The Experiment

I´m not a big fanboy (or fan-alien) of Professor Dave, but this video is actually interesting - and funny. Yes, it´s the Flat Earth again! 

Apparently, a Christian pastor in California named Will Duffy offered to organize an expedition to Antarctica to empirically test one of the Flat Earth models predictions: that there is no "midnight sun" there. Incidentally, such a journey would also disprove the conspiracy theory that nobody can travel to Antarctica in the first place. The whole project is known as The Final Experiment. All participants would get their expenses paid by Duffy.  

As far as I understand, only two flat earthers have been willing to accept the offer. Both seems to have been disavowed by the broader Flat Earth community. All other true believers contacted so far have turned down Duffy with various excuses. One common strategy is to simply change the goalposts and claim that, actually, there could be a midnight sun in the Antarctica even under a Flat Earth scenario. Funny they came up with that *now*, not earlier. A more extreme proposal is that NASA will stage a fake midnight sun with advanced technology, or that Duffy will stealthily take everyone to Greenland instead! Dude.

In passing, Dave mentions podcaster Tim Pool and Christian fundamentalist preacher Greg Locke (without naming him) who also offered Flat Earthers money for a trip to Antarctica, only to be turned down.

I looked into the Flat Earth phenomenon about ten years ago. I had very mixed feelings about it. Part of me thought it could be a psy-op staged by all the usual suspects. Read: MK Ultra. Another part of me felt that at least some actors in the milieu were genuine spiritual seekers, although very misguided ones! For one instance, see my review of "The Flat Earth Survival Guide" by Winston S. However, I have to say that the bunch featured in this video come across more like the usual kooks-cum-conmen.

If the expedition goes ahead, it might actually become the topic of an interesting documentary. If it convinces the Flat Earth crowd marooned at home, is another matter entirely...