Did you think the claims of moon landing hoaxers absurd?
Perhaps the flat earth conspiracies filled you with contempt?
Prepare yourself for the latest lunacy.
A theory claiming that Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026, has made the rounds on social media, sparking confusion and speculation. The claim originated from a so-called leaked document named Project Anchor, which began circulating online in late 2024. Posts suggested the U.S. space agency was secretly preparing for a short-lived gravitational anomaly that could lift people and objects into the air before violently bringing them back down.
You would be well-advised to nail your shoes to the floor on August 12, if you believe that nonsense.
At the center of the claim was a fabricated NASA initiative reportedly named Project Anchor, with a proposed budget of 89 billion dollars. The theory claimed the agency was preparing for a gravitational anomaly expected on August 12, 2026, at 14:33 UTC. According to content shared on now-deleted Instagram accounts, this so-called anomaly would cause anything not firmly secured to float several meters in the air before crashing back down.
The narrative was unusually detailed for a hoax. It broke down the seven seconds of supposed weightlessness step by step. In the first two seconds, people and objects would lift. By seconds three and four, they would rise up to 15 or 20 meters. By second five, panic would break out. By second seven, gravity would return, bringing a deadly descent.
How would NASA make such a specific, detailed prediction of an unprecedented event completely outside the bounds of physics?
In the absence of a credible, reputable skeptic organization, I guess we’re going to get all of our science from TikTok from now on.
Sounds like someone has been taking Calvin & Hobbes a bit too seriously.
A lot of the UFO crowd have been convinced by “whistleblowers”/influencers that Disclosure is finally going to happen either this year or next. 2026 was the date, but at least one of them decided it might be 2027. But even some people that strongly believe we are being visiting by aliens find the continual announcement of dates that come and go with no results tiring.
UFO guy Steven Greer started the Disclosure Project in 1993, before some of the current UFO fandom were even born. His disclosing hasn’t been very successful.
Don’t forget about the Tartarian Empire kooks. Tartaria makes the chemtrail conspiracy look totally believable by comparison.
A career in the medical field for me. We used to say the patient’s Primary Care Physician is Dr. Google. Yes, they owned a ton of information, no they couldn’t deploy it well. They wanted to dictate their care. Big obstacle trying to provide care to these patients. Seems like this knowledge phenomenon is spreading to other scientific domains.
There has to be a grift attached to this. Perhaps they will sell “automatic anomaly cancelling amulets” that will be guaranteed to provide substitute gravity during the test.
Fantastic! I’ll finally be able to dunk a basketball.
(Note to self; tie down basketball hoop.)
At least it’s a specific prediction…so we can all point and laugh when it doesn’t happen.
I dug a 15m hole in my yard. That way when I float up and reach ground level I can just pull myself over a couple of feet and I’ll be fine. Such a simple solution really. I offered to help my neighbors dig one too but some people don’t want to be helped I guess.
OT but related in that it is really stupid.
Trump is totally senile, very deep into dementia.
He has lost what neuroscientists call “executive functions”, the ability to plan and make good decisions.
He does whatever he wants without considering whether it is a good idea or not.
Based on past experience with exploded predictions, even after the gravitional anomaly doesn’t happen, some people will still believe. Which makes sense in a way. If you are dumb enough to believe the prediction before it has failed, you are dumb enough to still believe after.
It would make an amusing puzzle for ~high school level physics: what exactly would happen if gravity disappeared for a bit? (If I did the arithmetic right, I make centripetal acceleration at the equator to be ~3.4cm/s^2, i.e. about 3 milli-G’s. So things aren’t going take off very fast, but I can maybe imagine earthquakes caused by the change in seismic stresses? But I think the atmosphere disperses fast enough that we wouldn’t care about anything else.)
@raven: He has lost what neuroscientists call “executive functions”,
Do you have proof he had that in the first place?
@whheydt: They will simply claim that the project was cancelled after being exposed.
Isn’t this just a description of the Glorious Twelfth? Although to be fair, that used to be the sole domain of red grouse.
[note the date…]
tRUMP’s new best buddy nicki minaj (also with the intellect of a saucepan) says: NASA never put a man on the moon. WTF
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/nicki-minaj-s-latest-hot-take-nasa-never-put-humans-on-the-moon/ar-AA1VKczy
Everyone enjoying the ride down the magat Death Spiral??
I remember a silly joke from decades ago which is philosophically slightly true when it comes to what humanity has done:
‘There is no gravity, earth sucks’
Can Minaj doubting the Moon landings be a hot take when the idea was around before she was born?