Curve Your Enthusiasm

Flat Earthers disproving their own theory

[@selcuk1479]

give this man a medal for discovering something which is discovered 1000s years ago ....

[@buggsy5]

@@hannahjohn2053 It was first recorded/calculated by Aristophanes, a couple of millennia ago.

[@Pseudynom]

*2700 to 2800 years ago. "It has been suggested that seafarers probably provided the first observational evidence that the Earth was not flat, based on observations of the horizon. This argument was put forward by the geographer Strabo (c. 64 BC - 24 AD), who suggested that the spherical shape of the Earth was probably known to seafarers around the Mediterranean Sea since at least the time of Homer,[58] citing a line from the Odyssey[59] as indicating that the poet Homer knew of this as early as the 7th or 8th century BC." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#Strabo Edit: 9000 --> 2700 to 2800

[@motivationcure9312]

LOL

[@hedduyou]

I think the whole thing behind flat earthers is that they want to see it for themselves. Yeah you read that this was done before in a book, but you cant youtube a video of it oddly enough, so that isn't good enough for a lot of people.

[@qsdfqsdf5615]

@@Pseudynom *2700-2800 years ago ;)

[@bigmemes9604]

INTRESTING

[@Starxteel]

Actually it was a gravit...electromagnetic anomaly pulling the photons down between the light and the camera, because I'm a pigeon on a chessboard, ye yee

[@alicemiriah]

Starxteel KJB1611 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@kyleralvey1354]

I can never escape TwoSet references...And I never want to, may Ling Ling be with you brother

[@MysteryStew5977]

@@Starxteel I'm sure that will be their next insane rationale for why every single metric possible points to the earth being a round

[@somanytakennames]

No doubt they'll ignore this and still think the Earth is flat and do some other pointless experiment.

[@razor4155]

You cant be so dumb to believe something you cant even see in the dark that's how we have been brainwashed to believe something just because we are being told take a laser and to the same experiment for ur self and see if u have to raise an object 23ft on the other end for the laser to hit it

[@JFein]

@Razor what

[@SatoshixzLP]

@@razor4155 nice england bro

[@razor4155]

@@SatoshixzLP nice england? Lol check your own English before u try to criticize others

[@SatoshixzLP]

@@razor4155 do you hear that? Far far away? Wait it's coming a bit closer now, ah I can finally hear it: r/wooosh

[@manchester26m]

I give props to this guy for actually putting together an experiment to test his ideas though. Thats more that you get with a lot of FE's

[@Xurley12]

why would we go through the effort of doing it, we already know the earth is round silly

[@chrisplaster3502]

Yeah we need to stop giving out participation trophies 🏆 for things. My kid watches Blippi and he does what floats and what sinks, not sure he expected kudos lol

[@BestAnimeFreak]

As far as I know, he is still a flat earther though ... So ... yeah ... even if they do stuff right, they fail ...

[@kaikart123]

@@Xurley12 no we don't, this guy is just misled but he actually tried to find the truth and that's better than just accepting something as a fact without you ever see if it's real.

[@markusbrownicus01]

No, he's a fraud. He and Bob Knodel only wanted to do an experiment to confirm his beliefs. The instant they got contradictory evidence and confirmed the null hypotheses, they scrapped the results and kept looking for more experiments that proved the earth is flat. Nowhere does either man say they were wrong about their predictions and admit that the earth may be curved and rotating. They just dismissed or invented reasons the experiment was flawed. So they do not get props for trying. All they tried to do was prove themselves right. When they failed, they ignored the results.

[@DirkKoster]

Something every sailor has noticed ever since the invention of the lighthouse.

[@ephesianarmorytchannel6838]

Except that lighthouses can be seen for many miles. Many many miles beyond what is possible on a globe.

[@sebastienvondoom8615]

@@ephesianarmorytchannel6838 Incorrect you just don't understand height

[@frbe0101]

@@ephesianarmorytchannel6838 How far it can be seen is proportional to how high it is above the sea surface and how high the observer is as well, if the earth was flat this would not be so.

