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British politics are interesting to say the least. Count Binface is currently in the lead!
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I came across this item on Snopes debunker. It originally appeared on Instagram. Quite fascinating and amusing for a physicist, but not lame enough to be posted on "Physics Lame Jokes." Here is the text minus the ads.
Note that it's supposed to happen today
On August 12, 2026, the world will lose gravity for 7 seconds. NASA knows. They're preparing but won't tell us why.
In November 2024, a secret NASA document titled "Project Anchor" leaked online. The project's budget is $89 billion, and its goal is to survive a 7-second gravitational anomaly expected on August 12, 2026, at 14:33 UTC.
Key facts:
• Duration: 7.3 seconds.
• Expected casualties: 40-60 million.
What will happen:1-2 seconds: Everything not secured will rise (people, vehicles, animals).3-4 seconds: Objects will continue to rise to 15-20 meters.5-6 seconds: Panic and chaos will ensue as people hit ceilings.7 seconds: Gravity returns, and everything falls from height.
Expected consequences:
• 40 million deaths from falls.
• Infrastructure destruction.
• Economic collapse lasting over 10 years.
• Mass panic.
Reason for the anomaly: The intersection of two gravitational waves from black holes, predicted in 2019 with a probability of 94.7%. NASA has known about this for five years.
What NASA is doing:
• Building underground bunkers for "essential personnel."
• Developing securing systems for buildings.
Who will get spots in the bunkers: Government leaders, scientists, military personnel, and "selected citizens with genetic diversity."
Why they're silent: An announcement would trigger mass panic and chaos. Better to have 40 million unprepared victims than 8 billion in a state of panic.
The leak has been ignored by the media as "conspiracy theory," but an independent physicist confirmed the intersection of gravitational waves. His paper was retracted, and he has since disappeared.
What you can do: Follow the "civilian survival protocol":
• Stay indoors with a low ceiling.
• Lie on the floor face down.
• Hold onto something secured.
20 months until the event. NASA knows. Governments are preparing. They won't tell you.
Note that it's supposed to happen today
On August 12, 2026, the world will lose gravity for 7 seconds. NASA knows. They're preparing but won't tell us why.
In November 2024, a secret NASA document titled "Project Anchor" leaked online. The project's budget is $89 billion, and its goal is to survive a 7-second gravitational anomaly expected on August 12, 2026, at 14:33 UTC.
Key facts:
• Duration: 7.3 seconds.
• Expected casualties: 40-60 million.
What will happen:1-2 seconds: Everything not secured will rise (people, vehicles, animals).3-4 seconds: Objects will continue to rise to 15-20 meters.5-6 seconds: Panic and chaos will ensue as people hit ceilings.7 seconds: Gravity returns, and everything falls from height.
Expected consequences:
• 40 million deaths from falls.
• Infrastructure destruction.
• Economic collapse lasting over 10 years.
• Mass panic.
Reason for the anomaly: The intersection of two gravitational waves from black holes, predicted in 2019 with a probability of 94.7%. NASA has known about this for five years.
What NASA is doing:
• Building underground bunkers for "essential personnel."
• Developing securing systems for buildings.
Who will get spots in the bunkers: Government leaders, scientists, military personnel, and "selected citizens with genetic diversity."
Why they're silent: An announcement would trigger mass panic and chaos. Better to have 40 million unprepared victims than 8 billion in a state of panic.
The leak has been ignored by the media as "conspiracy theory," but an independent physicist confirmed the intersection of gravitational waves. His paper was retracted, and he has since disappeared.
What you can do: Follow the "civilian survival protocol":
• Stay indoors with a low ceiling.
• Lie on the floor face down.
• Hold onto something secured.
20 months until the event. NASA knows. Governments are preparing. They won't tell you.
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Didn't notice any gravity problems (!) but my family just enjoyed a 92.5% partial solar eclipse here in the south of the UK. We bought a pack of eclipse glasses, which worked well, and it was strange being outside in "dim sunshine".
I also projected the crescent sun indoors onto a wall using a mirror covered with black insulating tape apart from a small hole, which reflected the light onto the furthest wall I could aim it at, producing a clear image about 4cm across. Punching a hole in the tape did not work well because the material pushed out around it blocked light at an angle and tended to close up again, but I then tried folding a bit of tape in 4 (mostly sticky side out) and snipped off the tiniest corner, and that worked very well.
Near the maximum, the angle of the crescent moved round like a clock so one could easily see the difference over only a few seconds. We saw crescent-shaped images in the shadows behind bushes and even holding up fingers letting a little light through one could see crescent-shaped light patches within the shadow.
We wondered if birds would be confused, but the only sign we saw of that was a small flock of starlings that began to gather in the way they would normally before going to roost in the evening. Other birds seemed to continue as normal.
The pack of eclipse glasses also contained filters to use with a phone camera, but we had little success with those because the side towards the camera was so reflective that even if it was pressed against the lens the reflections were far more visible than the sun.
I also projected the crescent sun indoors onto a wall using a mirror covered with black insulating tape apart from a small hole, which reflected the light onto the furthest wall I could aim it at, producing a clear image about 4cm across. Punching a hole in the tape did not work well because the material pushed out around it blocked light at an angle and tended to close up again, but I then tried folding a bit of tape in 4 (mostly sticky side out) and snipped off the tiniest corner, and that worked very well.
Near the maximum, the angle of the crescent moved round like a clock so one could easily see the difference over only a few seconds. We saw crescent-shaped images in the shadows behind bushes and even holding up fingers letting a little light through one could see crescent-shaped light patches within the shadow.
We wondered if birds would be confused, but the only sign we saw of that was a small flock of starlings that began to gather in the way they would normally before going to roost in the evening. Other birds seemed to continue as normal.
The pack of eclipse glasses also contained filters to use with a phone camera, but we had little success with those because the side towards the camera was so reflective that even if it was pressed against the lens the reflections were far more visible than the sun.
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This is what the eclipse image from my mirror pinhole looked like a few minutes after maximum, projected onto the wall in a convenient shadow just above a door frame. The pinhole gives an image rotated by 180 degrees.
