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The Final Experiment — flat-Earthers went to Antarctica and saw the 24-hour Sun

The claim

“You can’t even get to Antarctica, and the 24-hour Sun there is faked.”

What is true

The Sun does rise and set at the edge of Antarctica for part of the year, just as it does at home. That much of the description is accurate.

What is measured

Both sides agreed in advance that a continuous 24-hour Antarctic Sun would refute a flat Earth. In December 2024 eight people watched it happen, and the flat-Earthers among them said so on camera.

What would show this is wrong

the Sun setting at Union Glacier during the southern summer, or any independent traveler reaching the Antarctic interior in December and filming a normal sunrise-and-sunset cycle.

Sources

  1. The Final Experiment (expedition). Overview of the December 2024 Antarctic expedition organized by pastor Will Duffy: four flat-Earth and four globe-Earth content creators flew from Chile to link
  2. Campanella’s reversal & trip logistics. Coverage of flat-Earther Jeran Campanella conceding the 24-hour Sun (“sometimes you are wrong in life… I thought there was no 24-hour Sun”), and of th link
  3. Duffy’s pledge & the Antarctic-Treaty claim. Report noting that Duffy stated ahead of the trip he would concede a flat Earth if the Sun was not visible for 24 hours, that four flat-Earthers link
  4. The expedition’s own account. The organizers’ description of the agreed test (both sides accept that a 24-hour Antarctic Sun settles the shape question), the use of polar operator Antarctic link
  5. The concessionary “singular data point” response. After The Final Experiment, flat-Earth creator Austin Whitsitt acknowledged the Antarctic Sun was behaving as globe advocates predicted, yet link
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