“The Earth will not lose gravity on Aug 12, 2026. Earth’s gravity, or total gravitational force, is determined by its mass. The only way for Earth to lose gravity would be for the Earth system, the combined mass of its core, mantle, crust, ocean, terrestrial water, and atmosphere, to lose mass.”

“A total solar eclipse has no unusual impact on Earth’s gravity. The gravitational attraction of the Sun and Moon on the Earth, which doesn’t impact Earth’s total gravity, but does impact tidal forces, is well understood and is predictable decades in advance,” says a NASA spokesman called for comment a Snopes fact-check of some stupid bullshit “viral” video claiming that gravity would be interrupted for approximately 7 seconds on the date in question, thus everything not tethered to a fixed object would float briefly before crashing back down as gravity’s force reasserted itself.

Kind of a throwback right? It’s easy to forget after the last ten years or so, but we used to live in a world in which the stupid shit people saw on the internet and decided to believe was mostly pretty harmless, like that you can grow your own kiwi-banana hybrid by grafting them together or that you can stand an egg upside-down on its own because something something during the vernal equinox.

Silly stuff that never got anyone killed or imprisoned… which made fertile ground for belief systems that to this day are still getting people killed or imprisoned. Without getting into it, the only question now is whether ivermectin or anti-5G crystals will be retconned to help with gravity problems.