Flat Earthers admit defeat after seeing 24-hour Antarctic sun: ‘Sometimes you’re wrong’

A group of popular flat-earth YouTubers have conceded defeat against the “globers” after taking a trip to Antarctica to see the 24-hour sun.

Colorado pastor Will Duffy organized the highly anticipated Dec. 14 trip, dubbed “The Ultimate Experiment,” which brought together four “flat earthers” and four “globe earthers” in an attempt to settle the debate once and for all.

Flat Earthers have long claimed that Antarctica holds the key to proving that the earth is flat.

In summer, due to the slope of the land, the sun does not set over most of the continent. In the flat earth view of the world, Antarctica is actually a wall of ice that surrounds the other continents and holds in the oceans. If this view were correct, the sun must rise and set every day, even in Antarctica, and cannot circle the sky for the entire 24 hours.

“Okay, guys, sometimes you’re wrong in life,” Jeran Campanella of YouTube channel Jeranism told viewers on a midnight live stream from Union Glacier Camp, four and a half hours south of Punta Arenas, Chile.

“And I thought there was no 24 hour sun, actually I was pretty sure of that.”

Pastor Duffy noted that Jeranism was “one of the most popular YouTube channels on the flat earth,” but Campanella scoffed “not for long.”

“It’s a fact ‘the sun circles you in the south,'” he said.

“What does that mean? You guys will have to figure it out for yourself. Don’t listen to my beliefs or my opinion, it shouldn’t matter to you. But you should at least be able to admit that the sun does exactly what these guys said [it] surrounds the southern continent. I realize I’m going to be called weird just for saying that, and you know what, if you’re weird to be honest, so be it. I honestly believed that there was no 24-hour sun, honestly now I believe that there is.â€

The ride had been in the works for three years, after Pastor Duffy first learned on Facebook that some people still believe the earth is flat.

No flat earthers had ever been to Antarctica – a popular conspiracy theory was that the 1959 Antarctic Treaty prevented them from going, especially in the summer, lest they reveal the truth.

To “end this debate, once and for all,” so “no one has to waste any more time arguing about the shape of the earth,” Pastor Duffy organized an all-expense paid $35,000 per person trip to Antarctica. Logistics & Shipping.

Austin Whitsitt of Witsit Gets It admitted to viewers “we were wrong” about the 24-hour sun, but said he was still open to the earth being flat.

“I was one of the people who said I definitely didn’t think there was a 24-hour sun,” he said.

“We obviously haven’t seen the sun for 24 hours, but it’s doing what they said it was going to do, very clearly. It’s still bouncing high in the sky. So obviously we’re documenting it. But I said what I felt about it all along, the truth is not afraid of investigation. I think we are really trying to understand the truth. Of course, some people think that what we’re told is the truth, I don’t think so, but I think people have to be honest and humble and be like, you know, we were wrong when we pretended there was no sun 24 hours.â€

Whitsitt added that there may be a way to reconcile the 24-hour sun with the flat earth, and he “had seen a physical demonstration that might show this function.”

“But I think some of the data we’re going to get from this trip may help clarify whether that’s actually what’s going on,” he said.

“Obviously, we never claimed that people couldn’t go here, we just say that you can’t explore it freely and privately. Of course we knew you could go to approved places. The purpose of this trip is to see if there is 24-hour sun. Clearly “I don’t think it falsifies the earth plane, I don’t think it proves a globe, I think it’s a single data point”.

Lisbeth Acosta of the FlatEarth Gang said what mattered most was “putting our egos aside.”

“I’ve seen a lot of vitriol, a lot of backlash from both sides and it’s like are we here for the truth or are we here to maintain a narrative and ego?” she said.

“That doesn’t mean a 24-hour sun proves a globe model, there are still things that are definitely up for debate” but we’re here working together and I think the most important part is just that. human experience.â€