'Would it be bad if we dumped what we found right now? It would not be good. When you have $20,000 invested in this freaking gyro.' 'We don't want to mess this up, you understand? Then Knodel addresses a different Flat Earther. You are aware of the adage, If your experiment disproves your hypothesis, ignore the findings.' We started looking for simple ways to show that it was actually registering the motion of the Earth because we were obviously unwilling to accept that. 'Now, naturally, we were surprised by that and thought, 'Wow, that's kind of a problem.' 'What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift,' says Knodel.

He runs a YouTube channel solely devoted to the idea and is a member of the group using a $20,000 (or Rs 16 lakh) laser gyroscope to demonstrate the earth doesn't rotate. The scene is from the new Netflix documentary Behind the Curve, which follows a group of Flat Earthers who 'firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat,' according to the documentary's description.īob Knodel is one of those proponents of the flat-earth theory. Flat Earthers Accidentally Prove The Earth Is Roundįlat Earthers Accidentally Prove The Earth Is RoundĪ group of conspiracy theorists has unintentionally spent thousands of dollars to prove that the earth is round, which may be among the most satisfying TV moments we've ever seen.

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