It’s
the age-old question – well, more of just an old question, because anyone with
a basic belief in science and/or has been on a plane knows otherwise, but – ‘Is
the Earth flat?’ still buzzes on in the minds of sceptics across the (FLAT!)
world. However, despite recent logic deficient arguments, one picture might
have just put all the theories to bed once and for all.
In
a Reddit post simply captioned: ‘Checkmate flat Earth
society’ user amazed_spirit shared an image of him or someone they know posing
for a selfie atop Mount Everest with the – you guessed it – curved edge of the
planet in the backdrop.
Everest,
in case you skived every day of school, is the highest mountain above sea
level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas on the border
between China and Nepal. Its elevation rises to 8,848 metres, or 29,029 ft. Many
Reddit users came out in support of the concrete evidence, with one saying:
Forget
about dumb curvature arguments. The fact that you can only see 2.5% at a time
proves it isn’t flat. If it was flat you should be able to see the whole thing
from even just the top of the tallest mountain or on any commercial flat.
Though
one user brought into question whether the photographer was using a fisheye
lens and thus distorting the image. There was no appearance from ardent
flat-earther Connor Murphy who recently disclosed why we don’t fall off the
edge of the planet.
Connor,
son of famous flat-earther Dave Murphy, spoke exclusively to UNILAD about NASA, the Sun, Photoshop and
pretty much everything you’ve ever wanted to ask someone who thinks the reason
you see the curvature of Earth from a plane is because the windows are round. Speaking
about why NASA and the government would lie about space travel, he said:
There are two good reasons in my opinion. One obvious reason would be money. The money raised by NASA alone since their inception is something like fifteen trillion dollars, and with that money they’ve really shown little for their work.
They’re releasing composite images and articles and telling you this is what’s happening, this is what we’re doing, and we spent seven hundred million dollars to get this photo of Pluto that we had to put together in Photoshop.
A second thing is to make people feel insignificant. It makes you feel like you’re an insignificant speck of dust and therefore you’re easy to control. Basically if you can imagine the globe squashed down with Antarctica instead of being its own continent, being the perimeter around the side. So a lot of people say that’s an ice wall. It’s more like a shelf or cliff.
And
as for why we don’t fall of the edge of the world, he added:
Fall off into what, do you know what I’m saying? The way we see it is it’s an enclosed system.
There’s water above, there’s the firmament – or the dome – and there’s water above it and water below it and there’s no leaving it, there’s no finding other Suns and stuff. You can’t fall off the edge, essentially.
What
about the curve of the Earth you can see when you fly? Conor said:
You cannot see curvature from a plane. The reason why it may seem is because of the way planes have to be designed. Every single window on a plane has to be round and curved because the cabin itself is curved.
You can’t have straight panes or they would explode and everyone with the plane would be done. Next time you’re on a plane, look out the window and at the wing, because the wing will seem to curve as well.
Connor
believes the only reason a lot of people find Flat Earth conspiracies a
complete joke is because we’re taught to do so from a very early age. He didn’t
personally always believe the Earth was flat, but as he got older and delved
into it he found there to be too many ‘inconsistencies with the model you’re
taught at school’, he couldn’t ignore them anymore.
‘At
one point,’ he finishes, ‘you have to make a decision on where you lie on it
and I had to pick the Flat Earth.’
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