There was an awesome $300 million rocket launch of the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe recently, but my question for you is; What's all this stuff for? Why spend so much to build all this to somehow hide the Flat Earth?

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When, to sell their "lie" of a fake launch, from an allegedly fake globe Earth, all they'd need to do is make a dummy building and rocket, keep people away (like they do the supposed Flat Earth "ice wall,") then show some cgi movie of the staged event. Why go to all this expense of a real, working Delta IV Heavy rocket and 10,000,000 pound moveable building? Why make it 30 stories high when a shorter one would be cheaper? Why does it all look and sound so real, even during take off? Why pay thousands of engineers, mechanics, technicians, janitors, accountants, secretaries, HR people, marketing and press people, etc., to build this monstrosity of a thing, or the 20 or 100 people to look like they're working on launch day, when you'd only need say, 15 fake workers? They even pay what the CEO calls a "slosh-ologist" (a nickname?) to make sure fuel calculations and storage is right! Aside from the question of paying thousands of people, they must try to keep the number of those who know the truth to a minimum right? Wouldn't 2, or even 1 booster be just as convincing as 3? If the purpose is to fake data about the sun, wouldn't it be easier to just create it from Earth without all this fanfare and mumbo-jumbo?

Keep in mind that this is only 1 project! When it could be done so much more cost effectively, why all the trillions of dollars worth of payment to people, and for infrastructure, science and data built or established around principles and forces determined by a globe Earth?!

Anyways, back on said globe Earth. (Sorry, but it's too good a chance for a friendly jab...!) And changing subjects a bit...

This quick video from Tech Insider describes the purpose of the probe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT7KeY0ZZJo

The coolest part of this specific launch to me, is that because we are in orbit around the sun, anything leaving the Earth wants to continue the same outwards vector and velocity, but the need of this Parker Solar Probe is to go inwards towards the sun to do its tests. (Imagine swinging a ball on a rope around your head, then letting go.)

"We're in orbit right now around the sun at 67,000 mph. You gotta take that energy out to get any closer. It's actually really hard to go in, it's much easier to go out." - Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA.

The math must be staggering, but the clever solution to this problem is to repeatedly use Venus as a gravity assist, to shrink the orbit of the probe closer and closer to the sun on every 3rd pass around the solar system. (Venus is most proximal to the probe only every 3rd orbit.) (Trajectory plan proposed by Andrew A. Dantzler, for who the launch was in memory of.)

This means that the launch vehicle needed to travel at about 17,000 mph to reach Earth's escape velocity, and were no corrections made, or were there no interference from the gravity of other solar bodies, it would just continue in a straight line out of our system. But to overcome this outwards force, after shedding the rockets, the probe was slowed down to an incredibly low 10 meters per second after the first vector correction maneuver. Next, and here is where humans will strike our mind-boggling new speed record, by making these gravity assist runs around the sun at one end and Venus at the other, the probe will eventually be brought back up to 430,000 mph, or 6% of the speed of light! Amazing! If I understood all that correctly, and at this point at over 98 miles/second!, the probe can be brought in tight where it will stay in orbit, always keeping its solar shield towards the sun, which will only be 3.8 million miles away! (Earth is 1 A.U or about 93 million miles/149.6 million km away.)

"The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun’s corona." - NASA

From SciNews, here is the probe's path for the next few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNQeCWT09A

Just for curiosity, and if again I understand correctly, this means with today's technology, and even if we only made basically the equivalent of the same number of vector corrections around tiny Venus, we could reach the nearest star Alpha Centauri (4.3 LY's away,) in about 68.8 years, (@6.25% SoL!) But what if we used the Sun itself, and massive Jupiter, and also did more circuits before leaving the solar system?! Amazing humans!

Anyways, here is a cool conversation before and during "rollback" from the rocket, just before the launch, between the CEO of the company ULA, United Launch Alliance, and rocket engineer (iirc) and general tinkerer, Destin from SmarterEveryDay on Youtube. (Probably my favourite channel, except he's a busy dad, so he doesn't post enough!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPoVi_h0r0

Here is a longer, more informative version from Smarter Every Day 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-vXJL8jXBk

Named after the scientist who hypothesized solar winds, meet some of the people working on the project, and get an explanation of the NASA mission for the Parker Solar Probe. (Again from SmarterEveryDay.)

"So you're gonna take a coronal mass ejection right to the face?!"

"Right to the face!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQaCY7wlQEc

And finally, here is the launch from NASA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlyuSwRSVHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUClxcUbuNM

Well, I hope anyone could admire and enjoy this literally momentous achievement, but I also hope it gives some people considering the Flat Earth "model" some good questions to answer. Most importantly, not why do "they" want people to believe in a globe Earth, but why would "they" want people to believe in a Flat Earth...?

(CGI of probe in place around sun. Images of rocket before and during launch.)

Thanks For Your Attention and Support!