Flat Earth = No Space Travel

NASA is part of a conspiracy using their space program to uphold the premise
that the Earth is round. Space travel is impossible and photos are doctored.
Jack W. Administrator Flat Earth Forums, 2008 (The Flat Earth Society, Flat Earth FAQ,
Dec 12, http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11211.0, Accessed: 6/22/11, SL)
Q: "What about satellites? How do they orbit the Earth?" A: Since sustained spaceflight is not possible,
satellites cannot orbit the Earth. The signals we supposedly receive from them are either
broadcast from towers or any number of possible pseudolites . However, temporary space-flight is
possible. Space Exploration and Government Q: "NASA and other world space agencies have pictures of the Earth from
space, and in those pictures the Earth is clearly a globe; in this day and age, hasn't it been proven beyond any doubt that the
Earth is round?" A: NASA and the rest of the world's space agencies who claim to have been to

space are involved in a Conspiracy to keep the shape of the Earth hidden. The pictures are
faked using simple imaging software. Q: "Are you saying NASA had Photoshop in the 1960s?" A: Of course
not. Back then the pictures taken were of far lower quality and were likely produced using analog means. Q: "Why has no
one taken a photo of the Earth that proves it is flat?" A: Only those connected to the Conspiracy have access
to heights from which the shape of the Earth can be discerned . Also, nobody has been to the
edge of the Earth and lived; conditions on the Ice Wall get increasingly treacherous the further
you get out, and navigation methods become unreliable that far south. It is also possible that
the Conspiracy is guarding the edge to prevent people from getting too close to the truth. Q:
"How did NASA create these images with the computer technology available at the time?" A: NASA did not send

rockets into space; instead, they spent a fraction of their funding on developing increasingly
advanced computers and imaging software to cover their lies. PLEASE NOTE: This means that
pictures confirming the roundness or flatness of the Earth DO NOT CONSTITUTE VALID
PROOF. Q: "What is the motive behind this Conspiracy?" A: Although their main objective can only be
speculated upon, the most favored theory is that of financial gain. In a nutshell, it would logically cost much
less to fake a space program than to actually have one, so those in on the Conspiracy profit
from the funding NASA and other space agencies receive from the government. Q: "If you're not
sure about the motive, why do you say there is a conspiracy?" A: Well it's quite simple really; if the Earth is in fact flat, then
the space agencies must be lying when they say it isn't. Q: "No one could possibly pull off such a conspiracy successfully."
A: Actually, they could. Q: "How are the world governments organized to carry out this conspiracy?" A: Only those

governments with space agencies that have actually been to space and produced round
pictures of the Earth need be in on the Conspiracy. And even in those cases only a limited
number of people within those governments need necessarily be involved. For the most part, even
those in the highest positions of these governments are probably unaware of the Conspiracy .
Q: "Why has this site not been shut down by the government?" A: Not enough people take this site seriously for it to be
perceived as a threat by those involved in the Conspiracy. Shutting it down, however, might open them up to suspicion. Q:
"There's no way the government could possibly guard the entire Ice Wall! It would take too many men! Millions of men!"
A: Not really. You could do it with a few hundred men and some basic equipment. But even so there's no reason to assume
the Ice Wall is guarded; the harsh conditions of the region make it very difficult to reach anyway. Q: "Why is NASA's space
shuttle runway curved?" A: It was specially constructed by NASA to be so. After all, NASA is at the heart of the

conspiracy.

Earth is flat and covered by a dome no space travel possible oceans prove
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The
Flat Earth Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
Water. Regardless of which train of thought you follow, it covers over seventy-five percent of our
planet's surface. And the atmosphere, also a fluid, covers the entire surface. The difference is why.
While flat-Earthers know that the ocean is really just a large bowl, (with great sheets of ice
around the edges to hold the ocean back), and the atmosphere is contained by a large dome,
the backwards "round-Earth" way of thinking would have you believe that all those trillions
of gallons of water and air just "stick" to the planet's surface.