[@stolearovigor281]

@@frbe0101 there is an online calculator. You can check it for yourself.

[@stolearovigor281]

Sailors also noticed same stars over and over and over. Also they noticed the law of perspective. Some simple things that are foreign for a smartass like you any many other. (Me inclusive 3 years ago 😂)

[@jstohler]

"OK OK that didn't work. But what if -- and hear me out -- what if the Earth is shaped like a taco shell?"

[@gorillazfan3]

Taco Bell has entered chat.

[@gorillazfan3]

@@louiebarzini252 found the flat earther.

[@nafaidni]

@@louiebarzini252 what the fuck

[@M.0lten]

@@louiebarzini252 ??????

[@kahlzun]

.. And incidentally that is how we know the earth to be banana shaped.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

The fact that the High Ground exists at the curve of the Earth is proof that the planet is round.

[@stephenrehak4986]

Hello there!

[@Sometimes_Always]

The Obi Wan theory..

[@z0ttel89]

General Plateaubi!

[@Cain353]

"Don't try it flat earther." FE; "You underestimate my stupidity!"

[@KaeraNeko]

You've got it.

[@adolin1338]

there you have it folks, the sound of cognitive dissonance - "INTERESTING"

[@kahlzun]

To be fair, "that's interesting" is the most important step towards science

[@sirmonke4243]

kahlzun earth is still a globe tho

[@frbe0101]

@@kahlzun Generally people say "interesting" when they discover something new, not when they just failed to disprove something known for thousands of years!

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

His brain actually started smoking while he tried to come up an excuse on the fly in front of the camera.

[@perfectionbox]

"Some secret government agency is interfering with the light." 🤣

[@tekborg8669]

omg you are right !!!

[@touce3649]

No Bro it was 5G

[@ateachableheart2649]

LOL!!!! good one!

[@perfectionbox]

"I think it's some kind of macroscopic quantum observer/measurement phenomenon... when you measure the Earth, it appears as curved even though it's flat." "My God dude, you're a genius! That's gotta be it!"

[@TheBaldOne]

In the middle of this doc they spent 15k buying a laser gyro, which then behaves exactly as expected (precessed 15° every hour), they come to terms with it by doubling down and saying the software itself is designed to do that so that it would behave as if the earth was round.

[@alicemiriah]

I died laughing at this. I’m about to rewatch the documentary. This was the best thing ever

[@gamingfreak843]

Name of the documentary ?

[@alicemiriah]

Gaming Freak Behind** The Curve

[@migueljrcaceres]

At what time in the documentary they show this?

[@alicemiriah]

@@migueljrcaceres it’s the very last scene. The credits began to show directly after and during the credits, they show one guy explaining what “went wrong”.

[@Patsik]

I could have skipped to the last minute...lol

[@jayw350]

The sad part is that it's extremely unlikely that this person changed his mind about the flat earth even though he adhered to the tenets of flat earthers (only trust what you've seen with your own eyes) and proved flat earth theory wrong. I'd just like to see the bullshit rationalization he comes up with to keep believing that the earth is flat.

[@daniellassander]

The person in question would be a youtuber by the name Jeranism and no he has not changed his mind at all, why let evidence come in the way of your beliefs :)

[@jayw350]

@@daniellassander I figured as much, because it's not about an evidence-based worldview, but about an identity that allows people to feel special or superior (going bravely against the nefarious 'they', possessing special knowledge that 'they' don't want anyone to know, etc). Anything that demonstrates that the earth is a sphere is an attack on their very identity and as such is rejected, usually through some convoluted logic.

[@PirateTHESteam1]

Folding Ideas did an excellent video on why flat earthers are unlikely to change their mind even when presented with irrefutable evidence. It's called "In Search Of A Flat Earth ".

