How does one of the most famous globe deniers in the FE community know my name and face? Let's back up a bit. "Your articles sounds as stupid as you look!! Just another brainwashed globetard!!! Get an education globetard!!" – a non-fan tweet this This would be the bar I'd have to limbo under for the next two days. I put on a friendly face and say, "Actually, it was more of a sledgehammer." I would say, 'Well, they’re crazy for not testing what they think they believe.Danny Gallagher "That's Danny Gallagher," Weiss says. “I could tell you something, and then you just look at me like I'm crazy. It's something Sargent and Skiba both think is invaluable to learning more about this theory.
launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for research to “try every available experiment and test including but not limited to weather balloons, drones, blimps even." are looking for new forms of exploration for the conspiracy theory. "It’s so simple it'll go right over your head," he said adding that people who have flown planes allegedly told him they "haven’t seen any curvature."Įven celebrities like "Nothing on You" rapper B.o.B. "If it were a sphere then the surface of the Earth still would have been curving underneath the airplane while it's flying level," he reasoned. Many flat-Earthers believe in testing the theory.ĭarryle Marble said he conducted his own in-flight experiment using a leveler to test if the plane was flying parallel to a flat Earth. "This might be a little higher on the spectrum, but I think there's a little bit of conspiracy theorists in all of us. And I think rightfully so."įellow skeptic and conference organizer Robbie Davidson said he thinks many of the flat-Earthers share a common trait, conspiracy. Skiba said, "I have become skeptical of everything. When you break down the text of what it represents, there's no way you can get a spinning heliocentric globe out of anything in the Bible," he said. In his YouTube videos and podcasts, Skiba looks at clues from the Bible in the book of Genesis. "To me, that would be the ultimate motivation," he added. "The bigger picture many of us have come to believe is hiding God," Skiba said. Skiba believes the conspiracy is rooted in deeper religious implications. "Oh, the rockets go up, sure, there's nobody in them." "No astronaut has ever been and this is going to sound wild when I say this, no astronaut has ever been on a top of a pile of liquid explosives launched off in space," Sargent purported.
Many flat-Earthers, including Sargent, believe that astronauts are actually actors who are part of a larger conspiracy. I felt like I was I was looking into heaven," he continued.
" my eyewitness account and I looked at it as much as I could. The former NASA astronaut added that in his own experience looking at the planet from space, Earth looks round. "And at that point you're sort of saying, 'Wait a minute.'"īut Mike Massimino, senior adviser for space programs at the Intrepid Museum in New York City, told ABC News the topic is not up for debate. "As soon as you start looking into the pictures of the globe, you start seeing words like 'composite' or 'animation' or you know something that tells you this is not an actual photograph of the earth," Skiba said. "Absolutely sound."įlat-Earthers denounce traditional and iconic "blue marble" images taken from space as fake, including Rob Skiba. But the basic concept is sound," he said. "I mean there are some details to be worked out, sure. Sargent told ABC News he is "pretty sure" that’s what the flat Earth looks like.
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