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An experiment that will shake every flat earth doctrine believer to their core
The Rogers Commission was tasked in 1986 to investigate the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Perhaps the most memorable part, and certainly the most entertaining of the hearings was when theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, in a simple and elegant manner, used a piece of rubber and a cup of ice water to show the cause of the disaster, in the failed O-rings.
I am certainly no Richard Feynman, but I’d like to propose an equally simple experiment that flat earth proponents can use to demonstrate the planet we live on is flat. This experiment can be done in a day and cost perhaps $200,000. That is undoubtedly a significant amount of money. However, if every flat-earther donated a dollar, it could be raised.
If successful, this experiment would show that NASA, along with a cabal of government agencies, airlines, and universities are operating a vast conspiracy. It would expose the most significant scientific fraud in the history of humankind and show the media-loving buffoons who proposed the theory of a flat earth, were indeed correct. All that for under a quarter of a million dollars.
My suggestion: mimic a flight over a flat earth as opposed to a great circle distance.
