So, Flat Earthers.
There's a transit of Mercury today. If you have a telescope and can project an image of the sun on to a screen, you can watch it for yourself.
No there isn't. Mercury was constructed by NASA to preserve the Conspiracy.
Its timing and duration has been predicted to great accuracy using standard astronomical models of our heliocentric solar system.
But it's wrong.
How do you lot explain that, I wonder?
The burden of proof lies with you to prove Mercury is real.
How also do you explain the live satellite streaming of the transit both from Nasa and the European Space Agency.
CGI.
Images from which obviously correspond exactly with the images that are available from various places on the ground that have clear sight of the sun today.
There are no consumer telescopes strong enough to see Mercury. They're tightly regulated by NASA so people can only get them if NASA allows it. I know this because I do not have a telescope.
It's a bit much to expect that all the terrestrial observers are faking their images and reports, don't you think?
No real observers. All shills.
Edit: Also, thread number has 666 in it, you can't be trusted.
Alright, now let's see how many of my objection predictions pan out.
First one and the edit were jokes, I'm pretty sure somebody will use the second through fourth and the sixth, and I've actually seen a form of number five here. They said there just weren't any telescopes with a required zoom level though, not that NASA handed them out to their shills.