of the earth. On the fourth day he adorned the heaven with the sun, the moon, and the other stars, and appointed them their motions and courses, that the vicissitudes of the seasons might be clearly signified.

The "Early Church Fathers" also wrote quite a bit about this "crystalline firmament" but that's a topic for a whole other essay. OK. This is what really got me though. Check out how the author of 1 Enoch describes the Flood, as given through the vision/dream of Enoch prior to the Judgment occurring...

The Deluge and the Deliverance of Noah

CHAPTER 89:

2 And again I raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water torrents thereon, and those torrents flowed with much water into an enclosure.

3 And I saw again, and behold fountains were opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell and rise upon the surface, and I saw that enclosure till all its surface was covered with water.

4 And the water, the darkness, and mist increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of that water,that water had risen above the height of that enclosure, and was streaming over that enclosure,and it stood upon the earth.

5 And all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how they sank and were swallowed up and perished in that water.

6 But that vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no longer see them, and they were not able to escape,(but) perished and sank into the depths.

7 And again I saw in the vision till those water torrents were removed from that high roof, and the chasms of the earth were leveled up and other abysses were opened.

8 Then the water began to run down into these, till the earth became visible; but that vessel settled on the earth, and the darkness retired and light appeared.

I'm in the process of trying to take the descriptions given in the canonized texts along with what we can read in books like Enoch and other writings contemporary with the Biblical texts - which clearly illustrate the worldview of the Biblical authors - and creating a 3D model, taking these descriptions as literally as I can. This is still very much a work in progress, the following is what I've come up with so far:

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. - Job 22:14 (KJV)

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circle of heaven. (King James 2000)

'Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; And He walks on the vault of heaven.' (NASB)

The above shows the complete "Heaven-Earth System" essentially as a "vault," depicting the floor of YHWH's Throne Room atop the firmament, which is His "footstool." Essentially, the idea is that the "circle of heaven" upon which YHWH walks on is surrounding the top of the dome. His Throne would be toward the back (North) end of this picture. The "four corners" where Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel stand are the four edges of the gold-plated floor.

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. - Revelation 7:1

The book of Enoch goes into a fair amount of detail concerning these four angels who stand on the four corners of the earth. I'll write more about that later, in my blog concerning angels.

Even though the word "earth" (erets in Hebrew) means "land," it occurred to me that if we can consider the atmosphere, clouds, oceans and land collectively as "Earth" - meaning the whole "Earth system" - as in the globe model above, then, I suppose we could apply the same logic to the entire system depicted in my 3D model. In other words, the entire compartment depicted there could be the "Earth system." Thus, if true, then the 4 corners don't necessarily have to be part of the "circle of the Earth" below, but rather they could be part of the "roof" above the system, within the Heavenly realm, surrounding the Throne, which looks down on the Earth (land) below. If true, this then causes a departure from views such as this one:

Now I'm not being dogmatic about any of this. I fully acknowledge this is pure speculation on my part. I'm just trying to think "outside the box" and doing the best I can with the information provided to depict this stuff visually in a way consistent with the texts. This is very much still a work-in-progress, but the images below are cut-away views, looking into the interior of the Heaven-Earth System.

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV)

Have you ever noticed that water is never described as having been created? It's just there immediately after the declaration that God created the heavens and the earth. In many ways, this model helps reconcile something about which I've always struggled. The word for "heaven" is "shamayim" (the KJV should read heavens as it is not a singular word), which includes the word "mayim" (water). Some scholars have suggested that "heaven" thus means something akin to "water in it." But I've always wondered how that would work. This model seems to answer that question - at least for me anyway.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. - Genesis 1:6-8 (KJV)

In my cutaway view, note that there is water beneath the Throne of YHWH, inside an enclosed system, collectively known as Earth. This system has a "firmament" (dome) separating the water above from the water below, forming essentially a bathysphere - an enclosure of air - within which the dry land appeared in the Genesis 1 account. Being that this water surrounded Earth system is literally under the Throne of YHWH in Heaven, this shows how the water is in it.

