i have a way to once and for all prove
whether the earth is flat
or not i'll explain it all
coming up
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hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't
know me my name's kelsey i'm a 747 pilot
my channel 74 gear is all about aviation
i get asked almost on a daily basis in
the comment section here on youtube or
on my instagram something along the
lines of this
is the earth flat tell me the truth why
are you lying about the earth being flat
or not
and it's surprising to me because i've
watched some videos about people who
believe the earth is flat
i i have some time sometimes on these
15-hour flights during my rest period i
watch a lot of stuff on youtube or
netflix
anyway i watch a lot of that stuff and i
found it interesting to find out that
there were some famous and very wealthy
people who believe
that the earth was flat at one time shaq
as you guys all know thought that the
earth was flat and then he said it was a
joke
i don't know kyrie irving apparently is
somebody that believes that the earth is
flat
i don't know if it's an nba thing either
way i get asked about it all the time
and i thought you know what
let's talk about this the flat earth
army or the people who believe that the
earth is flat believe that
this is what the earth looks like this
is the map that they use i've been shown
it by several different people
and this is what it shows in the
documentaries as what the earth looks
like
in these documentaries that i watched
i've seen several different strategies
from them to try to prove
how and why the earth is flat and with
lasers and all kinds of different things
nothing that really made a lot of sense
to me or no one like
neil degrasse tyson talking explaining
how it's possible i haven't really
seen anything but i have a much simpler
option
now i've met people that believe the
earth is flat i was at somebody's house
once and this guy was hanging out
and the girl goes hey by the way uh this
guy believes the earth is flat and then
just
walked off and i thought well this is
going to be an interesting conversation
and i'm always interested to hear
somebody and i don't want to invalidate
their opinion but i'm always interested
to hear
why they think something is a certain
way so i asked them a lot of different
questions
now the main thing that he wanted to
show me was
and he was interested because i was a
pilot but he wanted to show me that
look on these flightaware or these apps
where you track flights
you can see that it's curved here you
guys are flying in a curb
but on my earth where it's all flat
you're actually going in a straight line
and everybody knows the shortest
distance between two points
is a flat line now of course i asked
some things like how is it the north
pole
goes for weeks without having sun and
you didn't really have an
explanation for that he did pull up some
videos that looked like
some dude in his basement making some
videos but i mean i'm a pilot and i make
videos in hotel rooms so i mean
i can't really judge i have a way to all
the flat earthers out there to
prove once and for all whether that your
map is right or it is completely wrong
and i've seen you do a lot of different
tests and you guys have spent a lot of
money
and this will probably be cheaper once
you average it all out
you'll notice here on their map
antarctica is kind of like a border
now this flat earth guy that i talked to
what he told me was
antarctica is just a very very high wall
and he also mentioned me that planes
have
never flown over antarctica which is
not true but he essentially said it's
just a very very high wall
that is basically where the end of the
earth is and it's a conspiracy between
the governments
around the world and a few other people
to make us believe that the earth is
round
so much makes sense to me now now i was
surprised when i saw some of these flat
earth conventions that they have
there are hundreds of people there and
there's some seem like some pretty
wealthy and intelligent people
and i'm always happy to be proven wrong
and i'm the type of guy that i like to
be proven something before i believe it
so i'm going to give you all an option
to prove whether your earth is
exactly like you describe it or not very
simple
before i explain to you how this theory
can be verified or not
i want to explain two things about
aviation one
pilots take safety very very seriously
there is something on our aircraft
that will alert us if we were going to
hit a mountain it's a ground
proximity warning system which means if
we're in a plane and we're flying
towards a mountain or a wall or
something like that
that's going to cause us to crash our
system will tell us
hey you're about to hit something now
there's a radar there as well that we
can use for weather tracking
and so if that radar is hitting a
mountain it's going to be red it's going
to tell us
don't fly into that the reason i say
that is because flat earthers believe
that the perimeter of the earth
is antarctica and it's one huge massive
wall
i haven't spent all these years working
on this amazing
body to fly into a wall in antarctica
here's the plan at my airline we have
mostly cargo aircraft but we have
several 747s
that are in a passenger configuration we
have some that are more into a first
class passenger configuration meaning
there's a lot more first class seats
and we have some that are just in a more
coach configuration meaning you can fit
a lot more people in there
i put some stories up there on my
instagram but usually when we're
transporting people
it's usually the military or vip so i'm
not allowed to
show very much of what and who i'm
transporting but i thought
all right let's get a bunch of flat
earthers together that you get at your
conventions
you can sell some tickets hey you can
even make some profit on it it doesn't
really matter to me
but you can charter this aircraft and go
anywhere you want to go
if you choose my airline to charter the
747 from
i will volunteer to fly that aircraft
and we can all be christopher columbus
for a few days
i've even come up with a basic flight
plan of where to go so you can prove
or disprove your theory we'll start off
here in miami
and we'll fly down to buenos aires
argentina obviously this will have to
happen when cobit is all done but that
gives you some time to plan and sell
tickets now we'll get down there
it's roughly like an eight or nine hour
flight just depending on weather and
things like that we'll get down there
and we could take a day or two of a
vacation down there in buenos aires it's
a pretty cool city i've been there a
bunch
