“I consider myself a man of truth, someone who hates being ignorant,” Paul tells the crowd, spouting off some stats about the moon landing. It’s Logan Paul, the mega-popular YouTuber and prankster who last year gained notoriety for making a video of a dead man in Japan’s “Suicide Forest.” There’s a persistent needling at reality.Ĭonference organizers have been teasing a surprise guest, a real A-lister. Eventually I Google “time in Denver” to confirm my phone is in the correct time zone. Not even the whole song, just the opening bit over and over, around and around the place.

Someone keeps walking around whistling the theme music to Westworld, the TV show about a fake world inside a dome. Both clocks in my hotel room are an hour ahead, even though Daylight Saving Time ended 11 days ago. It seems incredibly easy, even natural, to go insane here. At the hotel bar, a Flat Earther tells me about the supposed nonexistence of certain intercontinental flights, two of which I have personally taken within the past four years. It’s located on an unfriendly bit of highway, so few of us leave, opting instead to mill about in this enclosed world of hotel and restaurant and conference center. “That’s interesting,” Jeran commented during the particular scene.The conference that drew hundreds took place Thursday and Friday at the Crowne Plaza, a Denver airport hotel and convention center. He then asked Henrique to lift the light above his head. On a flat Earth, he should be seeing the light.

A perplexed Jeran radioed Henrique to confirm the height of the light at 5.18 meters (17 feet) above sea level. When the experiment began, the light didn’t appear on camera. Given Henrique’s distance from the holes, he would have to position the light above his head (7 meters/23 feet above the water level) for it to be seen. But on a spherical Earth, there’s the curvature to consider. If the Earth was flat, no matter how far Henrique was, the light would come through the holes. He used two boards, both with a hole at a height of 5.18 meters (17 feet) above water level, a camera, and another person by the name of Henrique holding a torch at the same height and aligned with the holes. In the clip, a flat-Earther named Jeran from a group known as Globebusters set up a simple experiment to prove that the Earth is flat.

Flat earther gets owned