Rhyming slang for this guy?
Oh dear. Where to begin?
Well, firstly – obviously – this is nonsense.
And secondly, Mark Farnell is clearly a complete and utter Project Anchor.
7 seconds without gravity would be bad, so it’s a good job that it’s simply not going to happen. That’s because NASA might do all that space and science stuff, but critically (for the purposes of this post, at least) they don’t control gravity. And even if you gave them $89 billion – which would be pretty noticeable, given that their total annual budget is about $24 billion – they still couldn’t control gravity.
Also, just because there’s no gravity for 7.3 seconds, doesn’t mean that “everything not secured will rise”. That’s not how physics works (which NASA also doesn’t control). People, vehicles and animals will just remain right where they are – on the floor. Newton told us this way back in the 1600s. Mark Farnell has had 350 years to learn elementary school science, and has failed.
As seconds pass, objects will float 15-20 metres into the air.
Again, no. Absolutely not. But now Mark is putting a (metric) figure on it. And so we can calculate that these objects are somehow allegedly accelerating upwards, at about 2.5ms-2 – so gravity hasn’t just stopped: it’s reversed. But it’s also apparently only reversed to about a quarter of the actual speed of real gravity.
No-one is going to slam into any ceiling. A gentle bump at best, and only if they were already moving that way when the “gravitational anomaly” takes place.
Which they weren’t, and which it won’t.
In fact, given just how horrific the effects of this incident sound, 40-60 million casualties – or just 0.6% of the world’s population – seems like a incredibly small number, given that half the planet will be upside down at that time and will surely just… fall off. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)
Look, this is clearly nonsense, but hey – let’s park it and come back to it on August 12th 2026. I can just warn you again to be really careful at whatever you’re up to at 14:33 UTC (15:33 BST, 16:33 CAT), and then we can all laugh at Mark (again) at 14:34 UTC (15:34 BST, 16:34 CAT).
Oh, and hey: you can only begin to guess what the rest of his timeline is like…
