Vendée Globe: Around the earth, just to check that it is turning correctly

They are called terrestrialists. And there are more of them than you might think – especially in Donald Trump’s electorate. According to them, a global conspiracy, hatched by the scientific community, space agencies and even GPS manufacturers, would like to deceive us by affirming that the Earth is round.

While in reality the world is completely flat, LP style: go to the edge, just to see, but don’t lean too far, at the risk of falling into interstellar nothingness.

That’s the most obvious thing, isn’t it? How can it be that there are minds foolish enough to believe that another hemisphere would be home to trees that grow with their branches at the bottom and humans who live with their feet higher than their heads?

To support their thesis, the terrestrialists should take up the challenge of the Vendée Globe. They could pool together to buy a nice walnut shell, hire an old idle sea dog and set out to conquer the Everest of the seas.

A solo world tour, without stopovers or assistance, where the aim is to descend into the Deep South, where the most inhospitable waters on the planet exist.

Down there, if the water submerges the boats, it is not because the ocean is upside down, but because 10 meter troughs swallow up the reckless bows.

Word of sailors, no one has ever seen the end of the world on the horizon, even if they sometimes prayed for it, by their own admission: that they would fall into the abyss and that no one would speak of it again. . My goodness, after weeks of navigation in the Deep South, the temptation to let yourself die is compelling.

Returning from the Styx, we would no longer find anyone to still support the terrestrialist theory, unless we really wanted to be taken for a ride.

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