Hey everyone my name is Mike and welcome
in today's video we're going to look at
one of the biggest conspiracy theories
to emerge over the last few years and
also by far the stupidest like to me
this makes lizard people seem perfectly
plausible to be honest I'm not even
entirely sure this isn't just a whole
group of people banding together to
troll everyone or if there's some big
joke that I'm not aware of but today
we're going to look at the Flat Earth
conspiracy let's see what happens when I
look out the window for curvature
enjoying the non curvature how close the
Sun seems to be we're told that it's 93
million miles away I'm gonna go ahead
and object to that look at window with
me and notice that there is no curvature
you're gonna hear me say it again in the
future the earth is flat as the name
suggests flat earthers believe the world
is completely flat like a coin I guess
but I don't know what they think happens
at the edges does the water just fall
off and what's underneath the coin
what's there essentially the earth is a
disk with the Arctic Circle in the
center and Antarctica a 150 foot tall
wall of ice around the rim like Game of
Thrones NASA employees they say guard
this ice wall to prevent people from
climbing over and falling off the disk
you're thinking the ancient Greeks knew
thousands of years ago that the world
was round so what gives
well that's the conspiracy many
flat-earthers believe in science when it
suits them they believed that the earth
is the center of the universe the planet
was created five thousand years ago blah
blah blah it says in the Bible of the
world is flat so what more do you need
there you go the modern Flat Earth
Society started in the 1800's with 1
Samuel Rowbotham he conducted an
experiment known as the Bedford level
experiment he waded into the middle of a
river the Old Bedford River which has a
6 mile stretch that is perfectly
straight he then used a telescope held
eight inches above the water to watch a
boat with a flag on its mast three feet
above the water row away from him he
said that the flag remained constantly
in his view for the full six miles
whereas had the water surface been
curved with the accepted circumference
of a spherical earth the top of the mast
should have been some 11 feet below his
sideline this kind of stuff is the basis
of flat-earthers belief but what old
Sammy Botham didn't take into
consideration was atmospheric refraction
it's a light bends through the
atmosphere it's what produces mirages
and so forth
if he had actually had the telescope ten
feet higher the flag would have
disappeared as closer to the ground the
light bends no this is the kind of stuff
that science can easily disprove but
they just won't have it they just won't
have it they believe images of the earth
clearly showing it as round our fate and
that scientists are pulling a hoax which
would replace religion with science I
mean they kind of are but in a good way
try meditating those genital warts away
next time see if it works
just been speculation so what I'm gonna
do I'm gonna take my spirit level on to
the plane and prop it to a point to
where it's level and I'm going to record
the fact that the bubble stays perfectly
centered and while that bubble staying
perfectly centered it's gonna be rather
anti-climactic but that's proof that the
earth is flat what it is there is none
or at least none that can't be easily
disproven by you know actual science so
let's take a gander at the Flat Earth
Society website for you know some weird
our core beliefs this should be good by
the way we have an Ori background around
Earth I feel like that's just important
terminology for you to know you're an
Ori earth so first up what evidence do
you have the evidence for a flat earth
is derived from many different facets of
science and philosophy
so essentially cherry-picking the parts
of science that agree with your argument
and then using philosophy which is
outsides the simplest is by relying on
one's own senses to discern the true
nature of the world around us the world
looks flat the bottoms of clouds are
flat the movement of the Sun these are
all examples of your senses telling you
we do not live in a spherical
heliocentric world perhaps the best
example of Flat Earth proof is the
Bedford level experiment which has been
disproven many times many other
experiments demonstrating the lack of
curvature in the earth may be found in
earth not a globe by Samuel Rowbotham
now I I haven't read this fascinating
piece of literature myself but one thing
that it doesn't say is that this book
was written
in 1881 so it might be a little
out-of-date people have been into space
have they not discovered that the earth
is flat the most commonly accepted
explanation of this is that the space
agencies of the world are involved in a
conspiracy faking space travel and
exploration
there are many pictures on the internet
and in other media depicting the earth
as being round why do these not disprove
Flat Earth theory in general we have the
Flat Earth Society do not lend much
credibility to photographic evidence it
is too easily manipulated and altered
gotta love that one just everything's
fake right fake fake fake ultra fake you
know this isn't even what I look like
I'm I'm faking this video vais visited a
Flat Earth convention about 500 people
attended which is either good or bad
depending on how you look at it my
favorite quote of the article has to be
I don't think any conspiracy theory is
stupid I don't think anything would be a
conspiracy theory if there wasn't a
little bit of truth to it
I've never investigated any that I've
come to a conclusion that they were a
hundred percent true or a hundred
percent false there is always a little
gray area everywhere that's kind of true
I believe many conspiracy theories have
some truth to them except your one your
one is stupid
your conspiracy theory is the one that