I'm thinking that during the Flood, some of that upper water was drained into the "enclosure," filling it enough to cover all of the dry land. I say, "some" because over a thousand years after the Flood, Kind David wrote:

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. - Psalm 148:4

So, there still is water above us. Peter seems to also confirm this...

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: - 2 Peter :3:5

It would appear that when the "windows of heaven" were opened, only enough of the water above necessary to fill the bottom of the enclosure up to 15 cubits (about 20 feet) above the highest mountain (Gen. 7:20) was released. No more than that was needed to do the job.

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. - Psalm 33:7

It was then drained out, like a bathtub - perhaps into the "storehouses of the deep," which I've depicted as the box-like containers inside the outer walls:

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. - 1 Samuel 2:8

You will also note in the cut-away, I have depicted the "pillars of the Earth." I have created them with essentially "shock absorbers" at the top. This would certainly allow for the Earth to be shaken up as needed (in YHWH's wrath), but yet still remain firm as a whole.

1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- Job 9:1-6

With the floor of Heaven and containing walls removed, we see the Earth "standing in the water and out of the water" (as Peter described) set atop pillars, firm and unmovable. Again, this is all speculation, but it is at least putting a visual together for me of the things I've been reading in the canonized and biblically-endorsed, extra-biblical texts. One thing is certain though... the book of Enoch is certainly a slam dunk for the Enclosed World Flat Earthers.

But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. - Matthew 5:35

Heaven is My throne, and the earth a footstool of My feet. What kind of house will you build Me? Says the Lord, or what is the place of My rest? - Acts 7:49

No question about it... the ancient texts clearly describe YHWH's "footstool" as essentially a snow globe, with the still, flat, circular Earth set on pillars, under a dome, within which the sun, moon and stars were placed on Day 4 of Creation. But the question I'm now wondering about is... are there more of these types of systems out there?

In my Father's house are many mansions {Greek: "moné" = "dwelling places"}: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. - John 14:2

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. - 1 Corinthians 2:9 - Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmm...."

Then there's this - almost as if in response to the recent surge in flat Earth interest, NASA just released over 10,000 images allegedly from the Apollo missions. Obviously, I have not looked at all of them, but I did spend quite a bit of time going through many of them. It is overwhelming... and I would bet it was intended to be. However, when you have proven frauds like the following, is it really necessary to go through all of it? If we really did what they say we did, why fake anything at all?? I mean, as the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me..." I would extend it to add the following, "Continue to be fooled by pathological liars... and you're an idiot!"

Indeed, there are many problems with the completely absurd Apollo missions, but the biggest one can be summed up in one word: RADIATION. And between the sun's natural radiation cycle (which was at it's peak during the entire alleged moon landing program), the Van Allen belt and the added radiation created by Starfish Prime, it is completely insane to think the flimsy vehicles and thin jumpsuits protected the astronauts!

While I and others have been able to expose a number of NASA photos as fraudulent, there simply is no way any of us have the time to go through all of their photos. Are they all fakes? At this point it is very hard to tell - especially since on several occasions NASA has been caught "fixing" pics that the Internet research community has exposed. So, in essence we are doing them a huge favor in finding the problem images for them. Then, once exposed, they simply clean the pics up in Photoshop and re-upload and claim the original debunkers to be "crazy, conspiracy theory, nut jobs" and worse. In fact, I have often wondered if this may be part of the job tasked to those "hackers" and Photoshop experts who have converted an old McDonalds into a film processing lab:

Officially, the above represents the Lunar Orbit Image Recovery Project (or LOIRP). See: http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/nasas-original-lunar-images-are-housed-in-a-former-mcdonalds/ But could they also be the ones who were tasked with cleaning up thousands of images for the recent Internet photo dump of 10,000 photos from Apollo? I mean realistically, this is a very believable scenario - especially if you brainwash them with notions of "patriotism" and "doing their duty to protect our nation's reputation and national security" and blah, blah, blah... or perhaps it would be as simple as just paying someone enough money, while under a signed non-disclosure agreement (enforced by threats of life and limb to the person or family member). Of course, I cannot prove any conspiracy at work here. All I can say is it looks rather suspicious to me and such a scenario is not at all an unreasonable possibility. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when once we practice to deceive. If indeed Apollo was faked (as the evidence seems to more than suggest), then lie upon lie would be needed in order to cover up the previous lies... for the sake of our nation's reputation, security and well-being.

