An Apollo Meme is a joke, not the one its author intended

 This has been shared over 250 times on Facebook - that was some months ago and I'm not counting again. 

Let's start with the image - it couldn't have been taken in space, as all the Apollo astronauts were inside the spacecraft when the Command and Service Module was docked with the Lunar Module in lunar orbit.  So it must be a model, and so it is, from the LEGO IDEAS site.

But what about the "one tank of gas and oxygen"?  First, let's give the memester some credit for not asking how Apollo burned fuel in the vacuum of space.  The various engines and reaction control systems used oxidizers, either liquid oxygen or nitrogen tetroxide.  And how much fuel did the mission carry?  See this video for more information than you thought you were asking for

As usual, this meme shows that while flat-earthers tell you to engage in research, that's something they don't do themselves

Flat Earth and Numismatics

In the last few days (but see note at end), I've seen endless posts in flat-earth groups showing this coin, often misidentified as being Italian.  It's from the Republic of San Marino, the fifth-smallest country in the world, and while it is entirely surrounded by Italy, it's a separate country.   Before both countries changed their currency to the Euro, the Sammarinese lira had the same value as the Italian.

The would also sometimes show a screenshot of a page about this coin, that explained that this shows "Model of flat earth, three stars shining above, value and date below".  A screenshot, not a link, because if you visited the page, you'd see that on the obverse (front) of the coin is

Sometimes they would insist that's not a globe, but we'd show them that the same site described the reverse of the next coin in the series as "Spherical earth as seen from moon".

The series is called Toward the third millennium - Man & the exploration of his world, all of the coins have the same image on the obverse, and the coins in it would have something old on the reverse of one, and something new on the next.

The 50 Lire coin shows a sailboat, the 100 a submarine under the Arctic ice-cap

 

The 200 Lire has Stonehenge beneath stars and the 500 the surface of the Moon, radio waves, and Saturn

The 1000 Lire coin has a human profile, the North star, waves of Mediterranean and Nile delta and a wind rose, the 5000 a map of Europe and North Africa, the solar system, and an antenna dish in a human mind

Note: while this has really taken off recently, I found a few posts about this from nearly a year ago, I think this is the earliest.  And then I found this one from 2021