doesn't have an ounce of truth to it
there is no gray area in the Flat Earth
conspiracy it's just bread that is to
say it's shit and a few famous people
have even got on board the whole thing
the rapper b.o.b is famous for having
gotten into a Twitter fight with
physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson over
whether the earth is round
b.o.b attempted to crowdfund his own
rocket launch to carry a camera into
space to look for the curvature of the
earth I will be raising funds to try
every of
experiment and test including but not
limited to weather balloons drones
blimps even high-altitude balloons and
whatever else or any type of suggestion
that anybody has so so I'll be
documenting this whole process and I'll
keep everybody updated on this role to a
million and how the funds will be used
to to research and come to a conclusion
thank you all for participating instead
of looking for the curvature of the
earth why doesn't he just send a camera
up there and see if he can see China
because if the world is flat shouldn't
you be able to see everything if you're
high up enough just a question two
months after the fundraiser was posted
b.o.b had reached six thousand eight
hundred and eighty three of his 1
million dollar goal the first thousand
dollar donated himself sad Kyrie Irving
of the Celtics said he believes in a
flat earth in 2017 he said his original
statements were just on exploration
tactic I thought people should do their
own research when I started actually
doing research on my own and figuring
out that there is no real picture of
Earth like there's not one picture of
Earth and we haven't been back to the
moon in 1951 or 1969 and you start and
it becomes like conspiracy he later
again floated the notion not the
question of whether earth is round is up
for debate saying he didn't know whether
pictures of Earth from space were real
fuckin Tila Tequila believes the world
is flat so that should be a clue one
flat earther mad Mike Hughes and its
plans to launch himself 1,800 feet above
the Mojave Desert in a steam-powered
rocket he made out of salvaged parts
there's one point eight million dollars
name we will prove if the earth is flat
round shaped like a frisbee or
we don't live with him if it's all
illusionary yeah and what is your uh
what do you what do you think that looks
like it's probably a frisbee we turned
up badges Auguste Piccard a very
brilliant man went up in his own spear
1931 which is documented he took off
from Soldier Field in Chicago and they
actually thought he was lost in space he
came down I think a day late or
something like that and he got down he
said you know it kind of looks
he went up ten miles he said it kind of
looks flat we turned up badges so what
and this is a hard thing for most people
get their arms around it was for me
initially also but you know you got to
realize most things that we are taught
and told in our lifetime is not true ok
it's been altered fabricated it didn't
ever exist or they had an agenda and
then small most everything I don't care
what school system these wars everything
else so basically what's happened is
what I discovered what I researched for
four to five maybe six months and I
could not dismiss it that the world I
believe is honestly flat his plan was to
attempt to photograph the lack of
curvature of the horizon to prove the
Earth's flatness now the curvature of
the horizon is so subtle it's not even
visible until at least 35,000 feet so I
don't know what Hughes would have proved
at 1,800 feet nevertheless his homemade
rocket costs a reported 20,000 dollars
unfortunately his launch didn't take
place because the Bureau of Land
Management should him down at the last
minute even Elon Musk tweeted why is
there no flat Mars society I know right
he did get a response straight from the
Flat Earth Society itself ie lon thanks
for the question unlike the earth
Mars has been observed to be round we
hope you have a fantastic day
so Mars gets to be round but we don't
that's some bullshit right there
now I know some people are probably
saying Mike don't make fun of these
people just because they believe this
well no and if you believe that you're
wrong too
this is the kind of belief that needs to
be ridiculed and it needs to stop
society is going back into the dark ages
we're at this weird point where signs on
bullshit are treated equally people are
having uninformed stupid opinions and
claiming well that's just what I believe
well that's just what you believe then
that's perfectly fine just don't
proclaim it as being equally valid as
scientific fact the entire just because
you're right doesn't mean I'm wrong
thing no it does mean you're wrong if
you look around you can see science is
being beaten down on all sides by I shit
like fake news I hate to turn fake news
by the way when people say fake news
what they really mean is lies
they just know when I get sued for libel
the people who don't believe in global
warming and vaccinations that's far more
important than renders flat earth
because vaccinations and global warming
will actually to death and destruction
of us and our environments and if you
don't believe in vaccinations or global
warming you're just as stupid as fodder
Thurs and in the future I'm sure we're
gonna see more of this stupid bullshit
crop up like flat earth stuff because of
internet that people are getting
stupider if you want a good laugh go on
to fortunes export you'll probably see
lots of crazy conspiracy theories
they're hilarious ones that I will know
that cover in a future video
to conclude yes we should ridicule these
theories because they're ridiculous
they're stupid they should not be
entertained or given a platform because
next thing you know we're stuffing
herv's in our gas masks to combat
diseases that should have been
vaccinated in our extremely hot
extremely dead planet my god