[@aaronvanallen1437]

Ironically just after this they discuss on camera of how to bury this test and keep it from being released because it disproves their theory. They know better they just see it as a marketing tool/ money grab for merch sales

[@Yevonite27]

Wait you're telling me flat earthers also practice Nillius in verba? (On no ones word)? Yet they still reject their own damn results?? Wtf is wrong with these people

[@blueluny]

They should have ended the documentary this way. The longest meme setup ever would have had me rolling around the room.

[@memeswereablessingfromthel3942]

YES!!

[@tynan419]

They did end it this way

[@AsprosOfAzeroth]

Thing is, they did end it there. It cuts to black as soon as he says "INTRESTING" xD

[@polite_as_fuck]

You should be rolling around the room, because this _is_ the final scene of the documentary.

[@blueluny]

@@polite_as_fuck no I mean EXACTLY like this... With the whole curb your enthusiasm music, credits etc

[@futuresick100]

Flat Earther Response: All this proves is that device manufacturers have hard-coded the instruments with algorithms that compensate for the true flatness of the Earth to make it seem like it's not indeed flat, but round. The plot thickens boys!

[@GiuseppeV]

This comment is underrated hahaha

[@craigfortier17]

Fish eye lights

[@aaddiis45021]

You are literally giving them ideas

[@messengerfromabove3930]

Calvin Cooper kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHekqIWYgLGMe9E

[@MrTrevortxeartxe]

This is EXACTLY what they would say 🤣

[@Derp___]

The sound he makes at 0:33 😂😂

[@thetrollgehasbegun]

He knows that he’s been proven wrong at that very moment lol.

[@nathanielwindsor7679]

I mean, I, ee, y'know, it's's, umm

[@MarceloB]

"We just proved the earth is round that doesn't mean anything"

[@basec0m]

I always tell these guys, find the edge, then call me

[@WXKFA]

haven't you heard about the pac man effect?

[@rus2938]

@@WXKFA Lmao flat earthers really out here making dumb shit up to make us look smart. I applaud

[@projectmayhem6898]

"I been to the edge and there I stood and looked down." David Lee Roth 1978

[@milaan_tm]

That experiment was FLAT on

[@profphilbell2075]

LOL. A group of scammers taking advantage of people with questionable mental acuity

[@princesssmileyface91]

This is gold 😂😂 would like to see his excuse after this.

[@KubiqFeet]

Well, what you saw was heavenly radiation rays which umm.. which bent the umm.. the electromagnetic radiation and interfered with the experiment.. and uhh atmospheric lensing caused the umm.. the light to bend. Also! This is very important.. that camera that was used, and also every camera in the world has special "anti-flat-earth"™️ technology so it was programmed to not capture the light at first because NASA and the blood-lines don't want those experiments to succeed because then they would.. umm.. be proven wrong and that we umm.. truly live on a pancake earth! Yeah, that's it!

[@princesssmileyface91]

KubiqFeet 😂😂😂

[@KubiqFeet]

@@princesssmileyface91 See? It makes people like you and me laugh out loud at the absurdity.. but their own explanations aren't any better than that.. especially hearing that guy Mark Sargent guy talk.. after seeing direct evidence of a curve from the experiment on the water, he was very cocky and said "I saw atmospheric lensing, distortion and Data Morgana effect as we predicted = flat". That's why there's really no point in getting in any sort of discussion with these people. You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into. The funny part is that the core of it really had nothing to do with flat earth, it's psychological, a group they can belong to and feel accepted. They get an ego boost and maybe dealt with self esteem issues and now this group tells them that they're the smart ones because they weren't brainwashed, that they didn't have the wool pulled over their eyes like the rest of us brainwashed folks. It's quite literally a cult and using reason and logic won't accomplish anything. We can only hope to deter people on the fence about joining them. The real culprits are the ones that run these organizations, they take advantage of the mentally susceptible to manipulation and people who are struggling and sell them snake oil and then profit off of them while knowingly peddling lies. I think Mark Sargent doesn't believe in any of this shit, but he's got fame, a following and can make a bunch of money off of them while they're non-the-wiser

[@michaelcwu4466]

If you watch the documentary this is from (Behind the Curve), they come up with a number of excuses, and they're played as the end credits roll. One excuse is that the light was hitting the weeds when it was held low, which is kind of absurd considering that the light was held 17 feet above the ground. It's all a bunch of hand-wavy garbage, which is the same stuff the entire Flat Earth theory is built on.

