Pastor Will Duffy led the so-called “Ultimate Experiment,” an expedition that took a group of people to Antarctica . The goal? They wanted to prove, once and for all, that our planet was spherical — but, to the frustration of some of the participants, that’s not what they found when they got there.
“I created the Ultimate Experiment to end the debate once and for all. Once we go to Antarctica, no one will ever have to waste time arguing about the shape of the Earth again,” Duffy said in a statement about the visit.
Among the expedition's proposals was the idea of proving that there were no barriers (literal or otherwise) that would prevent the visit . According to supporters of the belief, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty prohibits civilians from visiting the site, which would be a way of hiding the true shape of the planet.
Furthermore, they also wanted to verify whether the Sun would shine for 24 hours during the summer and “put an end to the debate about the shape of the Earth.” However, such a “debate” should not exist, since the spherical shape of our planet has already been proven countless times by science — and even you can verify it for yourself.
And it would be impossible for the so-called “Midnight Sun” , a phenomenon in which the Sun remains visible at midnight in the summer in the Arctic and Antarctic Circle, to occur if the Earth were not spherical.
After all, this happens because the Earth, in addition to being round (or, more precisely, geoid), orbits the Sun with a slight tilt as it rotates on its own axis. Therefore, when it is summer at the South Pole, the tilt of our planet causes this region to face the Sun for 24 hours .
Lo and behold, upon arriving there, some “flat-Earthers” (those who insist on denying the evidence that the Earth is spherical) admitted that they may have been mistaken about the duration of sunlight there . “Sometimes you make mistakes in life. I thought there would be no sunlight for 24 hours, but in fact, I was sure,” commented Jeran Campanella, a “Flat Earth” enthusiast and influencer who participated in the trip.
After observing the length of sunlight during the
Arctic summer, he concluded that what he called “global Earthers” are right. “I
know I’m going to be called a ‘phony’ for saying this, and if you’re a ‘phony’
for being honest, so be it — I honestly believed there was no 24-hour sun,”
Campanella added. “I honestly believe
there is now .”