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In what may be one of the most enjoyable TV moments we can recall, a bunch of conspiracy theorists unintentionally spent thousands of dollars to show that, yes, the Earth is round.
A scene from Behind the Curve, a new Netflix documentary that follows a group of Flat Earthers, a “small but rising faction of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy that the Earth is flat.”
Bob Knodel is one of those Flat Earthers. He runs a YouTube channel dedicated to the theory and is part of the team using a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn’t rotate.
“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.”
A scene from Behind the Curve, a new Netflix documentary that follows a group of Flat Earthers, a “small but rising faction of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy that the Earth is flat.”
Bob Knodel is one of those Flat Earthers. He runs a YouTube channel dedicated to the theory and is part of the team using a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn’t rotate.
However, it does. Knodel explains:
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. (note: 24 times 15 happens to be 360, if you were wondering)“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.”
Flat Earther Spends $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat And Accidentally Proves It’s Round
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