I answered you in the other thread before seeing that you posted this as its own thread. My answer:
why doesnt anyone (with a small amount of money) organize to fly a drone over the South pole, heading due south (for as long as it can fly) ?
this would rest the lid on whether flat earth people are correct or not.
First off, it isn't a "small amount of money". Travel to the region could easily cost upwards of $40,000.
Second, while drones are allowed
there are rules, one of which is you must recover the craft. This means you would not be allowed to simply fly south until it dies, unless your machine has the range (both
flight range and
radio transmitter range) to actually cross to the other side of the continent (round earth assumption) for recovery. I don't think any drones can do that yet. (Another rule prevents flying over the pole itself, to prevent crashing there, but a flight nearby should satisfy the challenge.).
Third, even if such a flight were completed, with full HD video and a GPS track the whole way, the
wiki itself says "In general, we at the Flat Earth Society do not lend much credibility to photographic evidence. It is too easily manipulated and altered....With this litany of problems, it's easy to see why photographic evidence is not to be trusted." If the video is likely to be rejected
a priori, why should anybody (on either side) bother going to the effort and expense of shooting it in the first place?
And fourth, a reason that will sound harsh but I include for the sake of completing the list: of those people who even know there
is a modern Flat Earth viewpoint, the vast majority believe it to be either fake (internet trolls pretending to believe) or folly. Very few outside this forum take the Flat Earth viewpoint seriously, certainly not to the level of spending time and money to prove it wrong. The rest of the world considers the matter settled by thousands of years, and if a modern person doesn't believe round earth already, one more piece of evidence is unlikely to change that.