Let's just take the sheer volume of alleged photos that were supposedly taken by the astronauts on the moon into careful consideration. There is a great article on the aulis.com website by the late Jack White about this. His bio on the site reads:

Jack White has a BA in journalism, interests in art and history and a solid career in advertising behind him. Having been a professional photographer for over half a century, Jack White is skilled in all aspects of photography, but his speciality is photo analysis. Indeed, Jack White is an expert on the assassination of President John F Kennedy and has served as photographic consultant to the US House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) during the hearings. White has published two videotapes on his photographic studies of the assassination and was also a consultant on the Oliver Stone film JFK.

Not unnaturally, White has been following the Apollo 'did they, didn't they' debate for many years. But it was in 2001, following the Fox TV documentary Did we land on the Moon? that he decided to undertake an in-depth investigation into the lunar EVA images, and found literally hundreds of them to be anomalous, considering the conditions under which they were alleged to have been taken. In other words, if the photographs were supposed to have been taken on the lunar surface – they were faked.

The number of pics allegedly taken by the Apollo astronauts during Extra Vehicular Activity on the moon were carefully studied by this photographic analyst for more than three years and when that number was divided by the documented hours and minutes each mission spent doing EVAs on the moon, the obvious conclusion was that it could not have been done. The photo specialist states:

Here is my actual count of EVA photos of the six missions:

Apollo 11........... 121
Apollo 12........... 504
Apollo 14........... 374
Apollo 15..........1021
Apollo 16..........1765
Apollo 17..........1986

So 12 astronauts while on the Moon's surface took a TOTAL of 5771 exposures.

That seemed excessively large to me, considering that their TIME on the lunar surface was limited, and the astronauts had MANY OTHER TASKS OTHER THAN PHOTOGRAPHY. So I returned to the Lunar Surface Journal to find how much TIME was available to do all the scientific tasks AS WELL AS PHOTOGRAPHY. Unlike the number of photos, this information is readily available:

Apollo 11........1 EVA .....2 hours, 31 minutes......(151 minutes)
Apollo 12........2 EVAs.....7 hours, 50 minutes......(470 minutes)
Apollo 14........2 EVAs.....9 hours, 25 minutes......(565 minutes)
Apollo 15........3 EVAs...18 hours, 30 minutes....(1110 minutes)
Apollo 16........3 EVAs...20 hours, 14 minutes....(1214 minutes)
Apollo 17........3 EVAs...22 hours, 04 minutes....(1324 minutes)

Total minutes on the Moon amounted to 4834 minutes.
Total number of photographs taken was 5771 photos.

Hmmmmm. That amounts to 1.19 photos taken EVERY MINUTE of time on the Moon, REGARDLESS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES. (That requires the taking of ONE PHOTO EVERY 50 SECONDS!)

Mr. White realized they would have had to be taking pictures, literally every few seconds of their stay on the moon in order to have so many in such a short period of time. Of course, they supposedly had a lot of other activity to do while on the moon, so how could they have taken such a fantastic number of pictures? He goes on to break it down by mission:

Apollo 11........one photo every 15 seconds
Apollo 12........one photo every 27 seconds
Apollo 14........one photo every 62 seconds
Apollo 15........one photo every 44 seconds
Apollo 16........one photo every 29 seconds
Apollo 17........one photo every 26 seconds

So you decide. Given all the facts, was it possible to take that many photos in so short a time?

