"What I just told you was confidential"
In what may be one of the most satisfying TV moments we can recall, a group of conspiracy theorists have accidentally spent thousands of dollars to prove that yes, actually, the Earth is round.
The scene in a new Netflix documentary called Behind the Curve, which follows a group of Flat Earthers, a "small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat".
One of those Flat Earthers is Bob Knodel, who hosts a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the theory and who is one of the team relying on a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn't actually rotate.
Except... It does.
"What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift," Knodel explains. "A 15-degree per hour drift."
"Now, obviously we were taken aback by that - 'Wow, that's kind of a problem.'
"We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for an easy way to disprove it was actually registering the motion of the Earth."
You know what they say: If your experiment proves you wrong, just disregard the results!
"We don't want to blow this, you know?" Knodel then says to another Flat Earther.
"If we dumped what we found right now, it would be bad? It would be bad, what I just told you was confidential."
If you're keen to see this scene - and so much more - Behind the Curve is available on Netflix now.
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