They also can't keep their lies straight.  Max alleged altitude of this plane is reportedly 500 miles or 800 km.  Go to Google Earth and see what the earth allegedly looks like at an altitude of 800km (ca. 500 miles).  It would be about 5 or 10 times larger than this egg-shaped ball.

That was the first thing I noticed. It looks like it's halfway to the "Moon" as per the Apollo myth. The earth is *far* away in that photo. That's not even orbit at that point. You're drifting in the vacuum of space, you'd never crash into the earth whatever you do, if the Earth looked like the photo in question from where you stood. You'd be almost completely outside it's "gravity". Again, I'm talking about from the POV of their own space religion/mythology (which I'm quite familiar with, I should point out).

Of course, gravity is such a crock. There's no way there's an invisible string from the earth to your "spaceship" if the earth looked like that, forcing you to "orbit" the earth. Likewise, the Moon is supposed to be several times further away -- and much smaller than the earth. Yet it's supposed to cause our tides? Yeah, not any lakes or other bodies of water, just the ocean. There is NO good reason for that. And although the Moon somehow overpowered or vanquished Earth's gravity, even though the water being fought over is RIGHT NEXT TO the earth where it's gravity would be STRONGEST, and the earth is much larger (massive, more powerful gravity to begin with) -- somehow the water doesn't keep rising up after being vanquished in the gravity contest by the Moon's gravity. Doesn't make sense at all.

Sometimes gravity makes things attract each other, sometimes gravity makes things "orbit" each other. THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT FORCES. NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL.

And think about what orbiting MEANS. Orbiting is a near-constant changing of angular velocity. What happened to the conservation of momentum? Where does the extra energy come from? How does the earth (for example) slow down and accelerate constantly? Unless there were a literal string connecting the two, you can't just hit the gas full-throttle (no brakes) and magically go in a circle.

Could you "do a donut" (drive in a circle) without ever hitting the gas to add speed? See my point?

And do you know how much a volume of ocean water weighs? Why doesn't the moon's gravity affect other physical things on earth? Like butterflies, rocks, fragile stacks of rocks, or anything else? Why can't the Moon cause stress or movement on *anything else* with its powerful gravity?

Like I said: I'm not turning off my brain. I'm asking the questions I always wanted to ask. Saying the things that never made sense to me. I'm going with common sense on this one.

Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it false/impossible.

I could come up with a list of things I demand answers for, before I go back to globe earth (which I once believed, and still understand the position as well as *any of you*)

For starters, why does the Moon pull a huge body of water (the ocean) up, say, 1 foot, enough to create a "tide" -- but does absolutely nothing to a lake a few hundred miles from that ocean? Not so much as a ripple on the surface of THAT water. Why does the Moon exclusively have an influence on salt water bodies? Why is the Moon only in love with the ocean, absolutely nothing else?

And pulling hundreds of metric tons of water up 6 or 12 inches is a LOT of pulling power. Why aren't birds, butterflies, pop cans, or anything else affected by this pulling "gravity" force of the Moon? They certainly weigh FAR less than a cubic meter of water!

And, "Science" claims that the earth's gravity is strongest at the surface. If the moon has wrested control of X amount of water from the earth, so as to pull it closer to the Moon -- why does the Moon give up so easily while it's winning? Why wouldn't the "struggle" be repeated again and again, moving the water higher and higher towards the Moon? The higher it goes, the stronger the Moon's "gravity" and the weaker the earth's "gravity". According to them!

No one can explain that.