[@princesssmileyface91]

Michael Wu I gotta see it.

[@jdk5281]

I once talked to a flat-Earther who said, "if the Earth was round, airplanes would have to keep dipping the nose of the plane down so they don't fly off into space." I was so stunned I didn't even know what to say to that. Just like, where do you even begin with these people?

[@xxkwijiboxx]

you begin by loading your shotgun

[@jonathanleslie9100]

they do the same thing when they make the roads too.

[@jdk5281]

@Straight Out Of Planeptune lol

[@jl25735]

You begin by explaining how gravity works by starving everything to the center of the round earth

[@itsaboutthattime4425]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tfp9978]

Curve your Enthusiasm... wow. Thank you, that made my day!

[@itsianwood]

Just watching some CYE now...awesome

[@snerttt]

Bruh moment

[@ElectroSwingingIt]

“Interesting…” TRANSLATION: “Oh sh_t.”

[@1NASDAQ]

😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 ... if the earth was flat EVERY COUNTY would have day n night at the same time.

[@randomvids6546]

I bet if he was on the international space station and saw the earth as round he would think it is fake

[@Guitarded]

i love how this was their "back up experiment" . haha what was the first failed one? hahah

[@alicemiriah]

Have you seen the documentary? The experiments and conventions were hilarious

[@chybaignacy5368]

They bought an expansive gyroscope that was supposed to measure wether the earth was sponning or not and despite getting consisten reading proving globe earth they still didnt believe it

[@johnvincentreyes855]

Khadejah Colbert what is the documentary called?

[@alicemiriah]

John Vincent Reyes behind the curve. If you can’t find it on Netflix, it’s on here to buy or rent

[@jonathanf3604]

The first experiment was similar. They were going to use a laser, shining it through a hole in a board in the middle of the lake , and then see what height it hit a board on the other side at. Basically they were expecting it to stay at the same level since the earth is flat. But since the laser was too far away, the beam was spreading out way too wide by the time it got to the other side and they couldn’t get a measurement.

[@valtenLbOz1495]

I like how their go-to word in response to being disproven is "Interesting".

[@sample.text.]

I mean look, he doesn't seem like a dim-witted schlub just falling for conspiracy theories.. and the fact that seemingly normal people still think the Earth is flat is mind boggling to me.

[@unadin4583]

Thank you for uploading this. You may want to add some more info to the description. There was one commenter who didn't realize where this footage came from and didn't realize that the people doing this experiment were flat earthers.

[@siccoblue2112]

The issue is that you expect these people to not only read but also accept the description as fact

[@unadin4583]

@@siccoblue2112 I stopped watching and commenting on flat earth videos about a year ago, and I have found that my overall mental state has improved quite a bit since then. You might reach that point someday as well. After a while the joke runs its course and it just becomes depressing.

[@ForkInTheButt]

It's not that is round, it's gravity that's pulling the light downwards the more distance there is. /s

[@amichak123]

Flat earthers often don't believe in gravity instead they believe that either buoyancy is the cause of things falling or the flat earth is accelerating through space at a rate that mimics gravity.

[@TheBaldOne]

Every now and again i think about this moment. I was so fucking funny that i recommended seeing this documentary (Behind the Curve) to anyone whenever we joke about flat eathers at work.

[@pierre8235]

He litteraly proved that earth is a sphere!

[@leyasep5919]

This can't be a proof because... well, it goes against his beliefs.

