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by cirgue 3135 days ago
Claiming that you believe the earth is flat is definitly not the weirdest lie that's ever been told in pursuit of funding.
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What would that be?

Anyways if you read the story, it's extremely suspicious how he suddenly became interested in the flat earth conspiracy in a request for funding. And if you wanted to prove the earth was flat a balloon, gopro-on-a-rocket, daylight hours, or just some big sticks with a buddy at a different latitude would be easier.

I would say "A fool and his money are soon parted. We are here to help." is a valid business model...
On the contrary, the flat earthers claim that all of those things can easily be done to prove that they’re correct. And/or they dispute the common arguments that appeal to results from those experiments.