Fakery of the Final "Experiment" (Observation)
Why is it so important to some flat earthers to disprove the credibility of the footage collected by TFE? It is clear that it is important to some flat earthers, since there are a handful of videos with titles like The Final Experiment Exposed made by flat earthers.
In another post on #flat-earth-questions indio007 wrote, "a 24 hour sun can't prove or disprove the figue of the earth it an only prove or disprove statements about the sun."
Given this, it seems that, if TFE footage isn't fake, it would have no consequences for flat earth. So what's with the huge need in some to expose it as fake? I was on this server not too long ago talking to someone about footage (before) of a 24 hour sun in Antarctica, and they were claiming it wasn't reliable. If a 24 hour sun in Antarctica can be consistent with flat earth, why do so many flat earthers think it's a conspiracy?
Note I'm not saying all flat earthers think this way.
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Hopefully most in this forum aren't gullible enough to provide the appeal to motive/hasty generalization answer that this question begs for.
1. There is no logical syllogism for TFE, that's true.
2. Some of the footage is suspect, this is also true
This does not mean that there are two camps, or two types of flat earthers, or a "need" to expose it vs those who know there is no logical syllogism for TFE. Some also recognize that yes the footage is suspect AND that the very thing they set out to do was a fruitless endeavor (did not prove flat or globe) AND that no experiment was conducted - nothing in the real world was tested.
Try asking a question instead about one of these three things rather than asking a loaded question about the very people who are scrutinizing the footage, the lack of logical framework and or the lack of experiment of the so called "The Final Experiment" (aka The Fruitless Endeavor).
Also: just because a 24 hour sun could happen in antarctica (or any celestial object moving in any particular way in the sky for that matter) while the earth measures flat beneath it, it doesn't then logically follow that the footage must be accepted as true based upon the possibility alone.
So while it's true the TFE lacks a logical framework and that such an observation could occur while earth measures flat, it is also true that there is good reason to think the footage lacks integrity and that people directly involved lack logic themselves thinking this was going to accomplish what they had set out to do.
EDIT: Also although it is true we don't have the need to expose the footage as fake, it is also true that TFE participants and supporters primarily want to talk about this particular thing rather than discuss (or even provide) a logical syllogism.