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  • Fact Check: Patent Application Image Is NOT For 'Sun Simulator' But Autonomously Assembled Space Telescope

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    Does a diagram from a patent application for a purported "sun simulator" prove that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is also a sun simulator because of their similarities? No, that's not true: The diagram included in a 2003 patent application is for an "autonomously assembled space telescope" and does not depict a "sun simulator." The James Webb Space Telescope, which…

    • May 23, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Patent Application Image Is NOT For 'Sun Simulator' But Autonomously Assembled Space Telescope Space 'Scope
  • Fact Check: EISCAT Radar System In Finland, Norway and Sweden Does NOT Have Mind Control Capabilities

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    Can the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association, or EISCAT Scientific Association, use its technologies for mind control, as a video on social media claims? No, that's not true: EISCAT Scientific Association Director Axel Steuwer told Lead Stories that there is "absolutely no mind control possible" with the program's systems, which primarily measure physical elements of the upper atmosphere using the…

    • May 22, 2024
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: EISCAT Radar System In Finland, Norway and Sweden Does NOT Have Mind Control Capabilities Space Testing
  • Fact Check: HAARP Tests Were NOT Cause Of Northern Lights In Early May 2024 -- It Was Solar Storm

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    Was an epic display of the northern lights in early May 2024 caused by testing at HAARP (the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) in Alaska? No, that's not true: There's no connection between the research program's experiments and the geomagnetic storms that overlapped them. According to a press release from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where the program is based,…

    • May 14, 2024
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: HAARP Tests Were NOT Cause Of Northern Lights In Early May 2024  -- It Was Solar Storm Natural Phenom
  • Fact Check: Map That Shows Parts Of US To Be Hit By Floods, Earthquakes From 2024 Is NOT Official

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    Is a Safe Zones Map that shows parts of the United States that may be submerged by "the sea" or wracked by earthquakes an official map? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to back up this claim. Additionally, the map and its accompanying text look and sound suspiciously similar to maps produced by Lori Toye, an author and self-proclaimed…

    • Apr 12, 2024
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: Map That Shows Parts Of US To Be Hit By Floods, Earthquakes From 2024 Is NOT Official No Such Proof
  • Fact Check: Solar Flares ARE Real And CAN Disrupt Telecommunications Networks

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    Are solar flares not real, thus incapable of disrupting telecommunications networks, as a post on Instagram suggests? No, that's not true: Solar flares are well-documented bursts of electromagnetic energy emitted by the sun during geomagnetic storms, and a large body of evidence proves they exist and have far-ranging effects. Flares disrupt radar, gps and other radiowave-based systems, according to recognized…

    • Feb 23, 2024
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Solar Flares ARE Real And CAN Disrupt Telecommunications Networks Observed Event
  • Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Announce Massive Unidentified Flying Object Between Earth And Sun

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    Did NASA announce the discovery of a massive unidentified flying object (UFO) spotted between the Earth and the sun and did this result in the closure of six solar observatories to hide something from the public? No, that's not true: This UFO clickbait narrative has been circulating online since at least September 13, 2018, and has continued to evolve with…

    • Apr 26, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Announce Massive Unidentified Flying Object Between Earth And Sun Not Announced
  • Fact Check: Time-Lapse Video Of Alaskan Midnight Sun Does NOT Prove The Earth Is Flat -- Digitally Altered

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    Does a time-lapse video of the midnight sun in Alaska show that the sun appears to get smaller as it approaches the horizon -- thus proving that this is a "local sun" that is very close to Earth in a closed environment, part of the firmament? No, that's not true: The footage of slightly more than one full day has…

    • Feb 16, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Time-Lapse Video Of Alaskan Midnight Sun Does NOT Prove The Earth Is Flat -- Digitally Altered Altered Video
  • Fact Check: There Is NO Incoming Solar Storm -- It Has Already Passed

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    Is a solar storm coming to Earth, so dangerous that it could impact GPS, the internet and satellites? No, that's not true: a solar storm has already come -- on July 3, 2021, -- and gone, according to NASA. It did briefly impact radio communications over the Atlantic Ocean, but there is no incoming solar storm as of this writing.…

    • Jul 15, 2021
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: There Is NO Incoming Solar Storm -- It Has Already Passed Already Passed
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    Fact Check: Ohio State Football Coach Ryan Day Did NOT Donate More Than $3.5 Million To Flood Victims In Texas

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