This primitive belief still lingers on, when the evidence for a spherical earth is overwhelming:
(a) photographs of the earth from space (I use photoshop professionally and there is no way any of those pictures can be photoshoped.)
(b) astronauts from Gagarin onwards who have completed one or more orbits of the earth and seen it with their own eyes
(c) mariners who circumnavigated the globe, from Ferdinand Magellan onwards who did not fall of the edge of the world when they did this
(d) the shape of the earth's shadow as it crosses the face of the moon during a lunar eclipse
(e) the curvature of the horizon evident when you are at sea and see another ship approaching or disappearing from view
(f) the daily practice of international air travel and Steve Fossett's 2002 circumnavigation by balloon and 2005 circumnavigation by plane without stopping for refuelling.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF A SPHERICAL EARTH
Eratosthenes determined that the earth was a sphere and calculated its rough circumference by the third century B.C.
Aristotle provided observational evidence for the spherical Earth, noting that travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon. This is only possible if their horizon is at an angle to northerners' horizon. Thus the Earth's surface cannot be flat.
By the time of Pliny the Elder in the 1st century, the Earth's spherical shape was generally acknowledged among the learned in the western world.
The evidence is, as I say, overwhelming.
Most of it was gathered centuries before our current government.
THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY
So give me a REAL argument not a half-baked one and without any true facts.
P.S A lot of the images are broken on the website, can seem to find a good coder ether?