Flat earth proponents who travelled to Antarctica are surprised to discover a 24-hour sun and are wrestling with the implications for their theories.U.S. content creator Austin Whitsitt was among roughly 15 people who travelled to Antarctica for The Final Experiment. The trip was organized by Colorado Pastor Will Duffy to dissuade people from belief in a flat earth. Most "flatters" believe there would not be a perpetual Antarctic sun around its summer solstice, as they conceive of the place as an ice wall on the perimeter of the flat earth..Globe earthers and flat earthers head to Antarctica to settle reality.In a YouTube livestream from Antarctica on Monday, Whitsitt confirmed the perpetual sun was real."I was wrong," Whitsitt said. "I would have said 80% easy that there wasn't one here. I never said I knew for a fact there wasn't one...But I've said the 24-hour sun would would pose more of a problem.".The truth was hard for some of the live chat audience to accept, but Whitsitt pushed back."You guys sound so insane when you say stuff like this is all a lie. We're all using green screens or whatever," he said. "I'm sitting right here telling you that it's real, and so if all of a sudden I'm an actor, I'm a shill, whatever-- you're just ridiculous... and I think that that behavior is just laughably lame."Some viewers asked why Whitsitt's breath wasn't foggy, so he said the calm air was quite dry. Someone asked him to throw a snowball at the camera. He returned to a nearby shack to get his gloves first and breathed out moist air when he returned. This prompted accusations he was just exhaling a vape. However, Whitsitt walked 15 metres away and returned with two handfuls of snow.When the drone of an airplane was heard, Whitsitt tried to capture its distant image. The speck in the distance was hard to discern on the livestream, which prompted more scepticism. He pointed out the many 360-degree cameras on site should be enough to prove the perpetual sun wasn't staged."Those shots have been a 24-hour sun everywhere, all over this place. I don't see how someone can be upset about that," he said. "I would encourage people just to kind of chill because, like, truth doesn't fear investigation. It's becoming kind of laughable at this point. You can understand, from our perspective, it just sounds insane."Jeran Campanella, a fellow flatter and content creator had a similar take. He travelled with Whitsitt on the $31,495 round trip flight from Punta Arenas Chile to Union Glacier Camp at nearly 80 degrees south latitude. "Sometimes you are wrong in life. I thought there was no 24-hour sun. In fact, I was pretty sure of it,” said Campanella.."If you're a shill for being honest so be it - I honestly believed there was no 24-hour sun... I honestly now believe there is. That's it," he added.Based on his observations, Campanella couldn't conceive of how the flat earth map was correct.“What does it mean? You'll have to figure it out. To me, it means that the AE [Azimuthal equidistant] map no longer works, but that doesn’t mean that I’m right," he said.Whitsitt didn't embrace the globe either. He pointed to one theorist who suggested that the firmament (a dome that covers the earth) and waters associated with it might form a reflective surface that allowed a reverse image of the sun to be seen in the south.To address this possibility, Whitsitt invited astronomers to take pictures of the sun from where they were to see how the sunspots corresponded.Some flat earth opponents also joined The Final Experiment. Michael Toon, a glober with his own YouTube channel, phoned a flatter right from Antarctica. He Nathan Oakley "a liar" and "scum" and said his claims people would be turned away from the Antarctic ice wall at gun point did not materialize.