[@bertholdreiter5093]

Could be a cylinder

[@pekkavaisanen5512]

@@bertholdreiter5093 true, need to check 90° different direction to conclude if it's cylinder or sphere. :)

[@MelancholyCrypto]

Give them a clap for actually testing and figuring this out I guess? although maybe make that a slow sarcastic clap.

[@4547466]

They disregarded their findings and didn't actually care about it though...

[@MelancholyCrypto]

@@4547466 That makes me really sad

[@MisterDibitybopty]

Why don't all these flat earthers put their money together, get a boat and sail "to the edge of the earth" and document what they see?

[@Philitron128]

They actually think that the military will sink their ship. That's their excuse lol

[@thesecdef4865]

This will never not be funny

[@drsch]

I'm a bit confused. As someone who has literally flown around the earth going to the same direction (west) 4 times over the course of living and traveling abroad, what is the explanation flat Earth believers give for me being able to continually fly west and eventually get back to my home?

[@talanock]

you've never done it, you are lying, you are in on the cover up, it was an illusion and you were actually flying in circles etc etc. You can't reason people out of a position they weren't reasoned into.

[@backatit4757]

East and West are supposed to be circular paths on a flat earth.

[@ricedbroccoli]

i've heard some of them say "The Pacman Effect". Literally fucking teleporting to the other side once you hit the edge

[@leyasep5919]

they don't give explanations, they give pretexts.

[@jadams65]

Priceless!

[@dylgreco]

if only they applied this scientific rigor (with accepting their results) to literally anything else

[@86kutz92]

When watching the documentary, it's funny to hear the excuses about the experiment. Going on about how they retested and basically the results were different so they have no conclusion . Why wasn't that shown on film then ??? 😆

[@alicemiriah]

💀💀💀

[@ScienceFalselySoCalled]

They had an agreement to be given the footage, but then the producers said it belonged to netflix. It's all documented on his youtube channel. Pretty bad of them not to show the whole thing imo.

[@jamesmurphy4439]

Oh boy I can't wait for this guy who appreciates and understands science to rebase his opinion on newly found evidence.... Any time now, I know he will

[@leyasep5919]

"Interesting" Thank you Captain Obvious.

[@nitramyellek442011]

Why would they lie about the earth being round? What is the payoff?

[@messengerfromabove3930]

Nasa gets about $50M a day. Thet may also be hiding extra land and resources.

[@messengerfromabove3930]

Saatvik Bhayana I don't know the past. We are currently discussing present but I would probably guess the payoff would be power,control and money.

[@messengerfromabove3930]

Accidently on Purpose Check youtube channels: Ditrh, GlobeBusters, Globebusters2 or Authenic Intent. Netflix documentaries are made to mock and discredit real flat earth channels.

[@ctrash]

@@messengerfromabove3930 You don't know the past but we do because it was well documented and recorded. Go read a fucking history book before you peddle that already debunked bullshit.

[@messengerfromabove3930]

Chairman Trash Again, we are not discussing the past. We are discussing the present facts. There is a big Flat Earth community that has debunked the globe with scientific proof. Take the earth curvature calculator and try it for your self.

[@milk_bath]

Video title is the real MVP.

[@chillyourself5208]

Interesting indeed, fascinating in fact.

[@tyroneweekes1983]

I love how once he said interesting it went straight to the credits meaning end of story checkmate it was the ultimate slap in the face to flatearthers

[@turn_the_cheese_upsidedown]

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a flat earther. The flat earth "theory" is incredibly dumb and unscientific. Say what you will about this guy, but he actually did science. He created a hypothesis, set up an experiment, and tested his theory. Not very many flat earthers are willing to do that.

[@olivercharles2930]

And still disproved himself.

[@turn_the_cheese_upsidedown]

@@olivercharles2930 Yeah, but the act of disproving oneself is a core part of science. The thing I hate is that he didn't accept the results, and rather tried to find a way around it. That's not real science. But the actual experimentation and invalidation of a hypothesis is actual science, and I somewhat respect him for that.

