Hey Ben. I love a good conspiracy theory as any other Bitcoiner, and dug into the flat earth theory to see what evidence is being presented. From what I can see at this point, the evidence is not compelling.
Are you aware that you can't see Polaris at or south of the equator? If the Earth were flat, you would be able to spot Polaris on any part of the Earth, at varying angles depending on how far away Polaris is.
Rockets launched from Earth angling towards the horizontal makes perfect sense to enter orbit. The path of a satellite orbiting Earth is tangential to the Earth's surface, so you have to build tangential speed to keep from falling back to the surface. Once your horizontal speed is fast enough, you fall with the curvature of the Earth and essentially remain in orbit (there is atmospheric friction which varies in strength depending on your altitude and will eventually de-orbit a satellite if not compensated for).
The experiments performed in "Behind the Curve" supported the globe theory, but we're ignored. In particular, the gyroscope showed a drift of 15 degrees per hour.
That being said, I don't believe were are being told anything close to the truth in general. There are very strange oddities about the moon. One such example is the depth of the crators on the moon are not consistent with the diameter of the crater. For a given impact diameter you would expect a certain impact depth. What is obersvable on the moon seems to indicate that there is a solid surface strong enough to blunt the depth of an asteroid impact.
I'm also not convinced we landed on the moon. The fact that all of the telemetry data, of what should have been the most important event in human history, was accidentally deleted? The press conference after Apollo 11 was very strange, to say the least. And I haven't seen any astronauts who claimed to land on the moon swear on a Bible saying so.
All that to say is I appreciate you digging into to stuff and I think we all should be doing the same. As far as the flat Earth theory goes, I haven't seen any solid evidence.
