00:00a wild online conspiracy theory for seven seconds gravity is going to no longer exist that alleges
00:07the earth will lose its gravity for seven seconds and cause mass death and destruction like me and
00:13you are afraid of heights it's better to be safe than sorry because i'm not trying to go out like
00:18that as online posters point to a fake secret nasa project as evidence for the impossible cosmic event
00:25project called project anchor that nasa has an 89 billion dollar budget for and the plan is to see
00:32if earth can survive losing gravity here's what we know about project anchor and the wild rumors
00:37circulating about earth losing gravity on august 12th a viral rumor straight out of science fiction
00:43has been gripping conspiracy theorists on social media has even led the u.s's leading agency to
00:49clear up the confusion according to the fact checking website snopes a theory was posted on
00:54instagram in december 2025 by a now deleted account which boldly claimed that the earth would lose
01:00gravity for seven seconds on august 12th and that quote nasa knows and quote won't tell us why the
01:08caption on the instagram post explained the dire situation further claiming that an alleged secret
01:13nasa document called project anchor had been leaked in 2024 which allegedly spelled out proof that our only
01:20known home would lose its gravity for 7.3 seconds in august leading to mass panic economic collapse
01:27and an estimated 40 million people falling to their deaths and why would this scientific impossibility
01:34happen on august 12th the caption claimed the gravitational anomaly was because of the quote
01:39intersection of two gravitational waves from black holes which they claimed nasa had spent nearly 90
01:45billion dollars trying to prevent the wild rumor of the now soon approaching science fiction event
01:51spread rapidly across social media according to leaked documents nasa there's going to be an
01:57intersection of two black holes which is going to remove the gravity on earth and maybe that's why
02:02all these billionaires are building bunkers it's not a polar shift well i mean maybe that's maybe
02:07that's what causes polar shifts who knows what i'm seeing online is this isn't going to happen this
02:12isn't going to happen this isn't going to happen this isn't going to happen so i'm speaking on
02:19if it does happen or if it did happen what would you do nasa tried to wrangle in the rumor
02:27releasing
02:27a statement debunking the wild claim a spokesman told snopes in january that the earth would quote
02:33not lose gravity that the only cosmic event predicted for january 12th was a total solar eclipse earth's
02:40gravity or total gravitational force is determined by its mass the only way for the earth to lose
02:46gravity would be for the earth's system the combined mass of its core mantle crust ocean terrestrial
02:52water and atmosphere to lose mass a total solar eclipse has no unusual impact on earth's gravity
02:58the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon on the earth which doesn't impact earth's total
03:03gravity but does impact tidal forces is well understood and is predictable decades in advance
03:10there has also been no evidence of the supposed program project anchor some online posters have
03:16even started calling out the conspiracy theorists in their own videos online about the far-flung
03:21scientific impossibility apparently nasa has a secret project called project anchor where we will lose
03:27gravity for seven seconds if it was leaked then why can't i find it the only thing they have that's
03:32remotely close to that name is the lunar martian anchor emplacement system this is just a design to
03:36have a literal anchor on the moon or mars to rescue stock vehicles this is a scientific impossibility
03:43gravity is a fundamental force that is entirely dependent of the earth's mass so for this to happen
03:50our entire planet would need to disappear a regular degular ass public school taught me this
03:57this ain't no way y'all really believe there are like dr william alston a black hole expert from the
04:06university of hartfordshire told the daily mail that colliding black holes are quote so weak that
04:12scientists have had to build sensitive detection equipment just to see them he added that the quote
04:16ripple from colliding black holes are commonly passing through earth and that the effects go quote
04:22completely unnoticed hypothetically speaking if earth were to lose gravity it would definitely be
04:28a catastrophe a planetary scientist told fox weather that if gravity were to somehow switch off
04:34the earth's water sources would be flung into space the atmosphere would dissipate and the entire
04:39planet would be ripped apart the only gravitational phenomenon that will actually take place on august 12th
04:46all of the conspiracy theorists being brought back down to earth
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