'Sir Isaac Newton is laughing': Memes flood social media after 7-second gravity blackout conspiracy theory fails during August 12 solar eclipse

NASA was right. There was no Project Anchor and no gravity blackout happened on August 12, 2026, as a conspiracy theory circulating on social media had claimed.

Earlier this year, conspiracy theories started gaining ground online, claiming that Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026, allegedly because of a secret NASA project called “Project Anchor.”