[@Gravydog316]

yes, but then he refused to accept the scientific results so, he's a moron

[@DwwwD]

Interesting.... Very interesting indeed 🤣

[@iwannamynickagain]

...and to all believing in religion. IT IS THE SAME!

[@Dutchessruby252]

How is it so much proof that the earth is round no proof that it’s flat, flat Earthers can’t come up with any proof and yet they still don’t believe

[@l3ny867]

*INTERESTING*

[@messengerfromabove3930]

L3nny GD kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHekqIWYgLGMe9E

[@LeBonkJordan]

obligatory quote from "In Search of a Flat Earth" by Dan Olson: On the surface, Flat Earthers share many of the same anxieties as the rest of us: they are worried about the power structures that have immense influence over our lives, the systems that shape the information we have access to, and the shared fictions that society operates on - like money and rent. But there is, perhaps, an over-willingness to treat them as harmless cranks, as though we can start from their shared frustrations with the world, and just gently nudge them in a more sensible direction. These common anxieties are a shared coordinate that is, I think, far more superficial than we would want it to be, because while we’re all worried and skeptical of what people in power are doing, Flat Earthers have very, very different ideas about who’s in power and what they’re trying to do with it. Flat Earthers are not otherwise empty vessels who believe one kooky thing. They believe that thing because it suits their purposes. Flat Earthers have an agenda. The end goal of conspiratorial beliefs is to simplify reality by attributing the high-chaos state of the world to a singular active force or group opposed by an equally singular solution. Their anxiety is that the world has become too complex, that too many things are changing, and that science and progressivism are actively malicious elements working to obstruct the true nature of god. Most people don’t actually believe Flat Earth because they were persuaded by shoddy evidence, or they found other evidence to be less persuasive about the nature of the physical world; they do so because it says something they already believe about the nature of the social world. Flat Earth is a thing people want to believe because, if it were true, it would be irrefutable proof of everything else they believe. Flat Earth is a system that selectively delegitimizes power structures and does so by working backwards. Flat Earth insists that you are being lied to by “them”, typically gays, liberals, or Jews, in order to obfuscate the existence of God, and are thus not merely an opponent of their isolationist, xenophobic policies, but an enemy of righteousness itself. They are not trying to explain the world, they are attempting to un-explain it, because those explanations, the real explanations, have become inconvenient to their politics. And while there is a shared sense of the world being out of whack, the diagnosis and prescriptions are very different.

[@JefiKnight]

Why can they see the light at all if the camera is lower due to earth curve? Just how far was everything from everything else? I need more than a one minute clip to make sense of it.

[@cassiooliveira9429]

thanks for making this

[@JamesB00n]

was gonna make this myself if it hadn't been done before. perfect!

[@razor4155]

You was going to make a fake video showing nothing? That's great add to the mountain of lies why dont u.

[@scptime1188]

@@razor4155 How is it showing nothing? Experiments show things, doofus.

[@razor4155]

@@scptime1188 it's all in complete darkness IT SHOWS NOTHING!!!

[@scptime1188]

@@razor4155 you can see the light in the camera screen. Are you blind or something? The results wouldn't change because of the lighting conditions. You would just need a brighter light because it would be daytime.

[@razor4155]

@@scptime1188 why didn't they do it in the day time? Ik u want the ball lie to be true but open ur eyes man go out there and see for yourself

[@quinnlintott406]

Cognitive Dissonance be wilding with this one.

[@SighsInternally]

even if the earth was flat surely they realize a hill would throw this whole experiment off

[@doddermodd]

This was done at sea level.

[@hannahjohn2053]

This experiment make them know how their brains flat are :))

[@fridge3489]

Yoda?

[@okayge_]

Interesting... LMAOO

[@wabek5882]

mMmmmMMMm lmao, this moment is.

[@davidickadavidu7058]

Enrique gon be fired after this one

[@ScreamingScallop]

Oh no...ENRIQUE IS PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!

