You have never seen the curvature of the Earth.
Not personally. Not with your own eyes.
You've seen photographs. You've seen diagrams in textbooks. You've watched footage from space — footage produced by agencies you have never visited, by people you have never met, using equipment you cannot verify.
And you believe it. Of course you do.
So do I.
But here's the question worth sitting with for a moment:
Why?
Not because you've tested it. Not because you've run the numbers. You believe the Earth is round for the same reason you believe most things — because the people and institutions around you told you so, and nothing in your life has given you a reason to doubt them.
That's not a flaw. That's how trust works.
But it's also exactly the opening that conspiracy thinking walks through.
In 1956, a man named Samuel Shenton founded the Flat Earth Society in England. He wasn't performing. He wasn't trolling. He genuinely believed that the scientific establishment had coordinated a deception on a planetary scale — and he spent his life trying to prove it.
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