Ok, let me just say from the start that I am RE. Firmly so. But if you could present solid evidence, FErs, in your favor, then I may just believe you. Also, please don't reference FAQ, because I have read it many times.
First of all, let me just say that the amount of work required to pull off this "hoax" of a round earth would be far greater than the fiscal benefit of doing such. Imagine all the photos to fake, sets to build, mapmakers to bribe, astronauts to brainwash, and tricks to pull. And what would they get out of it? Almost nothing.
Now let's dive into the problems of a flat earth. Everybody with any brains at all knows that on a perfectly clear day, looking out over the ocean, you can see the mast of a boat coming toward you before the body. This can only be the case in a round earth. Think about it. Also, because the earth is round, on that perfectly clear day, you can see no farther with a telescope than you can with the naked eye. If the earth were flat, you should be able to see all the way to the ice walls/dams.
I'm no stranger to the ocean, and have traveled to many bodies of water all over the world. I have trouble recalling this happening with a ship, at least comparatively to the far more oft occurrence of a ship fading out, of which I can easily bring to memory many instances. Not that I discount the apparent experience and similar ones, which I have witnessed - just that I discount the notion of a "perfectly clear day", especially when considering the typical nature of air above large bodies of water.
That said, this is described in our models by either aetheric eddification or the more documented and popular "Bendy Light" hypothesis.
Now I'm sure this has been brought up before, but what about Foucault's pendulum? The pendulum that demonstrates the earth's rotations? Are all of those fake? Are they all part of the conspiracy?
Actually, building a foucault pendulum that is accurate is an almost impossible feat, if done fairly. Quite often instead a foucault pendulum will be magnet guided to have any hope of receiving an intelligible result. Its simply a hard to deal with experiment.
The rotations however found by a correctly set up pendulum are actually, in many flat earth models, the rotating reference frame of either the earth, or the heavens above and their gravitational influence.
And what about the sun? I saw how they explained it in FAQ, which still makes no sense. Every evening, the sun appears to "set" below the horizon, and if the FE model of the world holds, this would mean that the sun somehow goes below the earth. Now please don't give me that bs about the sun being too far away to see, you and I both know that's ridiculous. By the FE model, when the sun is below the earth, all of the earth is dark. And we all know that isn't true. Half is dark while the other half is light. Explain that, please.
I don't know of any modern FE model that holds the sun dips below the earth or even that states it moves horizontally such a grand distance.
Also, about not ever being able to reach the speed of light, that's junk science. Particles have been made to go 99 percent that speed, and if they were physically able to accelerate more, they would reach the speed of light. The speed of light, 186,000 MPH roughly, is a fixed speed, that would be reached if the earth were to accelerate as FErs propose it does.
If they were physically able to accelerate more, they would still not theoretically, at least according to relativity, reach light speed but instead some fraction of the difference between their current speed relative to an observer and light speed.
I have many more concerns with FET, but don't have time to right them down. Answer these please!
Thanks!
Also never discount the minds job; It builds us a model of the surrounding world to make useful various sensory inputs. The untrained mind will see what it wants to much of the time. This is known as "Conventional Sight".
We have received hundreds of reports of people discerning curvature at sea level on a beach, or by eye from a low flying airplane. These are paradoxical when we realize that Round Earth models unilaterally damn such accounts as nonsense. It would seem that if we expect to see something, we will more or less fool ourselves into seeing it. This effect can be so profound that if we wear lenses that flip our field of vision horizontally, the mind will eventually correct for this. It takes the data that fits its hypothesis, first and foremost. Consider the amount of junk information you have to ignore without knowing it on a daily basis.