Flat Earth = No Space Travel

NASA is a lie, the earth is flat, and space travel is impossible
Schadewald, President of the National Center for Science Education, 1980 (Robert J.,
The Flat-out Truth: Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! Says This Prophet Science Digest,
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm, SL)
"The facts are simple," says Charles K. Johnson, president of the International Flat Earth
Research Society. "The earth is flat." As you stand in his front yard, it is hard to argue the point.
From among the Joshua trees, creosote bushes, and tumbleweeds surrounding his southern
California hillside home, you have a spectacular view of the Mojave Desert. It looks as flat as a pool
table. Nearly 20 miles to the west lies the small city of Lancaster; you can see right over it. Beyond
Lancaster, 20 more miles as the cueball rolls, the Tehachepi Mountains rise up from the desert floor.
Los Angeles is not far to the south. Near Lancaster, you see the Rockwell International plant where
the Space Shuttle was built. To the north, beyond the next hill, lies Edwards Air Force Base, where
the Shuttle was tested. There, also, the Shuttle will land when it returns from orbiting the earth. (At
least, that's NASA's story.) "You can't orbit a flat earth," says Mr. Johnson. "The Space Shuttle
is a jokeand a very ludicrous joke." His soft voice carries conviction, for Charles Johnson is
on the level. He believes that the main purpose of the space program is to prop up a dying myth
the myth that the earth is a globe. "Nobody knows anything about the true shape of the
world," he contends. "The known, inhabited world is flat. Just as a guess, I'd say that the dome
of heaven is about 4,000 miles away, and the stars are about as far as San Francisco is from
Boston." As shown in a map published by Johnson, the known world is as circular and as flat as
a phonograph record. The North Pole is at the center. At the outer edge lies the southern ice,
reputed to be a wall 150 feet high; no one has ever crossed it, and therefore what lies beyond is
unknown. The sun and moon, in the Johnson version, are only about 32 miles in diameter. They
circle above the earth in the vicinity of the equator, and their apparent rising and setting are
tricks of perspective, like railroad tracks that appear to meet in the distance. The moon shines
by its own light and is not eclipsed by the earth. Rather, lunar eclipses are caused by an unseen
dark body occasionally passing in front of the moon. Johnson's beliefs are firmly grounded in the
Bible. Many verses of the Old Testament imply that the earth is flat, but there's more to it than that.
According to the New Testament, Jesus ascended up into heaven. "The whole point of the
Copernican theory is to get rid of Jesus by saying there is no up and no down," declares
Johnson. "The spinning ball thing just makes the whole Bible a big joke." Not the Bible but
Johnson's own common sense allowed him to see through the globe myth while he was still in
grade school. He contends that sensible people all over the world, not just Bible believers,
realize that the earth really is flat. "Wherever you find people with a great reservoir of common
sense," he says, "they don't believe idiotic things such as the earth spinning around the sun.
Reasonable, intelligent people have always recognized that the earth is flat."

Flat Earth Proofs No Orbit

The Michelson-Morley experiment illustrated that the earth is stagnant in space
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The
Flat Earth Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
In classical physics, ether was assumed to be a ephemeral substance which permeated all
matter. This omnipresent medium was that through which visible light and other electromagnetic waves were supposed to
have traveled. It was assumed to have qualities which now seem rather bizarre - too bizarre, in fact, to be allowed to exist, by
Efimovich's teachings. So in 1887, two American scientists, operating under the Efimovich-based

assumption that the Earth was moving through outer space and not the fixed center of the
Universe, conducted an experiment to "prove" whether or not ether actually existed. In this
experiment, the general idea was to try to calculate the absolute speed of the earth relative to the fixed ether. In a sense, they

