As ridiculous as FE seems, prima facie, until it's proven false, I keep my mind open to plausible explanations for why:
A) the moon landings were all fake and we've never "been back"
B) there are no actual photos of the entire earth from space (unless you believe the sizes of the continents are changing by 30-60% every decade or so)
C) the only people on earth that we give billions of dollars to, to go to space, are faking any, let alone much (or all) of the footage, using green screens, parabolic "zero gravity" flights, actual hair spray to make their hair stand up, underwater studios (unless you believe in air bubbles in space)
You might say "but these items have better explanations than FE". Well let's hear those theories also. Let's not shoot down those who are proposing an outlandish, yet mostly comprehensive, theory, one that explains these anomalies as well as a plethora of others, like how did they use radio frequencies that don't even purportedly bounce off the ionosphere to communicate hundreds of miles during WWII, how can the horizon be seen above an item whose entirety should be hidden behind it, why is Antarctica, aside from a tiny portion, entirely off limits to most civilians, how was Felix Baumgartner able to slowly float up to nearly 30 miles without drifting a thousand or more miles because of the earth's rotation, etc.
Suggestions that these things are not even worthy of discussion, on a forum dedicated to conspiracy theories, have to be disingenuous.
Original Research
Let's not also forget that FE researchers are literally the only conspiracy theorists doing original research. These people will buy lasers that cost thousands of dollars, cameras, etc., and go to some large body of water (large lakes, bays, etc.) where they can test their hypothesis with an actual experiment. Everything else I see on here is pure speculation, or videos of interviews involving various professionals with dubious backstories (Malone, etc.).
Does it Matter
Pertaining the "would it even matter" argument, you honestly don't need a lukewarm IQ to imagine how much it would matter, if FE was real.
Principles
Most of us are here because we couldn't speak freely elsewhere, because "hate has no place on our platform" type communist bullshit. Now we're going to make the same kind of rules, especially banning arbitrary content that is desired by a clear majority, on a platform with already-existing mechanisms for getting rid of low quality postd (downvoting, hiding)? If FE posts are banned, this place is no better than TGA, and don't even pretend to be pro constitution when you can't even stand up for free speech about a conspiracy theory in a conspiracy theory forum.
I'm out of here, for good, if FE is banned. Aside from spam, illegal, doxxing, banning has no place on our platform.
It is. In many ways that are all rejected by FEers. They even reject independent verification by people who have sent cameras up on home built rockets into near LEO: one particular example where the stock wide-angle lens was removed from the camera due to the distortion it does to the image, and replaced by a lens that greatly reduces distortion, and the footage clearly shows the curve developing towards the end of the footage. That is rejected by FEers as a lie without evidence to back up that statement. Your defense of their ideas is profoundly misplaced. Also:
A = not evidence indicating the earth is flat
B = not evidence indicating the earth is flat
C = not evidence indicating the earth is flat
By all means, please make posts about these topics, but if you call them part of the "proofs" of a flat earth you are flat out wrong. Lmao.
It sounded like they considered A, B, and C very good reasons to question our cosmology, rather than irrefutable proof. They even asked for your explanation of A,B,C if you think flat earth is BS. I honestly find it shocking that people wouldn't question spinning-orbiting-in an infinite vacuum-globe earth, for those reasons.
Just as a thought experiment, if you found out one day the earth is flat and domed, how would it make you feel? Obviously there would be foundational beliefs to address. -Relativity, big bang, evolution are all false -We have a devine creator (who is he?) -Most of everything I was taught was programming -there are satanicly evil people and entities that perpetuated this delusion.
What implications would you experience and would you find it disturbing? Just humor the question and take it seriously, any midwit could come up with a sarcastic and dishonest response.