Ok, so I have been reading these forums off and on (mostly off) for almost 2 years. Aside from evidence being presented on how the earth is round and the usual "well you see there are 10000000 co conspirators in on it." The one question I have is:
Who benefits from lying about the earth being round? I was reading one of the intro posts which stated that "greed" was a reason but I don't know about that. Also, does this Web site have any sponsors or making any money by keeping this going? Because that would be my first guess.
Thank you.
UPDATE: Sorry I just noticed the "flat earth shop" and all the advertising. Someone definitely is making money.
Thank you.
I don't think anyone around here is making money from flat earth, there are some selling books and monetizing their youtube accounts. I doubt it's enough to buy a packet of chips once a month.
But that wasn't your question. Who benefits from the conspiracy. That's a question for a flat earth conspiracist to answer. But since they are all out to lunch at the moment, I'll try.
1. Money, evidently someone makes lots of money faking the space programs of 50 or so countries.
2. Power. a global jewish/masonic conspiracy hides the true shape of the earth to retain power and control. (Eric Dubay)
3. Control, a secret society of shape shifting alien reptiles has us in a global truman show type snow globe for unkown purposes ( Mark Sargent )
4. Unknown, there is a conspiracy, but it is so clever and evil that we don't know what it is or who is behind it other than, they organized 911, holohoax, nuclearhoax, round earth hoax, space program hoax, satellite hoax, south pole hoax. many more I forgot.
That's just my view, ask a flat earther and they'll be sure to enlighten you.
PS.. Here's what this site's Wiki has to say on the matter.
The motive for 'The Conspiracy' is unknown (unlike the existence of 'The Conspiracy', no specific motive necessarily follows from the FET) and as such it is open to speculation. However, financial profit is the most commonly assumed motive.
'Profit'
Usually considered to be the most likely motive, this suggests that NASA is primarily an embezzlement front. The conspiracy spends millions of dollars in bribing astronauts, faking photographs, and other ways of faking space exploration, but NASA's budget is in the billions, so the conspirators still receive a large profit yearly.
'Not hiding anything at all'
It is also possible that NASA does not actually know that the earth is flat and since its inception has simply been faking the concept of space travel, never bothering (or unable) to go any farther than the edge of the atmosphere. The earth is portrayed as round in NASA media because the general public already believes that it is round.
NASA is mistaken about the earth's shape, just like many others are, and reflect that mistake when putting together its fake space missions.
'Military dominance'
The US Government and its European allies have a large interest in investing untold millions of dollars into hoaxing space travel because it gives a superior image to the rest of the world. Once a country has the technology to reach orbit it can also scare off aggressors and send ICBMs raining down on its enemies at the push of a button. Creating the illusion of space travel is critical to national security of a first-world nation, whether it is actually possible or not.