So let me get this straight. You won't read anything more than two paragraphs, regardless of how much proof the content holds. Based on that statement, you are no longer allowed to quote or base any of your arguments on any of the sources that have been cited to those who believe in a flat Earth, as they are all well over 2 paragraphs. In fact, "The Earth: Not a Globe," written in 1881, is over 400 pages of size 12 font. Half of the so called "experiments" in it do not work, but were not proven because nobody had the time or resources to do so in the time period that they were written.
USA and Russian were at each others throats during the "Great Space Race". If at any point either on the countries, or any other for that matter, had said to the rest of the world, "Hey the world is flat, your egg-head government is lying to you." They would've been bathed in power and trust.
Your all basing your facts, whether you realize it or not, off a guy who died almost a hundred years before the first person was launched into space. Who's work wasn't published until more that 5 years after his death. Going into space has proven the Earth is round many times. Especially if we use the cracked gravity explanation that you give. Planes and rockets wouldn't be able to fly because the ground would, by some mystical force empowered by you own theory that the Earth is constantly moving upward, eventually get hit by the ground as it moved "up".
NASA is not the head of the conspiracy. As a matter of fact, at the time the book was written, NASA didn't even exist. Anybody who want to know what NASA does, go to Kennedy Space Center and find out. It is asinine to say that NASA is the leader in the conspiracy because NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is a National organization funded by the United States Government. It didn't begin until after Russia launched Sputnik in 1957. If anybody had the makings of a secret conspiracy it was Russia.
Furthermore, whether you believe that we've been to the moon or not, NASA launched Apollo missions well in to the early 1970's. Over 100 people have been sent into space from NASA alone. There are almost 50 other National Space Agencies worldwide, each independent of the others. They won't even share newfound information without having all the legal rights put into their name on it. And even then they have trouble with it.
As far as Antarctica, I guess we'll all know soon enough this July 2007 in the "Live Earth" concert set to take place on every continent of the Earth. But the arguments of the Ice wall is nothing but a joke. Don't try to feed me crap about how it can work, because anybody with a job and a dollar to their name will tell you that it cannot. Cashiers get paid as low as $6 an hour. You know what? They hate it. There is hardly enough money that can be offered to them to make them want to do it. And all they have to do is smile and ring up customers products. Some of the highest paid jobs in the world wouldn't go sit on a giant iceberg in the middle of nowhere for the rest of their lives. For a couple of different reasons.
First of all, there isn't any company. No friends, family, or anybody except the other "Ice Wall guards". And nobody wants to hang out with the people they work with for more than 8 hours a day, let alone the rest of their lives.
Second, suppose you can offer them up enough money to sit on a block of ice, guarding this so called "secret". Where are they going to spend it? Penguin casinos? Strip clubs? Penguin strip clubs? They live in Antarctica. There aren't any General Stores. The cable guys don't come out that far, and the weather is to crappy for satellite dishes. The television signal doesn't reach that because the Earth is round and there aren't any towers to broadcast the signal. So they don't get local programming either. So there forced to play monopoly all day, except they can't find the dice, and there isn't a Games Workshop or a Wizards of the Coast for miles. And the last KB toys just went out of business because Santa lives at the North Pole, not the South.
So, we have no entertainment and worthless money. What else? Oh yeah, how about some food? The only wild life in Antarctica is penguin, seal, and algae. Why?
Reason number Four: It's fucking cold. The climate never reaches above 40 degrees, and gets as low as -130. If there are any "Ice Wall guards" they're all trying to snap there frozen piss free so they can walk away. With temperatures that low, your looking at almost instantaneously freezing yourself to the ground with your own urine anytime you take a leak.
Then there's the hypothermia, sunburn, frostbite and a whole mess of other temperature related messes. Not to mention the location of the nearest hospital. You think ambulance fees are high? Better hope your insurance covers helicopters. And with the price of gas today, I doubt it.
So, in your FE you have all sorts of "Ice Wall" guards frozen to the ground by their own piss and covered in frostbite. They're hungry, cold, thirsty, tired, bored and damn near dead. You want to go see the edge of you world? Just walk past. There is nothing there but the other half of the globe.