Any professional photographer will tell you it cannot be done. Virtually every photo was a different scene or in a different place, requiring travel. As much as 30 miles travel was required to reach some of the photo sites. Extra care had to be taken shooting some stereo pairs and panoramas. Each picture was taken without a viewfinder, using manual camera settings, with no automatic metering, while wearing a bulky spacesuit and stiff clumsy gloves.

The agency wants the world to believe that 5771 photographs were taken in 4834 minutes! IF NOTHING BUT PHOTOGRAPHY HAD BEEN DONE, such a feat is clearly impossible...made even more so by all the documented activities of the astronauts.

Every other major achievement of mankind has been replicated - in most cases, almost immediately and with significant improvement over time. After the first motorcar was invented, countless others followed. After the first airplane flight, within a very short period of time we had planes flying all over the world - going faster and faster with each passing decade. Soon after the first computers were made, they became available for mass production and they get better, faster and cheaper by the year. Yet after the U.S. allegedly landed on the moon six times from 1969 to 1972, not only have we not done it again in over 40 years, but neither has anyone else! In 40 years, no replication, no improved faster travel there in back. Really? How does that make any sense to anyone?

The Apollo program took up about 4% of the Federal Budget and the total cost of the project came to about 25.4 billion in 1969 dollars (which would be over $136 billion in today's money). That's a lot of money for crappy pics and no replication nor improvement in travel to the moon since.

Speaking of fake pictures, is it just a coincidence that Adobe Photoshop was invented the same year as the Hubble Space Telescope was allegedly launched? Photoshop was initially created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Tom wrote the core routines, but his brother John - who interestingly enough worked for George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic as the visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer, having played a major role in the spfx of the Star Wars prequels and many other films - was the one who suggested various additional features and encouraged his brother to bundle them up into a package with a graphical user interface. Then in 1989, John sold the program to Adobe. Adobe's official release of Photoshop was Feb. 19, 1990.

The Hubble Space Telescope was (allegedly) launched into space (aboard the space shuttle Discovery - STS-31) two months later (April 24, 1990) the same year. Or... was it?

What most people don't realize is that imagery attributed to Hubble did not originate as the beautiful photographs we've all seen in print. They originate as data, which a Photoshop guy then takes and turns into imagery. Convenient. But rest assured, you have not seen any actual "pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope." You've seen creative Photoshop artwork. This is even admitted by NASA and the Hubble website:

"Hubble images are made, not born. Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss. In this video from HubbleSite, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope, a Hubble-imaged galaxy comes together on the screen at super-fast speed."

OK. Maybe the moon landings were a hoax. Maybe Hubble is not what we've been led to believe. But what about all of the information on sites like the these...

http://www.apolloarchive.com/
https://archive.org/details/nasaaudiocollection
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/mission_transcripts.htm

In my research, I have found many such sites. I can't even tell you how many documentaries I've watched not only over the course of my lifetime, but also just in the past year. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have spent a huge chunk of my life obsessed with NASA, the space program and wanting to be an astronaut myself. In fact, that's why I joined the Army in the first place. So, I've studied a lot about the space program and to be brutally honest, there is a lot of very convincing evidence coming from NASA. Can we simply ignore all of that data? Is it all fakery?

Some suggest that it's just "too big of a conspiracy" if it's all a big lie. But is that true? I can’t say for certain that we are dealing with a conspiracy, but let’s just say for the sake of argument that the world is flat and all the space agencies have been lying to us. If it is a conspiracy, then compartmentalization alone obliterates most of the concerns inherent in that conclusion. As for what’s left over, consider this:

We currently have nearly 7.5 BILLION people in the world (whatever shape it may be). To be more specific, according to WorldMeters.info the world’s population is currently at 7.382+ billion people. When you take this number into account the number of people involved in the world’s space programs is negligible at best. But it gets even worse when you narrow it down to how many have actually been in space since the 1960s:

According to WorldSpaceFlight.com, if we use the USAF definition of “space” then 551 people have been “in space” thus far. If we use the FAI definition, then only 545 people. Even taking the high number, this still means that ONLY less than 600 out of nearly 7.4 BILLION have ever “been in space.” Let that sink in. Now, let’s break it down...

