I don't need to rely on NASA, photos from space, nor anything that I can't verify myself to prove the earth is not flat. If every single scientist lied, and every single mathematician was secretly concealing the truth, I could still deduce using only math that has existed for 2000 years, and instruments that people had at the time, that the earth is in fact a sphere. Eratosthenes measured Earth's circumference in 240 BCE using two sticks and shadows. Ships disappear hull-first over the horizon. Different stars are visible at different latitudes. Lunar eclipses always show Earth's round shadow on the moon. Polaris changes elevation angle as you travel north-south. These observations are impossible on a flat plane but perfectly consistent with a sphere. Watch Orb

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The Greeks and Egyptians knew the planet was a sphere thousands of years ago. They measured the direction of the sun at different times of the year using obelisks. Were they just lying too?