A flat earther was "taken aback" after a costly £16,000 experiment backfired and proved that planet earth is, in fact, round.

Conspiracy theorist Bob Knodel spent $20,000 on a laser gyroscope that he expected would show that the planet does not rotate as part of the Netflix documentary Behind the Curve.

The YouTuber expected his expensive kit would show that the planet does not rotate, but was left red-faced as the experiment failed.

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However, using a gyroscope he found that there was a “drift” that was picked up each hour.

He said: “What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift. A 15-degree per hour drift."

Mr Knodel accepted that this is exactly what would be expected from a rotating globe and not what he was wanting at all, the Mirror reported.

“Now, obviously we were taken aback by that, wow, that's kind of a problem," he continued. “We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for ways to disprove it was actually registering the motion of the Earth.”

But despite making refinements of the gyroscope it continually showed that the Earth is round. He then started talking to a fellow Flat Earther at a Denver meeting where he said that they had to persist to try and prove their argument somehow and emphasised that he had spent $20,000 on the gyroscope experiment.

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“We don't want to blow this, you know? When you've got $20,000 in this freaking gyro," he said. “If we dumped what we found right now, it would be bad? It would be bad. What I just told you was confidential.”

Then in a second makeshift experiment for the Netflix documentary, Flat Earthers used a camera to film through two holes and a person standing on the other side shone a torch back at the camera.

The idea was that if the light can be seen with the camera with the holes at the same height above the ground then it would prove that the Earth was flat.

But with the light not seen the experiment again failed.

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