So, out of all the men, we see that most of them came from the United States and Russia (409 men). The United States and Russia are probably the most notorious nations for creating and keeping secrets! LOL! Add to this the fact that a large percentage of astronauts from both countries come from military backgrounds. Here again, it has to be noted that the military of any nation specifically trains its soldiers to keep secrets.

And to suggest the United States and Russua “don’t play well together” is to forget about the Apollo-Soyuz mission, which almost immediately followed the last alleged moon mission (Apollo 17) and then all of the subsequent collaboration we’ve had with them in space since the 1970s, right up to the present day.

Geopolitically speaking, what we see on TV is a poorly scripted game show, with bad prompter reading puppets (who are terrible actors) playing out a storyline designed and orchestrated by Luciferians, who are all either related to each other or who are “brothers” through the various secret societies they belong to, each with a goal of establishing the New World Order. Make no mistake, while we may be the “tip of the spear,” the U.S. is certainly not the only nation pushing that agenda. But that’s a topic for another discussion.

The vast majority of “space travelers” either currently have or have had military backgrounds. The military of any nation is actually required by nature to be able to keep secrets in order to have any tactical advantage in warfare. So, anyone with a military service background (especially if they had ever held any secret clearances while in the service) would be a prime candidate for guarding a conspiracy... assuming there is one.
Furthermore, at least on the U.S. side, a lot of these “space traveling” people belong to secret societies (Freemasons being probably the most common). Secret societies... well, keep secrets. That’s what they do. Hello? So, when I take all of this into consideration, it's very easy for me to imagine less than 600 humans on this earth being able to keep a secret from the remaining 7.4+ billion of us.
So, back to "It's too big of a conspiracy!" argument. If there is a conspiracy at play here, it’s not hard to see how it could easily be pulled off. The only people who would have to be “in on it” would be the people at the very top, who call the shots and approve what the public finally gets to see (this would be a comparatively small number, well below the 500+ who have supposedly gone to space) and those mentioned above. Everyone else would simply be doing their jobs, building stuff and monitoring the data that is fed to them by the aforementioned, questionable few.

When one considers how totally locked down and compartmentalized the Manhattan Project was with over 130,000 people involved and working close together, at a cost of $26 Billion (in modern dollars), spanning 30 sites in the U.S., U.K. and Canada and yet even the Vice President of the United States didn't know about it, never mind the general population of this country or the world for that matter, it is quite easy to see how a conspiracy could be pulled off. If they could do that in the 1940s (along with other similar secret projects), and if they could pull off what was very likely the hoaxes of “landing on the moon” in the 60s and 70s, don’t you think they would have sufficient practice along with significantly more money to play with in order to be able to pull off something even bigger today?

As seen above, the vast majority of “space travelers” allegedly did and are doing so through NASA. There can be no question NASA lies. This has been proven many times about many things. Well, you only get good at what you practice. With as much practice as they’ve had, combined with nearly unlimited resources to play with, I’d say we’d be foolish to think they have suddenly decided to be honest with us. The temptation, motivation and ability to lie is far too great if you ask me.

And for less than 1,000 people to be able keep a secret from 7.382 billion who could never verify anything they say or show us for ourselves, I guess at least for me, the “It’s too big of a conspiracy” argument... well... just falls flat. :)

All I know is NASA has had over 50 years and billions (if not trillions) of dollars to play with, so anything is possible for them. If they wanted to fake something they certainly have the resources to do so. And when people show me footage of someone allegedly floating through the corridors of the International Space Station as "proof" that we've really got astronauts up there doing stuff, I simply show them the making of a movie like Gravity, which was made for a fraction of the yearly budget NASA has. I do this to show that it is at least very possible to fool us:

Gravity was made for $100 million in 2013. That same year, NASA's budget was about $17.7 billion, which was "its lowest level in four years." Oh, boo-hoo...