would emit a light pulse, and calculate how far it "trailed" behind the earth, much like tossing
a napkin out the window of a moving car to calculate the car's speed. It was assumed that, if
ether existed, the light pulse would fall back in one direction, giving the physicists a tangible "absolute"
speed of the earth. Their calculated speed: Zero. Yes, scientists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W.
Morley were baffled by this, wondering how the Earth could be sitting in one spot, while every aspect
of the teachings of Grigori Efimovich indicated that the planet must be orbiting its own sun, and therefore must be moving at
least with a critical orbital velocity. Moving quickly to avoid having to admit that they were wrong, they were able to
instead "infer" from their results that the ether must not exist, and that light must propagate through no
medium at all (impossible for a wave by the very definition of a wave). Their inference was generally accepted by the
scientific community (save a few notable exceptions, including Hendrik A. Lorentz) and the "ridiculous" notion of ether was
thrown out. But light waves would still require a medium for transmission, and the actual purpose of the
experiment was to determine the existence of that medium. The results speak for themselves: the Earth does
not move. And even if the Earth did, the problems inherent in keeping it moving through this light medium called ether are
overwhelmingly supportive of "Flat-Earth" theory.

Because of the ether, the earth cant orbit

Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The
Flat Earth Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
In the Efimovich model, the planet Earth is supposed to be a large, spherical shaped ball of
rock flying through space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. But how could the Earth
continue to move at the same speed for as long a time as the "round Earthers" say that it has existed for; namely, several
billion years. If outer space were a vacuum, then there would be no problem. But space is not a
vacuum, it is instead filled with ether. The earth would have to have been pushing its way
through the ether for all those billions of years. Shouldn't it have slowed somewhere along the line? What
would keep the Earth from grinding down to a stop at some point on the Efimovichian timeline?

If the earth was orbiting around the sun, everything on the surface would be thrown
off
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The
Flat Earth Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
A second critical piece to the Efimovich model is that the Earth is not the center of the solar system either. It is,
according to "round Earth" theory, orbiting the sun at a radius of around five-hundred
million kilometers. Were this the case, the Earth would be an accelerated object in circular
motion around its sun. And thereby are the problems introduced. The Earth accelerating in circular
motion would behave no differently than would a car taking a corner: loose objects (humans
and animals would act like loose change or a cup of coffee on the dashboard) would slide
around, or be thrown off completely. There would be an apparent centrifugal force on
everything. During the day, when things would be facing the sun and therefore on the inside of the "orbit",
buildings would be crushed and humans beings squashed like grasshoppers in a centrifuge .
And at night, when everything would be at the outside, trees and buildings would be ripped from the
ground and flung into outer space, and humans wouldn't stand a chance . Obviously, there is a flaw in
Efimovich's "orbit" theory.

Flat Earth Proofs No Orbit

If the earth was orbiting around the sun, only the north and south poles would be
inhabitable
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The
Flat Earth Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
Using the "round Earth" theory, setting an object on the earth would be like setting grains of
sand on a beach ball. Certainly a few grains would stay - right around the top, the surface is nearly
horizontal - but when you stray too far from the absolute top of the ball, the grains of sand start
sliding off and falling onto the ground. The Earth, if round, should behave in exactly the same
fashion. Because the top is a very localized region on a sphere, if the Earth were in fact round, there
would be only a very small area of land that would be at all inhabitable. Stray to the outside
fringes of the "safe zone", and you start walking at a tilt. The further out you go, the more you
slant, until your very survival is determined by the tread on your boots. Reach a certain point, and you
slide off the face of the planet entirely. Obviously, something is wrong.

If the earth was round, the oceans would fall off the surface and evaporate
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The
Flat Earth Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
Conventional thinking would suggest that the water would just run down the sides of the
Earth (to use the analogy again, like droplets running down the sides of a beach ball) and fall into
outer space, while the air would dissipate. Using the earlier mentioned idea of "gravitational
charge" gives some credibility to the theory. If the fluids were static, then exposure to the
gravitational field for a long enough period of time would allow their molecules to align
themselves with and be pulled in by the field. But fluids are not static, especially not in the
atmosphere and oceans. Great ocean currents run both at the surface and deep below,
carrying water across huge basins, keeping the solution far from stagnant. Jet streams of air
travel at hundreds of miles per hour through the atmosphere. And windblown rainclouds
carry vast quantities of evaporated seawater across miles of ground, releasing their load far
from its starting point. Water or air that (according to "round-Earth" theory) starts on one side of
the planet could end up completely on the other side in a matter of only a few days. With all this
turbulence and motion, if the world were round, the oceans should all fall "down" into the
sky, leaving the planet dry and barren, and the atmosphere would simply float away. Why, just
look at the moon. It is round, like a ball, and yet it has no atmosphere at all.