[@DevilWearsAdidas]

in his defense, it could very well be just a non-flat landmass that he's testing on. Not that this proves or disproves anything. Who knows what kind of land they are on. xD However, I do know that I can look across the ocean and not see mount Everest, so there's that. That's a little too big of a landmass to not be able to see at all from across the world. lol

[@yungchop6332]

I mean I would assume they did it on flat ground.

[@DevilWearsAdidas]

@@yungchop6332 yes but even flat ground has some imperfections. Its not a good test by any means. I could see if they tested this on a highway or something with paved roads maybe. This just isn't a good test lol flat earth or round, land is land and ground isn't 100% flat.

[@derekleiro]

If you watched the documentary, they did it on a flat plane. The guy was around 3 miles away from the camera as well

[@mattm7426]

@@DevilWearsAdidas they did it on water not ground

[@azurefrost3264]

They're conducting experiment like the Earth has the area of a football field

[@_tarnished_]

That's just the scale of the diagram.. They're actually a few miles away from each other (enough to see a curve)

[@mustafakarakuscu8207]

Yes interesting, living up to this time

[@bbbeats72]

"Interesting" 😂😂😂

[@nesy3634]

Thanks for proving that the Earth is round....Again, lmao.

[@ohsotoxic8386]

What the original video?

[@Pomme843]

"behind the curve"

[@iadrian7569]

Pomme843 on Netflix

[@messengerfromabove3930]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5vUYqKkl62Sbs0

[@shlb3692]

what was the distance?

[@brad3d]

This is so satisfying to watch... LOL

[@Massivecarcrash]

Adhering to their own models, they should be able to fly closer to the sun and observe an increasing circumferance (including heat). Wouldnt that just be easier? But, no, they got to spend 20 000 on gear that just end up proving them wrong, then blaming the gear for giving them the wrong readings. Pretty sure that for 20 000, you can take a a couple of high altitude flights and see for yourself. The russians probably have some shit like that.

[@xxFortunadoxx]

So this is totally unnecessary. You can prove this with math and the simplest observation. The radius of the earth is 3960 miles. Take a hypothetical point one mile from your position, then link them together. You now have two legs of a triangle which means you can use the Pythagorean Theorem to get the third leg or hypotenuse. The pythagorean theorem is a²+b²=c². 3960miles²=15,681,600, 1miles²=1, so c² is 15,681,601 miles. When you square root the hypotenuse to get the actual length of c, you come up with 3960.000126 miles. The .000126 is the expected curvature of a point one mile from your current position, in miles. Multiply that by 5280 to convert it to feet and you get .66528 feet. Multiply that by 12 to convert it to inches and you get 7.98 inches. So for every mile away from your current position, the expected curvature of the earth is nearly 8 inches. So if every mile away from your current position is .66528 feet, then a point 10 miles from your current position would be .66528 x 10, or 6.6528 feet. So in 10 miles, there is a curvature of around 6.65 feet. A Toyota Camry is around 57 inches in height, or just shy of 5 feet tall. The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah are among the flattest places on the planet, so much so that the difference in altitude at any given point to any other given point never varies more than 8 inches. Because of this, we can isolate any potential curvature of the earth, and not have to worry about altitude changes. If you aren't convinced that the salt flats are as flat as people say they are you can drive across them with an altimeter and measure it yourself. The Salt Flats are around 12 miles in length. To demonstrate the curvature of the earth, park a Camry or some other car of comparable height on one end of the Salt Flats, drive 10 miles straight across the flats, then get out of the car with binoculars and look for the car. You will not be able to see it because it dipped below the horizon. With the assumption that the radius of the earth is what it is, simple arithmetic, and a simple observation, you can prove without a shadow of a doubt that the earth is round. There's no need for complex experiments that require cameras or gyroscopes. There's a reason that it's been known that the earth has been round since antiquity; because it's actually very easy to prove.

[@backatit4757]

How did we calculate the radius of earth?