By way of comparison, there are months when I've been lucky if I could pay the rent on my small two bedroom apartment, my tiny 12 x 14 office space and my car, while still covering all of my other bills in time. I imagine most reading this are probably in about the same boat. So, any of us taking on NASA is worse than a David and Goliath scenario. This is Pee-Wee Herman against a few hundred thousand cedar tree-sized Amorite armies. With the money and resources NASA has, it is certainly plausible that all those missions could be staged and fraudulent. They have definitely had the time and the means to pull it off... but I can't prove that. None of us can and they know it.

I have spent a lot of time on the various NASA websites, looking over the mission logs, transcript data, and photos, as well as listening to audio from the actual missions, and even though my default is set to "conspiracy," and I do not believe we ever actually put a man on the moon, a lot of this apparent "evidence" is still very convincing, and I certainly can not debunk much of it. Yet, oddly enough NASA seems to be debunking themselves lately. With the various videos out concerning the issues project Orion has been having solving the "radiation problems" of the Van Allen Belts (and beyond), it is hard to believe we ever managed to go through those things more than 40 years ago in tin cans and jumpsuits during the Apollo Project.

One Hundred Proofs That The Earth is Not a Globe.
https://ia800707.us.archive.org/24/items/onehundredproofs00carp/onehundredproofs00carp.pdf

Terra Firma: The Earth Not a Planet, Proved From Scripture, Reason and Fact.
https://ia800209.us.archive.org/6/items/cu31924031764594/cu31924031764594.pdf

Zetetic Astronomy. Earth Not a Globe! An Experimental Inquiry Into the True Figure of the Earth: Proving it a Plane, Without Axial or Orbital Motion; and the Only Material World in the Universe!
https://ia902606.us.archive.org/7/items/zeteticastronom00rowbgoog/zeteticastronom00rowbgoog.pdf

Operation Highjump, also known as The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-1947, was a US Navy operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. It was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Jr. and led by Rear Admiral Ethan Erik Larson. The operation commenced on August 26, 1946, and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 consisted of 4,700 men, 13 ships, 19 airplanes, four helicopters, and a large contingent of scientists. It was the largest and most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump

Operation Deep Freeze is a term used to refer to a series of United States missions to Antarctica, which began in 1955-56 and continued until 1998. The expeditions were military operations run and supported by various American military agencies, with Rear Admiral Byrd as Officer in Charge. These missions included scientific observations, the construction of two more base stations, and many subsequent investigations. The US Navy withdrew officially from Antarctica in 1998. Operation Deep Freeze is also an annual joint interagency mission led by the US Pacific Air Forces to provide logistical and transportation support to the Antarctic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deep_Freeze

On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The agency absorbed the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. Congress began hearings in November 1958 to develop a long-term space plan following the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, which galvanized the United States. The NACA conducted aeronautical research that was ultimately transferred to the nascent aerospace industry, which led the U.S. economy into the late 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by the twelve countries whose scientists had been active in and around Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System

Why the flat-earth movement is the best symbol of the increasingly diminished value of truth and intelligence Calum Marsh: The rhetoric suggests a sort of proud alienation – Flat-Earthers are alone, but only because they’re the only ones courageous enough to see the world as it really is. https://nationalpost.com/life/why-the-flat-earth-movement-is-the-best-symbol-of-the-increasingly-diminished-value-of-truth-and-intelligence

“The discovery begins within,” proclaims a flat-earth Facebook group. “Empirically, the human senses are the most powerful way in which we connect to source and yet we’ve been taught to deny what they tell us. We’ve been programmed since birth to trust pseudo science (sic) over our own connection to source (sic)… We have awoken from the globe illusion, a planetary confinement, and freed ourselves from the 3D prison matrix for the mind. We opened our eyes and witnessed the limitless magnificence of this realm we call Earth. All dimensions have opened up to us and we are now the Pilots revising the map.”

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