You misunderstand me. I know all about Admiral Byrd and Antarctica and the Antarctic Treaty. As much as we are allowed to know by every government in this world, anyway.

I know that every government lies to the people. And every government in the world can't agree on anything except this one issue? How curious.

We have "nukes" aimed at each other all the time, but no one has ever dared to break the treaty and explore forbidden territory on the off-chance they find abiotic oil, or aliens, or Hitler riding around in a flying Volkswagen/liberty bell? Not even a dangerous "rogue state" like North Korea? Fascinating.

I watched this and I think I understand your objection now. We can call it "this earth" or "the world" or the firmament, if you like.

The previously prevailing “geocentric” flat model had placed the Earth as the immovable center of the universe with the Sun, Moon, stars and “planets” all revolving over and around us, just as they appear. Heliocentrists simply added a "t" to the end of our level Earth plane and started claiming it was a "planet."

My question is what are the wandering stars/planets? Are they alive? Are they like the ancients thought, the souls of dead heroes looking down on us? Has anyone independently tracked the night sky and seen sudden changes which persist over a long period of time? Dubay notes that stars move and change colors all the time; is there tracking data for this, verified with video footage? Do new wandering or fixed stars ever appear? Have FE researchers ever tried to build telescope lenses to rival or exceed whatever NASA uses? Has anyone ever infiltrated an observatory, looked through the telescopes, and examined the equipment at length?

Is it possible to fly to the local sun? What happens if you try? Can we communicate with them? What is the meaning of solar and lunar eclipses if the sun and moon are local objects? If there is a "dome" above us, why is it there? To keep the waters of heaven out? Is the Earth a prison? A bastion?

I don't expect answers to all of these; they are merely rhetorical. But, I would like to know the answers.

planet etymology:

Perhaps it is from a nasalized form of PIE root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread," on the notion of "spread out," "but the semantics are highly problematic," according to Beekes, who notes the similarity of meaning to Greek plazein "to make devious, repel, dissuade from the right path, bewilder," but adds, "it is hard to think of a formal connection."