The flat Earth conspiracy has baffled many – one person started a campaign to raise money to send flat Earthers to space to prove to them the planet is round, while others have managed to admit that they were wrong on their own. If the Earth is flat, the theorist believes that someone should be able to shine a torch through both holes without any light being obscured due to the curvature of the Earth. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter The boards are a distance apart and he lines a camera up to point directly in the centre of both holes. In the experiment, the flat Earther make holes in two pieces of board.

A resurfaced clip has shown the moment a flat Earther disproved his own beliefs during an experiment to prove the world isn't round.įlat Earth conspiracists believe that the Earth is a flat plane rather than a spherical shape, but one conspiracy theorist accidentally debunked himself.Ī clip from the documentary 2018 documentary Behind the Curve has gone viral on Reddit after it showed a flat Earther setting up an experiment to prove the Earth is flat, but actually proving the opposite.

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