After I figured out what this site was really about I have taken the stance of defending the FE model. It's kinda of challenging and makes you think. You also clearly see how the other side of the arguement (the RE side) is so richly based on what someone else told you.
Try it for a day or so. It's rather enlightening. But in reality, yeah, the earth is spherical.
And where does the knowledge of the ice wall come from?
For the FE model to be true, it would mean that MILLIONS of people are in on a GLOBAL conspiracy in which they gain nothing from convincing people the Earth is round. No extra money, no extra control, no extra power, nothing.
It's suggesting that millions of scientists are in on it. That they are let in on it, and don't blow the cover off it. That the government, for no reason, selected some citizens back in the late 80s, and put them on a space shuttle they planned to blow up.
It's suggesting that during the famous Space Race, during the Cold War, the Illuminati in control of this conspiracy decided who would be the first to get what/who where. Or maybe the Cold War is part of the conspiracy, too.
Now you're suggesting pilots are lying about taking people to/over Antarctica? And the people who have been to Antarctica are lying about it? The people who lived in my house before me travelled a lot. They had a big map with pushpins marking all of the places they had been to, and we talked about some of their travels (they'd been to dozens of countries and all 7 continents). Now, if the pilot was lying (or, giving some benefit of the doubt, lost), and they never actually visited Antarctica, I'd think they would have noticed since they were flying from Chile to Antarctica. Or maybe you could explain some route from Chile to the North Pole that's as short as the route to Antarctica.
Or are they in on it, too?
I understand the challenge in trying to scientifically defend something that has been scientifically proven to be false, I understand the exercise in trying to explain things differently, and for the most part you all do a very good job, but when you start saying "Conspiracy!" for most of your answers to people's questions, or "How do you know that? That's right, someone told you.", it doesn't seem very scientific, or logical or realistic, at all... especially when you refer to a 10 foot thick ice wall holding back ALL of Earth's water, that nobody has ever seen, so the only way you could say it exists is if "someone told you."