Last week on November 9 and 10 , theFlat Earth International Conferencetook home in Raleigh , North Carolina . About 400 hoi polloi are think to have attended , vanish from around the world to take part . And , well , it looked just fantastic .
The conference included public lecture by various renowned savourless Earth conspiracy theorists , some fondly entitle with affair like “ NASA and other Space Lies ” and " wake Up to Mainstream Science Lies " . ticket to give ear ranged from $ 109 up to $ 249 .
Now , controversial opinion alarm , but while Earth is obviously not level , I do n’t of necessity bemoan these people for meeting up . Everyone likes to feel like they belong , good ?
In the BBC video below , for object lesson , one of the attendees just said he wanted to meet other comparable - apt people . I ’d rather they had a different hobby , truthful , but some mass finger alone , and just need others to talk to .
That being said , it would be nice if this prostrate Earth thing stayed kinda confined to small events like this . In recent time we ’ve hadbasketball playersandmusiciansspeak out in favor of it , which you know , is n’t corking . The outcome this year appears to have been a lot more popular than previous years .
And then you get to some of the videos from some of the lecture , which are just downright crazy . To highlight one , below is a Q&A ( nod toPatheosfor picking this up ) from the prominent mat - Earther and YouTuber Mark Sargent . It ’s weird .
If you do n’t want to watch the whole thing , here are some highlights . At 12 minutes in he answers a interrogation about sire the Flat Earth theory into schools .
“ I retrieve we ’re almost at the critical multitude point , ” Sargent suppose . “ scientific discipline is gon na have to deal this , plain and simple . They can not dodge us forever . ”
My favorite bit , though , is when he answers a doubt about Elon Musk ( no ! not Elon ) around 31:10 . The interrogative itself is great :
“ I was wondering , people like Elon Musk , who founded the SpaceX programme [ John Singer Sargent groans in disgust ] , when they give , if they actually do raise a rocket capable of reaching the dome so to speak … are they going to strickle it and immediately explode , or are they go to embrace the boundary ? ”
Can Sargent respond to that ? Hell yes he can .
“ Okay formally , Elon Musk , anything that adult male says is an unlimited lie , ” he said , to applause from the audience . “ Elon Musk just pull shite out of his butt on a hebdomadary basis . ”
The whole matter just vocalize like really great fun , and I ’m gutted I missed it . fortuitously , the group discussion isannual , and there are events in London and Sydney coming up . See you there .
