So to talk about astronauts like that, I don’t know where they get off," he added. "They call astronauts actors who are paid to lie, and that boils my blood because these are guys who barely hold down jobs and do nothing. I have a massive respect for the scientific community and these guys and the rest of the Flat Earthers are just – in my opinion – totally disrespectful and claim they are lying which is totally wrong!" "I am not a scientist by any means but I am heavy on reading about space, watching the documentaries, sci-fi fan, etc. "I have a couple of friends that are flat earthers and it drives me crazy their total nonsense that they speak," Gauld told the Daily Record in an interview. There is no official number, but some surveys and online groups have recorded supporters in the tens of thousands – not a large amount in the grand scheme of things, but a sizeable enough crowd for a belief as ludicrous as the planet being a giant disc of some sort. Thanks to the internet, the idea of a Flat Earth has propagated much quicker over the past decade or so. Some say the Earth is flat.Īlong with anti-vaccination supporters and various other conspiracy theorist groups, the Flat Earth community has steadily been gaining support around the world (pun intended). IMAGE: Daily RecordĮxtremely fed up with a friend's insistence that the Earth is flat, the 37-year-old oil worker from Aberdeen took it upon himself to look up the price of seat on board a Virgin Galactic – Virgin's civilian spaceflight brand – flight and then took to the crowdfunding portal to raise US$344,435 (GBP250,000) – just enough for one lucky Flat Earther to be sent into space and finally proven wrong. Aberdeen-based Marc Gauld is raising funds to send a Flat Earther into space. In Scotland, UK, a man named Marc Gauld is raising funds via GoFundMe to prove Flat Earthers wrong once and for all by sending one of them into space. Ever disagreed with someone so badly that you ended up involving real money in your pursuit to prove them wrong?
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