PS: If you're in India, the documentary is leaving Netflix on Valentine's Day.However, a 36-year-old software engineer called Jeff went for something much simpler. For more in the world of technology and science, keep reading. Let us know what you think in the comments below. Instead, he proved that it exists.Īlso read: Earth's Insides Are Cooling Faster Than Previously Thought And It's Not GoodĮarth is round, and for good reason - when cosmic processes (read explosions and deadly collisions) take place, gravity pulls in the remnants into a ball shaped entity. Sargeant hoped to disprove the existence of curvature. What effectively happened is that the flat-earther simply proved that the Earth is actually round.Īs explained in the documentary, flat-earther-in-charge Mark K. The conspiracy theorist lets out an 'interesting' - throwing all sorts of random theories after the experiment backfired. Once it is lifted higher, the light shines through the holes in the fence. shine the light at the same level as the camera, there is no light to be seen.

But if the light shines even when the torch is held at a higher angle, then the Earth is round (which it is!).Īlso read: NASA: 2021 Was Sixth Hottest Year On Record, But We Can Still Save Earth And Us Their basic rationale is that if light is visible when the camera, holes in the fence, and the torch are at the same height above the ground, then the Earth is flat. The person on the other side had to shine a torch back at the camera. In the film (which was released in 2019 but is now getting attention again), one flat-earther sets up an experiment intended to use a camera to film through two holes.

In a victory for common sense and elementary science, the flat-earther's experiment was shown on the epic Netflix documentary called Behind The Curve. IStock A self-fail for flat-earth society A flat-earther recently set out to prove that the Earth is flat, but ended up doing the opposite. First things first - the Earth is round! If you're a flat-earther, you may not enjoy what's to follow.

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