Lead Flat Earth conspiracy theorist shares ‘evidence’ one of the biggest events in human history was staged

A leading Flat Earther has argued that one of the biggest scientific achievements in human history was staged.

Flat Earth is the conspiracy theory that just refuses to die, regardless of how many astronauts blast off into space and photograph our home planet in all of her round, glorious beauty.

Forget science, forget photographic evidence; in the mind of a hardcore Flat Earther, we live on a floating frisbee where the ocean just cascades over the side like an interstellar waterfall.

One of the most prominent Flat Earthers is US content creator Mark Sargent.

Mark Sargent is one of the leading voices in the Flat Earth Movement (YouTube/MadThatPod)

As a man who is widely credited as popularising the modern Flat Earth movement, Sargent regularly shares his theories on YouTube, believes planets are just ‘lights on the ceiling’, and he even appeared in Netflix’s 2018 documentary Behind the Curve.

Sargent’s beliefs have since expanded beyond Flat Earth to include ideas that Bigfoot walks among us and that astronauts are Freemasons.

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In Sargent’s view of space, the absence of conventional planets means the 1969 Moon landing wasn’t possible, an argument which he outlines on Harry Robinson and Carl Reigler’s MAD THAT series, a podcast which aims to ‘interview the most exclusive guests and uncover the maddest stories’.

So, what does Sargent have to say about the Moon landings?

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,” Sargent said of the Apollo 11 mission.

In Sargent’s view, this was filmed in a Hollywood studio (NASA/Newsmakers)

“You see what resonates with the public, you change a few details, and then the story becomes better.”

Sargent then went on to claim that soft spacesuits depicted in TV and film aren’t scientifically possible, which suggests to him the moon landings were faked.

“Tell me how a spacesuit works in a vacuum, tell me how it works,” he said, going on to add that America capitalised on their post-WWII advantage to become the greatest showmen in the world.

Which isn’t entirely wrong.

“The Americans… if there is a rumour or a lie that will make us look better, we won’t hesitate,” he said. “We absolutely will do it.”

Sargent then went on to add that this line of thinking was what spearheaded the moon landings as a way to improve America’s prestige.

“You don’t realise what happened after World War Two, the rest of the world was smouldering,” he said. “Everybody was picking up ashes except America.

“America was like ‘Let’s start inventing stuff’… and then somebody came up with the idea that’s like ‘You know what, let’s say we went to the moon’.”

Thankfully, due to the advancements in space technology, it won’t be too long until the average person can head up into space and settle the debate once and for all.