This pseudo-documentary is misleading in the extreme. There are many scientists from around the world doing real research into the flat earth - not the paltry beginner's experiments gone wrong shown here. Both of the experiments they attempted have been clearly proven outside of this documentary by actual teams of international scientists, risking their careers and tenure to prove it. But I guess we have to go to YouTube to find it...
This mockumentary chose a few people who were clearly crazy and focused on the personal lives of the people involved rather than the science. I guess science doesn't make good storytelling, hmm? That must be why the last half was focusing on how we 'feel' about people believing one way or another, rather than on the science itself.
How can you have a documentary on Flat Earth without demonstrating at least the first ten principles of why the earth could be flat? (Gyroscopes, lack of curvature in water, height and distance, lack of changing constellations since we are always traveling at incredible speed through different space than we've seen before, etc.) And how could this be refuted unless those young scientists actually used their mathematics and demonstrations to refute them?
This documentary could have been absolutely amazing. Take some serious funding and demonstrate the the Flat Earth principles are wrong for a worldwide audience. But instead, we have some young scientists, psychologists, and other 'experts' telling us why this is a social phenomena instead of a scientific one, and trying to show the stigma attached to individuals who believe something outside of the cultural norm.
F- for science. Sorry I wasted my time.
This mockumentary chose a few people who were clearly crazy and focused on the personal lives of the people involved rather than the science. I guess science doesn't make good storytelling, hmm? That must be why the last half was focusing on how we 'feel' about people believing one way or another, rather than on the science itself.
How can you have a documentary on Flat Earth without demonstrating at least the first ten principles of why the earth could be flat? (Gyroscopes, lack of curvature in water, height and distance, lack of changing constellations since we are always traveling at incredible speed through different space than we've seen before, etc.) And how could this be refuted unless those young scientists actually used their mathematics and demonstrations to refute them?
This documentary could have been absolutely amazing. Take some serious funding and demonstrate the the Flat Earth principles are wrong for a worldwide audience. But instead, we have some young scientists, psychologists, and other 'experts' telling us why this is a social phenomena instead of a scientific one, and trying to show the stigma attached to individuals who believe something outside of the cultural norm.
F- for science. Sorry I wasted my time.
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