...and I'm not going to say it is wrong. But it's wrong.
I come across these crackpot theories all the time. So why not create a special section where I can pick a conspiracy theory or just some crazy idea doing the rounds and write about it? It should give me enough fodder for a few months (or years). There really are some crazy people out there!
So today in my new topic I like to call, "Say What????", I present to you the Flat Earth Theory.
No, you have not time traveled back to the Dark Ages. There are actually people alive today that completely believe that the Earth is not a big round sphere floating in space, but actually a flat disc. There's even an organisation for this called The Flat Earth Society. And the support for this Theory is bigger than you might think.
Boston Celtics star player Kyrie Irving is probably the best known proponent of this theory. He has even convinced New York Giants quarterback Geno Smith that he might be on to something. So we have celebrities believing and supporting this idea. And they have the money to fund the "research" that is being done to prove their theory. I just wonder how many young minds they are converting to their cause, purely due to their celebrity status.
In round about January of this year (2018) I heard about a Flat-Earther called Mike Hughes who was building a steam powered rocket-ship that he would then board and ride up into the atmosphere to definitively prove with pictures that the Earth is indeed flat. The whole project was being crowd-funded through Kickstarter with our friend Kyrie Irving the main contributor.
Guess nobody convinced to just strap a camera to a high-altitude balloon. This however shows just how paranoid these people are. They believe they are being lied to (though I can't think of any reason why the Government would lie about this), and believe that if they don't see it with their own eyes, that the Government / Illuminati / Free Masons / AnyOtherSecretOrganisation will somehow alter the evidence.
The most recent attempt by Hughes was on 3 February 2018. And surprise, surprise it was a failure. He did say that he might try again in the next few days but that he had to be in court as he was suing a number of Californian officials, including the governor, Jerry Brown. You know, cause they are obviously hampering his pursuit of the truth.
I decided to end this post with an awesome video clips. The first is by Giles Academy students in Old Leake, England. They launched their own balloon with a iPhone strapped to it. The video clip shows the footage captured by the iPhone camera.
And if you think they are unique in their experiment, then you are mistaken. Here's a video from a Father and his 7-year Son team who also sent an iPhone up using a balloon, launched from Newburg, New York back in 2010.
Have a look Mike. There are better things to use that money for than to build a rocket....
