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hi i'm dr laura danley i'm an astronomer
i worked for the nasa hubble space
telescope project for 10 years and for
the last 14 years i've been the curator
of griffith observatory in los angeles
california
i don't actually know anyone who
actually believes in the flat earth
theory but i've seen
statistics that say that some
substantial fraction like 20
30 i've even seen something as high as
50
which i just have to not believe because
it's too depressing but
once you take a look at it you come see
that it just doesn't hold up all right
here it goes
since the victorian age humanity has
given
in to the illusion that there is a
natural world
which can be measured and understood
that there's a natural world that can be
understood is an illusion i'm sorry
first sentence forget about it
one question nobody seemed to pose and
no one
ever again seemed to doubt was the shape
of our world
i think that question's been posed
pretty much since the beginning of uh
of human thought as turns out
we have been asking the wrong questions
all along questions
well first of all let me start with the
fact that you could never get that view
let alone the fact that the earth is the
wrong shape there is no way you could
ever get such a view where the
sun is smaller than the earth the sun is
over 100 times the diameter of the earth
you could fit a million earths inside
the sun
not to mention the fact that it's so hot
uh you couldn't have it so close by we'd
all be fried the moon is inside the
earth's atmosphere
holy crap what's hanging from the bottom
of the earth they look like stalagtites
or stalagmites whichever one that is
the outer edge of the world we find the
antarctic ice
water edge of the world i don't think so
it's on the south pole the wall was
first discovered in 1841 by the british
explorer
james clark ross when he circumnavigated
the edge of the known earth he
circumnavigated antarctica the ice wall
is
along most of its length 150 meters high
and by the description of ross an
impenetrable shield of ice okay so ross
did say that it was an impenetrable
shield of ice but that's because he was
in a ship
just meant the ship couldn't sail in
some predict that there is a rim
others theorize that the world stretches
indefinitely i have a pet peeve about
the word theorized it makes it sound
like well it's just a theory like i
could be making up anything
gravity is a theory these are things
that have been tested
so many times and it undercuts the
seriousness and the meaning
of all the work that goes behind
actually trying to
understand something as basic as why do
things fall when you drop them the
terran plane
is not finite and that beyond the ice
wall
other lands exist the most popular of
these theories
is the summer gate summer gate theory
sounds very spooky ice wall
just near new zealand melts during the
summer and leaves passage
open to another ring of continents these
continents
are lit by another soul oh wait a second
there's another sun
and except being called saul it's called
ball some
theorize that the mythical places of
atlantis and hyperborea
or many of the other lost continents of
history are just behind
the arctic ice wall i feel quite certain
that we would have heard from someone in
new zealand if there were a secret
summer gay to
realms unknown with a whole other sun
how come we haven't seen pictures of
this
what the victim supposed to explain what
we see in the sky but it absolutely
doesn't for starters
if that disc is flat the sun is
illuminating it everywhere on the disk
so even if it's all the way on the far
side of the disk you still see the sun
so the sun would never set the other
thing that's a problem with this is that
how you get a lunar eclipse the sun and
moon are on opposite sides of the earth
and in this model
the sun and moon are always on the same
side of the
the i don't even know the non-stalag
tight side of the earth
cover-up uh-oh the fake space program
oh already fake space program has been
propagated during the 20th century
nasa doesn't hide the true shape of the
earth
during their early fakes they showed
pictures of the spheroid earth
and are now stuck with it they had bad
idea for their fakes early on by making
it a globe and now they're stuck with it
sums of money that are invested by
governments and corporations in supposed
space programs
are used to a large extent to pay off
the officials and many people who know
about the true shape of the earth as
well as so-called
educators on tv hey wait now that's
getting personal
so all of that money didn't go to
building rockets it went to paying off
people
that's a real accusation in the 1950s
during the cold war
the two opposing blocks of the
totalitarian ussr
and the free world under the leadership
of the united states
started the competition of the supposed
space race why space and its supposed
conquest was so important
was explained by senate majority leader
and later president
lyndon b johnson quote control of space
means control of the world that was part
of the uh
cold war and the space race for sure the
soviets meanwhile resorted to their
first hoaxes with a supposed sputnik
satellite
this was in reality just a radio
transmission that was broadcasted by a
high altitude aircraft
as previously uncovered documents at the
end of the ussr in 1990 show
my parents saw it so i guess maybe
they're part of the conspiracy too
you can see it at night go over and you
can then see it come back
90 minutes later so people tracked it no
airplane even today can fly that fast
there is no flat earth conspiracy but a
fake space flight cabal
that uses the illusion of space travel
to make trillions worldwide
the moon is a revolving sphere it has a
diameter of 32 miles and is located
approximately 3 000
miles above the surface of the earth the
moon is
thought to be spherical okay the moon is
spherical but the earth is not
it moves from 3 000 miles to 2000 miles
over the duration of a month
that's crazy because if i were 300 feet
away from you and then i was
200 feet away from you i would look
larger
we would actually see it grow and shrink
in 1969 the moon was the setting of a
fictional worldwide television broadcast
which the united states of america
claimed to have landed on the moon the
hoax was discovered by
independent researchers but many of them
have since been silenced by nasa
agents or pressured into publicly
stating that they were wrong
okay i worked for nasa for 10 years i
can tell you no one has ever pressured
anybody to
lie about something as fundamental as
that i do remember when
during the bush administration we had to
remove the words big bang out of press
releases coming from hubble that was a
different thing a lot of people gave
their lives spent their lives
making this dream come true for the
united states on behalf of all humankind
so
it's such a deep insult to say that
everyone is part of a
fake false space program
the sun is a revolving sphere it has
also only 32
is miles hot do they have a temperature
the sun's area of light is similar to
the spotlight of a searchlight
searchlight this means that only certain
portions of the earth
are illuminated at a time but as it
moves around i mean it would look like a
circle overhead but as it moved over
there
it would start to look like an oval i
mean you can frankly take a plate
and change how it looks the apparent
view of rising and setting
are caused by perspective just as a
flock of birds overhead will descend
into the horizon as they fly
into the distance still doesn't explain
why we see the sun drop below the
horizon
we don't just watch the sun get smaller
smaller smaller in fact quite the
opposite at sunset it's
again because of the atmosphere kind of
smushed out and when it disappears it
gets dark
together with the moon the sun rotates
around a mysterious central point of
rotation so what is that point and why
i mean what is there a physical model or
is there are there laws of physics to
explain this
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i guess it's kind of fun because the
graphics are cool and you can shift
things around and
look at them but my more serious self
thinks that's not fun at all because
it has a real downside in that it makes
people believe that anything could be
true
not to be a killjoy but this kind of
thing can lead to people thinking well
i don't need to get vaccinated you know
getting vaccinated will save lives it
could be your own life
i want to be really clear that i i have
no objection to alternative theories
theory again is something that's been
tested and tested and tested that's how
we make progress is by challenging
conventional ideas with new ideas and
then
looking for which is the stronger idea
you know we're at a kind of rough time
historically where it's never been truer
that anybody can say anything and
everybody's got a platform
and so how do you discriminate between
what's true and
what's just some guy's idea or gal's
idea and at the same time it's kind of
stakes have never been higher for our
health for our democracy for
everything it may look great it may
sound convincing with the british accent
but you have to really
look at what they're saying and ask
yourself if it's true and
the predictions that this flat earth
model has
does not match what we see in the sky
it's
just that simple i mean i gotta say i
really did enjoy sitting here going what
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