Can anyone explain to me the reasons behind that conspiracy to "keep everyone believing the earth is round"? I mean people don't conspire just for the heck of it...
Well, if the north pole is at the hub and the "south pole" is really the Rim, as the flat-Earthers suggest, then clearly the southern hemidisc has three times the land area of the southern.
Proof: Assuming the disc has radius R, the northern hemidisc's area is
AreaN = pi * (R/2)^2 = (pi / 4) * R^2.
But the southern hemdisc has area
AreaS = AreaEarth - AreaN = pi * R^2 - (pi/4) * R^2 = (3 pi / 4) * R^2
= 3 AreaN
Who cares? Well, it turns out that the US and the USSR are both northern-hemidisc nations. They realize
(a) If the populace gets wind that the southern hemidisc is bigger, they'll realize that land is much cheaper there, and they will flee to South America and Africa. The US/USSR will have nobody to rule over.
(b) If nobody but they know the secret, then they can go on exploiting impoverished peoples of the southern hemidisc, who don't realize how big their countries really are.
It's clearly in their best interest to keep us in the dark about this.
-Erasmus