and you can explore the city and then
we'll go from buenos aires
down to melbourne australia now as many
of the flat earth army people know
there are things like flightaware where
you can track a flight you'll have the
flight number the tail number and all
those types of things so
the people who aren't on the flight will
be able to track the flight and see
where it's going
so they'll be able to see it leaving
miami down to buenos aires and buenos
aires down to melbourne
they'll be able to track that flight in
real time and see everything
as well you're more than welcome to
bring a compass on board you can see the
direction that we're going once we take
off from miami
you'll see that we're headed south and
all of those things but i have more
options to help you prove your theory
first if we were to go from buenos aires
to go to melbourne based off of your map
we would have to fly all the way up back
through america
over part of canada some of asia and
then through the north part of australia
to get all the way down to the south
part
in the regular global world of australia
which is where
melbourne is that means it would be
about three times as long i'm just
guessing based off of looking at your
map about three times the amount of
flight time so
roughly 27 hours now i know some of you
are thinking
oh well the government could lie and
make it look like on the computer that
you're really going a different
direction as part of a big scam
and kelsey you look like you're maybe
part of the government
but i swear i'm not so here's what i
would do if i were you to help further
prove your point of the direction of
flight that we're going
have some of your people that are in
argentina have them go
and see the direction that the plane
goes once we take off
they can be there on the ground and of
course i advise that we fly during the
day
and that is to a help prove your point
and b because i hate waking up in the
middle of the night to go
to work so if we take off in the daytime
you can have some people there in buenos
aires see the direction the flight we go
they can get some telescopes they can
watch the plane
take off going south you guys will have
your compasses you can see the direction
that we're going
and if you put some people down further
down on the bottom towards patagonia
they're in argentina then you can have
some people there see the direction that
the plane is going
and they'd be able to detract that we
are indeed headed south
now the only people even further south
like antarctica are probably going to be
scientists
and i'm guessing none of them believe
the earth is flat so they're probably
not going to want to help you
but that's okay because what you can
also do is put some people on the north
side
of australia to see where we come from
so if you have people that are very far
north of melbourne
you can have them track and look up the
sky and see if a plane is coming that
way
as well as some people that are in
melbourne or south there in australia
to look to see the direction of flight
of where we're coming from
so you will have the compasses for the
people on the plane you'll have some
people on the ground seeing the
direction of flight you're going
and you can see where we take off in
argentina we would have to fly
all the way over the top to the other
end of the earth which would be
way outside the flight range of 747
but as i'm planning it we're going to go
off the side of antarctica
down and around the other side and we'll
end up in melbourne
now i have met some flight attendants
who think the earth is flat
which is a little surprising to me but
okay and apparently there's a pilot or
two
and i've never met them that believe the
earth is flat no pilot has ever told me
that but i've talked to some people
who've met some pilots that said
they believe that the earth is flat so
all of you are welcome to come
not fly the plane but you're welcome to
come as a passenger once we get into
melbourne australia
i suggest we have a couple days there
it's a really cool city
i have some few friends that are aussies
that are out there happy to go have some
beers with them
and then we'll go from melbourne out to
la now that will also look slightly
curved
on the earth and on your earth it will
maybe appear like a straight line i
haven't seen how it lays out on your
earth
but either way we can finish a trip in
los angeles and then
everybody can go home from there so the
next big flat earth convention
i suggest someone like mark sargent who
is one of the original flat earth people
present this as an option to prove or
disprove that at least that the map that
they have is
not accurate or there is something wrong
with the overall theory
because they'll be able to again be on
the plane with a compass
people on the ground verifying the
direction of flight and then see them
come out the other side there in
australia and land in melbourne
and not 24 to 27 hours for those of you
who are wondering in our flat earthers
and are wondering the exact flight time
of what it would be
on your earth we generally cruise our
aircraft at around
eight four maybe eight five that's mock
decimal eight four or eight five
and the fastest we can go at all is
point
nine two so that's the fastest the plane
can go and that's not even at the
altitudes that you're going to want to
fly at
but that's the fastest the plane can go
so it's not a supersonic aircraft it
does not go any faster than that
so there with those numbers you can plan
off of whatever the nautical mile
distance is off of your earth
you can see how long that flight would
be and then you'll see how long it is
when you're
on our aircraft flying over there please
post this on any flat earth page i would
love to have you guys on the aircraft
we have a nice locked door that you'll
have to stay behind i wanna
fly the plane a lot of times i've talked
about
when people are boarding i usually stand
on the stairs to go up into the upper
deck
i usually stand there and say hi to
people whether it's vip people or
military people i usually stand there
i don't know i just like to see who's
coming on board the aircraft so if you
end up charting with us and my airline
lets me fly that aircraft then you'll
see me
and we'll do the whole trip together if
you want to see something as fictional
as an earth being flat
you're going to want to check out this
movie that hollywood put out right here
and if you want to see some actual
footage of planes taking off and having
problems and me explaining it
you're going to want to check out this
series up here
i look forward to hearing from you until
then
keep the blue side up