After spending Rs 31.4 lakh, this YouTuber realised that the earth is not flat
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Campanella, a prominent figure in the Flat Earth community, had been certain that Antarctica was merely an «ice wall» at the edge of the flat Earth. He also believed that the Sun behaved differently in the Southern Hemisphere, remaining stationary rather than following a predictable cycle of rising and setting. His goal was to disprove the well-known phenomenon of the Midnight Sun in Antarctica, a natural occurrence that can only happen on a spherical Earth.
Upon arriving in Antarctica, Campanella experienced something that shattered his beliefs: the Midnight Sun. This phenomenon, which causes the Sun to remain visible 24 hours a day during the southern hemisphere's summer, is a key piece of evidence supporting the Earth’s spherical nature. «Sometimes you are wrong in life,» Campanella admitted in a video after the trip. «I thought there was no 24-hour Sun. In fact, I was pretty sure of it.»
In a moment of self-reflection, he acknowledged his error: «I realize that I'll be called a shill for just saying that, and you know what, 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.»
The experiment also forced Campanella to reconsider the Azimuthal Equidistant (AE) map, a cornerstone of Flat Earth theory. «To me, it means that
