Earth: Flat or Round

or when several million people know a secret and nobody reveals anything.

No, several million people know a secret and the ones who reveal it are labled as crazy.

You think nobody has ever ran through the streets yelling "The earth is flat! Everything is a conspiracy!!" before?

A common misconception about the conspiracy is that it would have to be kept completely quiet. It doesn't. Everyone already "knows" the earth is flat (edit: I mean round), and it's going to take a lot more than a few "crazy" people to change their mind. The governments know this, which is why they haven't shut down this website. They know that it would be almost impossible to deprogram decades of misinformation, and don't see us as a threat.

lol, I think you meant to say

everybody already "knows" that the earth is round...

Haha yeah, you're right, that was a mistake.

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or when several million people know a secret and nobody reveals anything.

No, several million people know a secret and the ones who reveal it are labled as crazy.

You think nobody has ever ran through the streets yelling "The earth is flat! Everything is a conspiracy!!" before?

Okay, you got me there.

But what motive does the government have for keeping an FE secret?

Don't go through this again!!

The FEers believe it is for money and power- Power because apparently it makes the politicians feel important if they deceive us, and money because apparently they steal all the money that goes into space programs and satellites.

This is actually ludicrous because if this is all a conspiracy, then all the governments are in it together (Since before the space program started, of course), and would have had to have spent trillions in creating the illusion they are divided, mainly in the "conspiracies" that were the two world wars, the Cold War etc.

Let's see, ships DO disappear behind the horizon because they go downwards, so to say

Why does the earth look like a 2D disc when looked at? Does a ball look like a 2D disc when looked at, yes, they both do, is the ball a disc then? No, it isn't.

I remember there was a mathematic formula that showed how big an area is that you can see on a round object depending on haw far away from it you are, this works pretty well on earth too, the moon, and the other planets that are in our solar system. The only thing you need is their diameter, pii and you distance from the round object, can't remember how the formula was right now.

Let's see, ships DO disappear behind the horizon because they go downwards, so to say

Or because the light bends upwards.

Or because the light bends upwards.

Why would the light bend upwards when it doesn't change it's medium? And why would it bend upwards when the light is comming from there?

The density of the earth's atmosphere isn't constant, so light that travels any significant distance is constantly changing mediums, which would make possible the refraction necessary for the bottom-up obscuring people claim happens at sea.