I have a couple of questions...

Eratosthenes knew that on the summer solstice at local noon in the town of Syene on the Tropic of Cancer, the sun would appear at the zenith, directly overhead. He also knew, from measurement, that in his hometown of Alexandria, the angle of elevation of the Sun would be 7.2° south of the zenith at the same time. Assuming that Alexandria was due north of Syene he concluded that the distance from Alexandria to Syene must be 7.2/360 of the total circumference of the Earth. The distance between the cities was known from caravan travellings to be about 5000 stadia: approximately 800 km. He established a final value of 700 stadia per degree, which implies a circumference of 252,000 stadia. The exact size of the stadion he used is no longer known (the common Attic stadion was about 185 m), but it is generally believed that the circumference calculated by Eratosthenes corresponds to 39,690 km [citation needed]. The estimate is over 99% of the actual distance of 40,008 km.

Hey guys, I have a couple of questions regarding the FE theory. Sorry if I make any grammatical mistakes, I'm not really bilingual.

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You seem to be better than most Round Earthers.

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1. I've read some answers to the question "why would the governments make us believe the earth is flat? How do they benefit?", but I haven't found a valuable answer. It sounds like you guys are convinced the FE theory is true, and you're just trying to find excuses about the government.

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6308&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=categorical+conclusive+conspiracy+compendium&start=0

Theoretically, the conspiracy is an "excuse," but it's a necessary one.

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2. If there are no satellites, how do satellite cellphones, radio and television work?

Other highflying (but sub-atmosphere) vehicles, radio towers, etcetera.

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3. According to the FE map, the distance (for example) between the south tip of south america and the south tip of africa is bigger than the "regular" distance? I've once flew from Stanley to Cape Town, and the distance was about 6,300 km ( 3,900 miles ), wich is the distance on the round earth.

Well, that's one of the theory's flaws, but I believe the running theory on that is that the conspiracy is responsible for making it seem as if the distances are the same. It's not really solid, I know, but it's what we have for now.

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4. How do you explain the following measurement of the earth, by Eratosthenes, at around 200 B.C.?

He was using measurements that are paralleled by the flat Earth model. Thus, they were correct, just for incorrect reasons.

~D-Draw

And you have to understand the FE-world:
FE'ers are allowed to just say 'Hum, maybe, hm, it could be like that...' to explain their theory.
When RE'ers say something it must be perfectly clear and proved without any doubt.

The thing is, you're just giving me simple answers, but it doesn't work without proofs. You need to prove me how satellite cellphones, satellite radios and satellite televisions work, you can't just mention other possibilities.

And for the distance thing, how could they make the distance shorter? I've been in a plane during the flight, and it took about 8 hours to get there, wich means the distance was actually 6300 km, considering the fact that a plane goes to 800km/h.

You're trying to make me believe that all the governments would work together, hack computers and telescopes, fake all the photos, make plane flights faster or longer depending on the distance, pretend to go to space and make up bogus events only for benefits that aren't real, and all that is an EXCUSE? Spending billions of dollars only because they don't want us to know, because that would embarass them?

Same thing for the Eratosthenes theory, prove me with numbers and measures that he was wrong, I proved it, prove me your idea.

And how do you explain the fact that when you look at the sea and a boat is coming towards you, you see it appearing from the top to the bottom, slowly as it comes towards you?