A sign proclaiming the earth is in actual fact flat has been erected on a beach on the southeast coast of New Zealand’s South Island.
The picketed post supports an A3 white piece of paper with a message in black pen on the right side and two illustrations on the left.
‘Do Research!!’ the bulletin commands. ‘Youtube: 200 Proofs Earth is NOT a Spinning Ball By Eric Duboy. Wake Up.’
The sign (pictured) has an illustration aside a note telling people to ‘Wake up’ to the idea the world is actually flat
Dr Stephen Voss posted the picture of the sign to his Facebook page after seeing it
The poster pinned to the wooden stick caught the eye of Dr Stephen Voss when he was out for a walk with his wife on Saturday afternoon.
‘Spotted on our walk to Lawyers Head this afternoon, it appears that the flat earth society have infiltrated St Kilda,’ Dr Voss posted to Facebook.
‘Funny how they equate doing research with watching YouTube videos!’
The YouTube video was uploaded by a YouTube subscriber called Eric Dubay described on his account as a ’34-year-old American living in Thailand’.
Over two hours the clip goes through ‘200 Flat Earth Proofs’ and claims to be the largest collection of ‘supposed spinning ball Earth proofs’.
Dr Voss said he couldn’t tell how long the sign had been there, but as it looked minimally weathered he guessed it could have popped up overnight.
An example of how the Flat Earthers believe the world is laid out, taken from the Official Flat Earth & Globe Discussion Facebook page
The general practitioner told Daily Mail Australia he had been aware of the ‘flat Earth movement’ for a couple of years, he was bemused to see it, immediately understanding the theory it was alluding to.
‘I was just a little surprised to see it on my doorstep.’
‘My wife on the other hand had no idea there are people that genuinely believe the earth is flat and was initially confused by the sign,’ Dr Voss said, who is also an enthusiastic amateur astronomer.
The in-factual declaration comes just two days after Youtube video blogger D Marble tried to prove the world isn’t spherical by taking a spirit level onto a plane in a bizarre stunt.
YouTuber video blogger D Marble attempted to discredit scientific fact by taking the DIY tool onto a flight from North Carolina to Seattle – he thinks the earth is flat
YouTuber video blogger D Marble attempted to discredit scientific fact by taking the DIY tool onto a flight from North Carolina to Seattle
He thought the pilot to tip the plane forwards to ‘compensate for the curvature’ of the earth – but when the spirit bubble remained central, he claimed it proved the world was flat.
But people have branded the flat-earther’s stunt a ‘perfect combination of brilliant and stupid’ and suggested that he should have looked out of the window to see the curvature of the horizon.
The scientific explanation for why the bubble remained steady is that the plane nose did not dip because gravity was pulling it towards the earth and it was generating lift to pull away.