Flat Earth Proofs United Nations

The UN insignia proves that there is a movement to declare the earth flat again
Schadewald, 1980 (Robert J., The Flat-out Truth: Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! Says This
Prophet Science Digest, http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm, SL)
"It's the Church of England that's taught that the world is a ball ," he argues. "George
Washington, on the other hand, was a flat-earther. He broke with England to get away from those
superstitions." If Johnson is right, the American Revolution failed. No prominent American politician is known to have
publicly endorsed the flat-earth theory in the past two centuries. Nevertheless, Johnson contends that this nearly happened
right after World War II, not for the U.S. alone, but for the entire world. Consider the United Nations: "Uncle Joe ( Stalin),
Churchill, and Roosevelt laid the master plan to bring in the New Age under the United
Nations," Johnson discloses with confidence. "The world ruling power was to be right here in this

country. After the war, the world would be declared flat and Roosevelt would be elected first
president of the world. When the UN Charter was drafted in San Francisco, they took the flatearth map as their symbol." Why declare the world flat? Johnson responds that a prophesied condition for world
government (Isaiah 60:20) is that the "sun shall no more go down." This could be fulfilled by admitting that
sunrise and sunset are optical illusions. The UN did adopt for its official seal a world map
identical with the one on Johnson's office wall. But Franklin Roosevelt died coincident with the UN's birth,
and the other imminent events described by Johnson never came about. What did happen, according to conventional
historians, was that Russia and the U.S. began space programs. After the Russians sent up Sputnik in 1957, the space race
was on in earnest. The high point came in 1969, when the U.S. landed men on the moon. That, according to Johnson, is
nonsense, because the moon landings were faked by Hollywood studios. He even names the man
who wrote the scripts: the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. But he acknowledges that the moon
landings were at least partly successful. "Until then," he says, "almost no one seriously considered the world a ball. The
landings converted a few of them, but many are coming back now and getting off of it." Perhaps the Space Shuttle is
intended to bolster the beliefs of these backsliders. Whatever its purpose, Johnson is convinced that
it is not intended to actually fly. Because it was built and tested almost in his back yard, he knows many people
who worked on it. What they've told him about some aspects of its construction only reinforces his convictions. " They
moved it across the field," he sneers, "and it almost fell apart. All those little side pieces are on with epoxy,
and half fell off!" The Shuttle had other problems besides heat resistant tiles that wouldn't stick.
For instance, when the testers tried to mount it on a 747 for its first piggy-back test flight, it
wouldn't fit. "Can you imagine that?" chortles Johnson. "Millions of dollars they spent, and it wouldn't fit! They had to
call in a handyman to drill some new holes to make the thing fit. Then they took it up in the airand some more of it fell to
pieces." If the Shuttle ever does orbit on its own, it's supposed to return to Edwards Air Force Base. To Johnson, that's
appropriate enough. "Do you know what they're doing at Edwards right now?" he asks. "'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' is
made right where they claim they're going to land the Shuttle. Edwards is strictly a science-fiction base now.
"Buck is a much better science program, considerably more authentic. In fact, I recommend that the government get out of
the space business and turn the whole thing over to ABC, CBS, and NBC. The tv networks do a far superior job. They could
actually pay the government for rights, and it wouldn't cost the taxpayers a penny." Flat Earth Society members are working
actively to bring the Shuttle charade to an end. They hope to force the government to let the public in on what the power elite
has known all along: the plane truth. "When the United States declares the earth is flat," says Charles
Johnson, "and we hope to be instrumental in making it do so, it will be the first nation in all
recorded history to be known as a flat-earth nation. "In the old days, people believed the earth

was flat, because it's logical, but they didn't have a picture of the way it was, as we have today.
Our concept of the world is new.

