A group of popular Flat Earth YouTubers have conceded defeat against “globbers” after traveling to Antarctica to witness the 24-hour sun.
Colorado pastor Will Duffy organized the much-anticipated December 14 trip, dubbed “The Final Experiment”, which brought together four “Flat Earthers” and four “Globe Earthers” in an attempt to settle the debate once and for all. .
Flat Earth people have long said that Antarctica holds the key to proving that the Earth is flat.
In summer, the sun does not set over much of the continent due to the Earth’s tilt. In the flat Earth view of the world, Antarctica is actually an ice wall that surrounds other continents and is engulfed by oceans. If that view were correct, then even in Antarctica the Sun must rise and set every day, and could never circle the sky for a full 24 hours.
“Okay, guys, sometimes you’re wrong in life,” Jaron Campanella of the YouTube channel Jaronism told viewers on a midnight livestream from Union Glacier Camp, four and a half hours south of Punta Arenas, Chile.
“And I thought there wouldn’t be 24 hours of sun, in fact I was pretty sure of it.”
Pastor Duffy said that Geranism was “one of the most popular Flat Earth YouTube channels”, but Campanella quipped, “not for long”.
“It’s a fact – the sun circles you in the south,” he said.
“What does that mean? You guys have to figure it out for yourself. Don’t listen to my beliefs or my opinions, it shouldn’t make any difference to you. But at least you should be able to accept that the Sun does exactly that is what these people said [it] revolves around the southern continent. I realize that just saying this would make me sound stupid, and you know, if you’re stupid for being honest, that’s what it would be like. I honestly believed there was no 24 hour sun, I honestly believe now that there is.”
The trip had been in the works for three years when Pastor Duffy first learned on Facebook that some people still believe the Earth is flat.
No Flat Earthers had ever been to Antarctica – a popular conspiracy theory was that the 1959 Antarctic Treaty specifically prevented them from going in the summer, so that they would not find out the truth.
To “end this debate once and for all” so that “no one has to waste any more time debating the shape of the Earth”, Pastor Duffy paid $35,000 per person for the trip with Antarctic Logistics. Made arrangements for all the expenses to be incurred. Campaign.
Austin Whitsitt of Whitsitt Gets It admitted to the audience that “we were wrong” about the 24-hour sun, but said he was still open to the Earth being flat.
“I was one of those people who said I certainly didn’t think there was a 24-hour sun,” he said.
“We obviously haven’t seen the Sun for the last 24 hours, but it’s doing exactly what they said, very clearly. It is still dancing in the high sky. So obviously we’re documenting it. But I said what I felt about it the whole time, not being afraid of the truth. I think we’re really trying to find out the truth. Obviously some people think what we’re told is true, I don’t think so but I think people need to be honest and humble and be like, wow, you know, we were wrong when we Claimed there was no such thing as 24 hour sun.
Whitsitt said there may be a way to combine a 24-hour Sun with a flat Earth and that he has “seen a physical demonstration that it could work”.
“But I think some of the data we get from this trip may help clarify what’s really going on,” he said.
“We never explicitly claimed that people can’t go here, we just say that you can’t explore it freely and privately. Obviously we knew you could go to approved places. The purpose of this trip is to see if the sun lasts 24 hours. It’s obviously… I don’t think it disproves a flat Earth, I don’t think it disproves a globe, I think it’s a single data point.”
Lisbeth Acosta of the Flatearth Gang said that what is most important is to “put our egos aside”.
“I’ve seen a lot of vitriol, a lot of clashes on both sides and it’s just like, are we here for the truth or are we here to hold on to a narrative and egos?” He said.
“This doesn’t mean that the 24-hour sun proves to be a globe model, there are still some things that are definitely in question… but we are working together here and I think the most The important part is just this human experience.”
