The Final Experiment is Scheduled for December 2024. Will it Finally Answer the Question?

originally posted by: watchitburn
I still refuse to believe that anyone actually thinks the earth is flat.

Just grifters and trolls looking for attention.

I dated a girl a few years back, first date she was waffling on about how the earth is flat and all that nonsense. She wouldn't have any of it when I tried explaining why I thought it wasn't flat.

Needless to say that date was the only one, shame as she was nice looking too. Just a bit nuts.

Looks like it's happening. Dave McKeegan in the UK had the furthest to travel so maybe he is already on his way to South America, and I think the US based folks leave for South America tomorrow. Once in South America, if the weather permits, they plan to go to Antarctica Dec 14-18, but that's subject to change if the weather looks bad for the plane on those dates.

Some of the Flat Earthers made a youtube video about the trip, they talk about the cold weather gear they will need, and at the end, they showed this graphic from a not yet released web page that I suspect will show up on the final experiment website in the next few days, so you can see where they are on a globe (he said there is no flat earth map to show their location, but the problem is bigger, because that satellite tracking technology wouldn't work on a flat Earth, even if they did have a map)



That's from this boring video over 2 hours long:


It sounds like they plan to do a live stream from South America which is the last place they are sure they can do one. They still aren't sure whether they can do a live stream from Antarctica or not, but they will try.

There is one interesting conspiracy theory in the video, the flat earthers are saying that they all already went to the arctic in June to make the video that they are claiming they are going to make in Antarctica. Their response is tell them what you want them to say in the video, that they couldn't have known about when they pre-recorded the Antarctic video in June. So as expected, that and other forms of cope like the completely implausible artificial sun mentioned in this thread show there's plenty of cope circulating among flat earthers anticipating a possible result which will upset their world view.

These folks were saying after this trip, the next trip they can go on is to be sent to space because one guy said he thinks space is filled with some kind of fluid. Well, space tickets are what? $20 million each? So that's unlikely, and even this trip is costly, I think it's over $30,000 per person, and I think the pastor Will Duffy is paying for 6 people so maybe $200,000.

I guess even if they find out the Earth is a globe, they might have to keep believing space is fake, because I don't see Elon Musk footing the bill to send them to space, but I could be wrong, if he needs some human guinea pigs to test a new unreliable rocket system under development.