A flat Earther made a shocking claim about NASA's website to a scientist during a debate on YouTube.
One of the first things we're taught in science class is that the Earth is round. It's pretty basic stuff that the Earth and the rest of the solar system revolve around the Sun, while this is just a tiny part of the larger cosmos. For anyone doubting the fact that the Earth is round, it just so happens that astronauts have been up into space to prove it from afar. But that's still not enough for some, and just like they're convinced Stanley Kubrick directed a fake Moon landing, they're adamant it's all a ruse.
Flat Earthers walk among us, and while we're not here to bash anyone's beliefs, they're a breed of conspiracy theorist who are proved wrong time and time again.
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Whether it be holding their own experiments that prove the Earth is round, or being left red-faced by a simple analogy, the flat Earth theory is one that just doesn't fly with most of society.
That still won't stop them, and now, one woman claims she can prove the Earth is flat thanks to a tiny detail that's hidden on NASA's website. Well, if you think NASA hid Roswell from us, what else could it be hiding?
On the Jubilee YouTube channel, the video "Flat Earthers vs Scientists: Can We Trust Science?" brought together three people who believe the Earth is spherical and three who believe it's flat.
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According to 'Shelley', the Earth is flat and it can be proved thanks to NASA. When asked if NASA is 'trustworthy' the science side obviously agreed. For Shelley and the flat Earthers, she maintains you shouldn't trust what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is telling you.
With one of the scientists saying that NASA lying would involve thousands of workers all being complicit to the lie for decades, Shelley argued: "The private does not know what the general is doing. There's compartmentalization happening all the time, so it wouldn't be that far-fetched. Has the government ever lied to us is really the question at stake."
She continued about NASA.gov and the government's potential involvement, adding: "Now we have nasa.gov, 'Oh absolutely they're not lying about anything they're completely transparent everything is true.' We'd be foolish to think that's true."
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According to Shelley, the simple .gov part is enough to prove that the White House is involved and is hiding the truth about a 'flat' Earth.
Scientist Ali waded into the debate and quickly tried to shut her argument down: "This agency is scrutinized by thousands and thousands of scientists around the globe. You are dealing with smart people. So it is very hard to do that once or twice. Maybe, not for the whole time."
The debate then spiralled into whether the group thinks we went to the Moon, and despite hundreds of pounds of rocks and Moon dust, the flat Earthers unsurprisingly think that's also a con.
While we'll hand it to flat Earthers that they have conviction in what they believe, we think you're going to need more than '.gov' to prove that we've been lied to for decades. Nice try, though.