{"id":31540,"date":"2020-12-14T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31540"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:28:21","slug":"get-high-enough-and-you-can-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/14\/get-high-enough-and-you-can-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Get High Enough And You Can Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Associated Press<\/strong><\/em> (AAP<\/strong><\/em>) is facing an existential threat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It may not be the\u00a0lost city of Atlantis<\/a>, but a social media post questions whether another island \u2013 Australia \u2013 is also the product of fiction.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0from June 3, shared to a group in which users debate\u00a0flat Earth theories<\/a>, features an aerial image of Australia with a red \u201cFAKE\u201d stamped over the picture. The text underneath reads: \u201cAustralia isn\u2019t real. The people are either paid actors or robots.\u201d<\/p>\n

It goes on to claim, \u201cIt\u2019s a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post continues by claiming that \u201cplane pilots are all in on this, and have in all actuality only flown you to islands close nearby \u2013 or in some cases, parts of South America, where they have cleared space and hired actors to act out as real Australians\u201d.<\/p>\n

The post by a user whose profile states they live in the Netherlands had attracted more than 670 comments, 100 reactions and 60 shares at the time of writing. There is also\u00a0a Facebook group<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to the theme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t much care for the AAP rebuttal. I mean, dry recitation of fakeable facts? C’mon!<\/p>\n

I think<\/strong> they should offer free air fare and free shipping to a representative of the group to Australia. Why the shipping? Because the doubting Thomases will be required to provide a high altitude, human bearing balloon, either hot air or helium, that can reach a high enough altitude to, well, survey the continent of Australia.<\/p>\n

They should also provide a free sleeping mask to the representative so that they do not have to damage their frail sensibilities at seeing themselves flown to a non-existent continent.<\/p>\n

The AAP<\/strong><\/em> should ship them to a suitable launch point for the balloon, provide them with a camera if they failed to bring one of their own, and then …<\/p>\n

UP THEY GO!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

At some point – hopefully before the air becomes too thin to breath, but perhaps they can wear a sealed suit with an oxygen tank – they’ll be able to discern the entire continent of Australia, take a picture or three of it, notice how it matches up with those damn artists’ renderings, and add to their cognitive dissonance load. I have thoughtfully provided a topological map for their use, above. Sadly, the colors may not be precise matches.<\/p>\n

I do, however, draw the line at providing them an ax to use on any handy Australians they might interact with. After all, if they really aren’t robots, then it’s murder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Associated Press (AAP) is facing an existential threat: It may not be the\u00a0lost city of Atlantis, but a social media post questions whether another island \u2013 Australia \u2013 is also the product of fiction. The\u00a0Facebook post\u00a0from June 3, shared to a group in which users debate\u00a0flat Earth theories, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31544,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31540\/revisions\/31544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}