[@xxFortunadoxx]

@@backatit4757 In the 3rd century BC, a greek mathematician/philosopher named Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth by measuring the difference in light shadows from wells at noon from two different cities whose distance from each other were known. That degree in change of the shadow gives you the angle of the sun in degrees, which when divided by 360 degrees for a circle, gives you a rough estimate of the circumference of the Earth. From the circumference, you merely have to divide the circumference by 2 and pi to get the radius. We've known the Earth was round for over 2 millennia. It's a trivial experiment to perform that requires eyes and basic arithmetic.

[@tomconcannon7721]

Your math is not quite correct as the relationship between distance and curvature is not linear.

[@williamwilson6499]

But like all religions, they just disregard what doesn’t support their faith.

[@Gravydog316]

imagine a world without religion ahhhh that would be heaven

[@leithal1546]

At least Styrofoam and a torch is way cheaper than $20,000.

[@darkworld9850]

But you have to respect people that actually test what they say BY THEMSELVES.

[@caffeineevil178]

Not if they do their experiment and still disbelieve, I don't. They literally set up an experiment to see if the earth was flat. When proven it was round they consider the test failed. I have no respect for them.

[@Joelontugs]

He was think it was about to be big brain time lmao

[@anotherwolff3650]

Interesting!!!!! in deed INTERESTING!!!!!

[@canaanclb]

Thanks Bob!

[@etxkevin7452]

"..interesting." And a fool was proven wrong yet refuses to accept the truth.

[@Topshelf786]

"Hmm, interesting " 🤔 😂

[@rylanddiome1286]

"interesting." lmao

[@ishmael_03]

That was embarrassing. SMH.

[@hiramromero2941]

"Interesting!"....hahahhaha.

[@blaker18]

The original music works fine for this moment

[@pletiplot]

17 feet is quite a lot but it is needed to eliminate effects of light "bowing" in heterogenous air layers.

[@austinatomTV]

And they’re still in denial

[@hizee5515]

This is crazy this is just a small example of people will believe what they want to believe but in the age of misinformation that's fucken terrifying!!

[@dricoirving3236]

Have they "debunked" this yet LOL

[@Kyle-pj2vc]

Yes, one of the cameras was a specifically lower point of elevation; therefore, all this proves is that the earth can be flat with peaks and troughs in elevation.

[@Kyle-pj2vc]

@WITE FOX I'm not a flat earther, lol

[@magicstone3802]

"Interesting" Well, probably after that, he did some tingling and tangling and it got him back into flat earther, mmm no no no.

[@ArmandXhaja86]

My wise grandad used to say: Why look for traces when you have the wolf?

[@skev303uk]

They actually did the research

[@olivercharles2930]

And disproved their whole theory.

[@Smoke1]

The documentary is called *_Behind the Curve._* God I hate it when a bunch of people get together and talk about something without a single one of them actually bothering to mention what they are talking about. Had to dig in pretty deep in the comments to get the name of said documentary.

[@Ghennesph]

Why can't I find a link to the source video on the source channel?

[@Gravydog316]

KZbin keeps removing it, because they keep complaining that this makes them look bad

[@juztneerml312]

the funny thing is.. the other man holding other laser is 23ft tall.. 😂

[@Tigercam24]

"Interesting" 😂

[@nathankirklambo1986]

Even just looking at the moon, you can see the shadows around the edges… because of the curve of its surface.

[@Gravydog316]

i love how everything in space is round, except Earth, which is round 🤣

[@brianlong9100]

They did their own research

[@D4rk3clipse]

Interesting indeed.

[@Gravydog316]

yes. as a new docto myself, it's interesting that he is the result of inbreeding.

[@321findus]

Me, coming home to see my entire family has been brutally murdered: "Interesting"

[@kurtklingbeil6900]

Brilliant!!

[@james555c]

At least these guys tried, most of them just chat a load of nonsense about you should take what people say for the truth

[@jaydenbuchanan8083]

I saw that and saw his face and it made me fell bad