First off. FET is not a theory, it is a religion. You guys practice it with a frantic attitude, trying to 'convert' people into your point of view. This is not a proper scientific fact. You are basing you're 'theory' around the fact that the Earth is flat, and going outward. You need to collect evidence first proving, definitely, that the earth is flat, and then start a theory.
You're following it blindly. It's all tinged with a huge amount of 'CONSPIRACY THEORIEZ' craziness. You're not accepting FET as a theory, you're accepting it as a pure fact that MUST be true and everyone else's view is wrong.
Also, I have a question: Satellites. When rockets are sent (into the atmo, according to you), where do they come down? Considering they're up their for a very long time. In fact, we (supposedly) have objects in permanent orbit. Like the Space Station. I'd like to know how FET explains that.
I agree, the FET has the blind faith, nonsense science, baseless claims, unanswered debate-stoppers, unfounded anthropocentrism and biases of evidence common to all theologies. That fact that this is a near religion is probably why there is little listening to reason.
Why FE?
Because of some experiments done by a pseudo-scientist and published in a non-peer reviewed book with no result replication by other, more reputable, scientists. Also, why not FE?
It is illogical to base an opinion on simply on the fact that all counter-evidence can be refuted. Without positive evidence FOR a theory, the theory should not be viable.
Here is a stupid, nonsense theory with just as much supporting evidence (an just as much refuting evidence) as FE:
I could say that a great purple dragon called Bessie lives under the ground under the North Sea who speaks fluent German, owns a goldfish and enjoys the work of Ernest Hemingway. You can't detect her because she lives on a different plane of existence to us, she exists in some of the other 6 dimensions predicted by string theory and only her farts can pass into our 3 dimensions (note the pseudoscience).
OK, there is no way to prove that Bessie doesn't exist but do I have any evidence for my theory?
Yes, I do as a matter of fact. Bessie explains why there are natural gas in the North Sea. Her farts, because they are made of the elementary particle the Bessie's Boson, can travel between dimensions like a graviton. They fuse into ordinary matter which happens to be natural gas when they come into contact with anti-Bessie's Bosons which are present only in our 3 dimensions, and are universal like the Higg's Field.
Nonsense, isn't it? But like I say, it's just as viable and just as irrefutable as FET.