Flat Earther gets exclusive access to NASA launchpads and his reaction left the host stunned
Flat Earthers are often some of the hardest people to negotiate beliefs with, yet one space expert on YouTube attempted to change a conspiracy enthusiast's mind by taking him around NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
It's commonly the case where Flat Earthers don't just believe that our planet isn't round, but also subscribe to a number of other wild theories relating to the wider universe, including that NASA never landed on the Moon and even that space itself might not even exist.
That appears to be the case with prominent conspiracy head Justin Harvey, 30, who caught the attention of Jack Gordon on YouTube for his unorthodox beliefs, including the idea that the bones of dinosaurs belong instead to dragons and giants.
Gordon made sure to start of the video with a message that declares everything Justin says in the video to be false – as the Earth is indeed round – but his task was to convince the Flat Earther of this fact, which was likely to prove difficult considering his stubbornness.
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In order to do so he took Justin around the Kennedy Space Center, showing him a number of iconic space exhibits, which includes the spacecraft that took astronauts to the Moon, and even took him close to the launchpads that operate all the time.
What does the Flat Earther claim?
While there's frankly too many claims littered throughout the 13-minute-long video to tally, key to Justin's beliefs are the notion that the Earth is completely flat and that NASA are perpetuating the 'false' belief that it's round by conducting fake space launches.
He claims that nobody can really know where rockets 'go' after they launch from the Kennedy Space Center and other key locations across the world, and that NASA often disposes of them in the Bermuda Triangle to hide the truth from the public.
As for the astronauts, they're never actually on the flights themselves and are viewed inside hidden filming centers with green screens and elaborately-painted backgrounds designed to mimic the darkness of space — and anyone who claims to have been in space or low-gravity environments is either lying or has been decieved.
"I think if the people were in [a spacecraft] they were in on it, unfortunately," Justin boldly claimed when pressed by Jack. "You know, it's really landing, it's really taking off, it's really breaking the sound barrier, but I just don't think it's going to space."
Justin also suggests that Antarctica is at the edges of our so-called 'flat' Earth, and that attempting to travel any further than these limits to see what lies beyond them will leave you stopped by the military.
Did the trip around the Kennedy Space Center change his mind?
Unfortunately the experience of seeing space history in front of him wasn't enough to change Justin's mind, but that was unlikely from the very beginning as he noted that it would take a lot to break him from his beliefs.
He likened the Kennedy Space Center to a 'theme park' for those who want to believe in the myth of space and a round Earth, but did show signs of relenting slightly when presented with a select few experiences.
Seeing information about Jared Isaacman, current NASA Administrator and the first civilian to conduct a space walk, did seem to sway him slightly as he views Isaacman as a 'good guy', but he still doesn't think he's telling the truth.
At the end though he did seem to enjoy his tour, admitting that "regardless if it's fake or not, or [if the] globe is round, it's still kind of cool to see all this stuff. They're really building rockets. There's really smart people working on these things."