In what may be one of the most satisfying TV moments we can recall, a group of conspiracy theorists have accidentally spent thousands of dollars to prove that yes, actually, the Earth is round.
The scene in a new Netflix documentary called Behind the Curve, which follows a group of Flat Earthers, a “small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat”.
One of those Flat Earthers is Bob Knodel, who hosts a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the theory and who is one of the team relying on a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn’t actually rotate.
Except… It does.
“What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift,” Knodel explains. “A 15-degree per hour drift.
“Now, obviously we were taken aback by that – ‘Wow, that’s kind of a problem.’
“We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for easy to disprove it was actually registering the motion of the Earth.”
You know what they say: If your experiment proves you wrong, just disregard the results!
“We don’t want to blow this, you know?” Knodel then says to another Flat Earther. “When you’ve got $20,000 in this freaking gyro.
“If we dumped what we found right now, it would be bad? It would be bad.
“What I just told you was confidential.”
When the facts contradict your belief, jettison the facts.
Idiots…tRump supporters most likely.
This is a hit piece video (like the movie) and proves nothing. One bad experiment, doesn’t disprove that NASA has yet to get one correct and complete matching photo of the earth and the moon yet, that is not a composite. Prove that to me, that they can provide a photo that has not been composited, or that sunlight does not appear in the sky at different angled lengths from one focal point, when they should be perpendicularly hitting the earth, when the sun is 93 million miles, and maybe you would have more of an argument. Nasa and the FAA has in their book that aerodynamics happen over a stationary earth. There is science that already proves this, and is known amongst pilots. You don’t need documentaries to prove or disprove anything else. You just need to come out of the state run indoctrination system. How about this crew use a non-lazer gyroscope next time, for starters, or is this movie a red herring argument like all the others.
Oh, look whose feelings are hurt. Cognitive disssonance kicking in, fact disagreeing with beliefs. So sad.
Smack found a troll pillow
You SERIOUSLY believe the earth is flat?????? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Dude, c’mon……..either refill your prescription or get on some kind of psychotropic medication. STAT.