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A sportswear boss has put his money where his mouth is and challenged flat Earthers to persuade him of their conspiracy theory.
In the event you can prove it, not only will you make the remainder of us appear like fools for believing in gravity or the Moon landings – but you would also win a £3billion company.
In a brand new ad campaign, the sportswear giant Columbia has challenged all flat Earthers, from either side of the globe, to prove the planet isn’t round.
And its chief executive, Tim Boyle, has promised at hand over the keys to the corporate when you can.
In a video posted on Columbia Sportswear’s YouTube channel on Tuesday (December 2), the boss, wearing an informal navy quarter-zip and red and white checked shirt, challenged conspiracy theorists to prove him improper.
Mr Boyle said: ‘This message is for flat Earthers. You guys claim there’s an end to the Earth?
‘Well just go snap an image. Send it to us – and also you get the assets to the corporate. All of it.
‘No paperwork, no lawyers, no catches.’
He’s then interrupted by a person who appears to be a component of Columbia’s legal team, wearing a black suit and blue patterned tie, who said: ‘Um, Tim, there’s some paperwork.’
The CEO, taking viewers on a tour of Columbia’s facilities, then said, gesturing to a spread of jackets and jumpers hanging from a clothing rail, that ‘we’re supplying you with all this’.
Mr Boyle hinted that successful flat Earthers would even have access to the office printer, the camera used for his or her photoshoots, parcels being shipped out of the constructing, someone’s lunch, a stapler, a wall mount of an elk and a whiteboard.
Signing off the video, the Columbia boss said: ‘Hey, flat Earthers: do me a favour.
‘In the event you’re going to the sting of the Earth, wear a Columbia. You’ll need it. Better of luck.’
Is the Earth flat?
The primary flat Earthers could be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia who thought the earth was disc-shaped and under a dome.
But by about 300 BCE, educated scholars overwhelmingly accepted that the Earth is a sphere due to the work of mental heavyweights Pythagoras and Aristotle.
The Greeks calculated the planet’s circumference with remarkable accuracy.
Observers assumed the Earth’s spherical shape since it solid a curved shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses.
And it has been much easier to document its curvature since cameras and planes were invented, because photographers can now reach altitudes from which they’ll record it.
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