Despite the many , many photographs of the Earth taken from outer space and all the other evidence we have that the Earth is a world ( because it unconditionally is ) , there are citizenry out there who just are n’t confident .
When presented with these photographs , 2-dimensional - Earthers tend to believe that they are photoshopped by NASA for purposes that are n’t entirely clear ( after all , what could anybody mayhap benefit from pretending that the Earth is a dissimilar shape than it is ) . One gentleman has do up with a solution and is attempting to get funding for it . Marc Gauld wants to send a 2-dimensional - Earther into place so that they can report back to everybody else what he fancy .
The crowdfunder , on GoFundMe , aims to leaven enough money to stop up a just the ticket as one of the first masses to take a commercial flight to space .
" This campaign is to prove to flat earthers once and for all that the land is round , " Gauld writes in the crowdfunder . It presently takes $ 250,000 to secure a tail on a Virgin Galactic flight to go in the land ’s orbit . "
It might seem like a stupendous waste of money - as our occupier astrophysicist Dr Alfredo Carpineti put it " f * * * them , why should they get to go to space ? ? " - the personal organizer is hoping that flat - Earthers themselves will pony up the wampum .
" If flat earthers genuinely want to turn out flat world then I would ask most donations to descend from the flat earther community The first flight are design for this twelvemonth but maybe held back due to the COVID pandemic but I trust to have a matte earther in blank within the next couple years . "
Should the money be rear ( and let ’s face it , that ’s not likely ) the PDA says he will permit high - visibility flat - Earthers to put on to go to space . This one lucky person will win the chance to be known as a NASA shill in the monotonic - Earther biotic community when they get back and say " yeah ok it ’s a globe " .
As clapper in cheek as it seems , Gauld has already adjoin Elon Musk and Richard Branson about corrupt up a slot on a rocket , Metro reports .
" Please get onboard with this as it is in the name of science and it will finally disprove or demonstrate the flat globe theory and we can finally put this to rest , " he wrote . " I am 100 % serious about this and your donation will be highly comprehended and will be aid to stop a entirely unsupported scientific view mother in the way of real advancement . "
It probably wo n’t convince them , given how they have n’t been convert by anything else thus far , but at least it ’ll be safe than themattempting to build their own rocketsor sample tosail to the edge of the world .
