At the end of the documentary “beyond the curve” the flat earthers manage to get enough money together to buy a gyro laser to prove the earth isn’t spinning. It costed the 20.000 dollars. The found out the earth was spinning constantly. They said needed time to come up with an explanation why this would be happening when the earth was flat, but in no way they thought “maybe we were wrong after all”.
I also like when they got a light to shine through 2 holes and the distance they were at required them to elevate the camera because of the curve of the earth
Haha yeah! Actually I doubt they believe the earth is flat, I got the feeling it’s more an excuse for outcasts to unite and feel unity, the “us against the world” thing. Like: “If no one accepts me, I’ll just go all the way into weirdness and find others who are also not accepted, so we won’t have to be alone. Let our thing be so damn weird and stupid, no accepted person would dare to join us.”
But that’s just my hypothesis after watching this docu and some other stuff about and from them.
But there are some fanatics that actually believe it, but I think they need mental help because they strike as people having a constant psychosis. Even the general group finds them weird and extreme.
As an intellectual exercise, I rather enjoy flat-earth theories. “Knowing” that the earth is round, without having actually proven it for ourselves, is dogmatism, not science.
Constantly challenging even our most basic assumptions is how science advances.
At the end of the documentary “beyond the curve” the flat earthers manage to get enough money together to buy a gyro laser to prove the earth isn’t spinning. It costed the 20.000 dollars. The found out the earth was spinning constantly. They said needed time to come up with an explanation why this would be happening when the earth was flat, but in no way they thought “maybe we were wrong after all”.
I also like when they got a light to shine through 2 holes and the distance they were at required them to elevate the camera because of the curve of the earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqmDazwb6Y
Haha yeah! Actually I doubt they believe the earth is flat, I got the feeling it’s more an excuse for outcasts to unite and feel unity, the “us against the world” thing. Like: “If no one accepts me, I’ll just go all the way into weirdness and find others who are also not accepted, so we won’t have to be alone. Let our thing be so damn weird and stupid, no accepted person would dare to join us.”
But that’s just my hypothesis after watching this docu and some other stuff about and from them.
But there are some fanatics that actually believe it, but I think they need mental help because they strike as people having a constant psychosis. Even the general group finds them weird and extreme.
It’s really sad.
As an intellectual exercise, I rather enjoy flat-earth theories. “Knowing” that the earth is round, without having actually proven it for ourselves, is dogmatism, not science.
Constantly challenging even our most basic assumptions is how science advances.