Flat Earther FAILS at Understanding Why Rockets Don't Launch Straight Up

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]given that NASA is really sending people in orbit around the moon. As usual, we are shown a rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which performs the same parabolic arc that every rocket, missile, and other projectile shot into the sky does.

[00:00:12]Rather than shooting straight upwards towards the moon, which would be They have to go into orbit.

[00:00:21]He thinks that to get into orbit, you go straight up and then take a left. No. To get into orbit, you take off and then curve around the Earth.

[00:00:35]The fact that he has just said, "Well, the rocket doesn't go straight up and towards the moon." is bit frankly.