If it were in Washington, D.C., spelunkers in the Philippines would be goners, and if it were in Tokyo people surfing the dunes in the UAE would be caught in the space chute. If the center were in Egypt, kitesurfers in Mauii would be floating off the edge through the sheer force of gravity if the center were in Peru, snowboarders conquering the French Alps would be zipping off past the North Pole. Regardless of where the center is, extreme sports athletes are testing the dimensions of our world far from it. But that’s why action sports are the best place to look to disprove the theory on the grounds of gravitational pull. We don’t know, in a hypothetical Flat Earth, where the center would be.

But if this were the case, action sports athletes all over the world would likely be getting sucked out into space simply by virtue of where they go. But moving out from the center, gravity would begin to pull people outward as well as downward. On a theoretical Flat Earth, gravity in the middle would operate much the way it does on… well… actual Earth. Why? Well, because of gravity.Īs has been explained by scientists, gravity is perhaps the most basic scientific sport that indicates Flat-Earthers are misguided. On a saner and more ordinary level, however, there is some truth to the idea that the very act of participating in extreme sports can theoretically disprove Flat-Earth theories.

We’ll give Mad Mike a little bit of credit for the attempt. While not technically an extreme sport, building and successfully launching your own rocket is pretty extreme, even if it didn’t fly too high in terms of astrological research. It’s a ridiculous story – one that seems bound for a Hollywood spoofing – and probably a good reason that the aforementioned British man can’t get an official bet on the Earth’s flatness the logical follow-up would be how he intends to prove it. However, he only reached an altitude of roughly 1,875 feet, and failed to get the proof he sought.

‘Mad’ Mike Hughes famously built himself a rocket so as to be able to fly over the Earth and see for himself that it is in fact flat. The clearest instance of anything in extreme sports overlapping with Flat-Earth theories is actually an experiment conducted by a man hoping to prove the conspiracy true by himself.

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