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