AT: But we know it is Round

The only reason we believe the Earth is round is because its deeply ingrained in our
culture. The claim is actually dishonest and unscientific.
Shenton, 2009 (Daniel, In Defense of the Earth Earth Not a Globe 1 Exhibit,
http://www.earthnotaglobe.com/library/daniel_shenton_flat_earth_essay.pdf, SL)
The Earth is flat. This is a belief I hold as the beginning of an ongoing search for truth and certainty. It is a starting
point - an intellectual foundation on which I feel further knowledge can soundly be built. Much as
Descartes did in his Meditations on First Philosophy, I wish to start from a place of certainty and build upon it. The Flat Earth
is an obvious truth to me now. My senses show me and my reason confirms it. However, my belief that the Earth is flat is not
a popular one and it is not a belief I have always held. Like most people, I was taught from an early age that the Earth is a
rotating sphere which, along with a collection of other spherical bodies, revolves in an elliptical orbit around our Sun. To
most of you, this will seem like an obvious and unarguable fact. It is something you have been told by teachers. Told by
parents. Told by textbooks. It is something you are utterly sure of. And, more than likely, it is something you have never truly
investigated. It isn't surprising, then, that people believe so strongly that the Earth is a sphere. We are bombarded every day of
our lives with information. Television, radio, books and the Internet all compete to tell us things. Society agrees that some
ideas are worth debating and that others are not. The idea of a spherical Earth falls into that second category. At some point,
our society decided with great certainty that the Earth is a sphere and, consequently, that further consideration is unnecessary
and anyone holding an opposing viewpoint is unworthy of debate. That the Earth is spherical is a 'fact' and we

are, from an early age, told to accept it without question and in the face of our own first-hand
experience. But as 16th Century mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace stated, "The weight of evidence for an
extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness." The Spherical Earth model is
truly extraordinary and runs contrary to all of our senses . Consequently, the burden of proof is
extraordinary - and this burden has never been met. But, because the idea is so firmly
ingrained in our culture, few of us bother to hold the Spherical Earth model to account. This
tendency to firmly maintain beliefs while intentionally disregarding opposing evidence particularly evidence in the form of first-hand experience -is intellectually dishonest and unscientific. Man's
quest for truth is furthered only through experience and reason. During the 19,h Century, Samuel Birley
Rowbotham pioneered an approach to astronomy called Zetetic Astronomy. Zeteticism stresses the
importance of reason and experience over the trusting acceptance of dogma. This emphasis on
experience as the only source of true knowledge dates back to ancient Greek empiricists such as
Aristotle and was also prominent in the more recent British empiricism espoused by [ohn Locke. In his An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding, Locke states, "No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience."

The earth is flat based on the translation of the Bible

Hare, founder and architect of the Sacred Text Archive, 2005 (John Bruno, Preface to The
Earth is not a Globe Ebook, http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/, SL)
Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat. The contients float on an infinite ocean which
somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. The lands we know are surrounded by an infinite
wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by an immense circular icecliff. What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth. The polar projection of the flat
earth creates obvious discrepancies with known geography, particularly the farther south you
go. Figure 54 inadvertantly illustrates this problem. The Zetetic map has a severly squashed South
America and Africa, and Australia and New Zealand in the middle of the Pacifi c. I think that by the
19th century people would have noticed if Australia and Africa were thousands of miles further apart than expected, let alone
if Africa was wider than it was long! The Zetetic Sun, moon, planets and stars are all only a few
hundred miles above the surface of the earth. The sun orbits the north pole once a day at a
constant altitude. The moon is both self-illuminated and semi-transparent. Eclipses can be

explained by some unknown object occulting the sun or moon. Zetetic cosmology is 'faithbased', based, that is, on a literal interpretation of selected Biblical quotes. Hell is exactly as
advertised, directly below us. Heaven is not a state of mind, it is a real place, somewhere above us. He uses
Ussherian Biblical chronology to mock the concept that stars could be millions of light years
away. He attacks the concept of a plurality of worlds because no other world than this one is
mentioned in the Bible.