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Just a thought experiment, let's say the earth is flat, looks like many professionals would know, including

  • Pilots/ATC/sea captain

  • Land surveyor and civil engineers

  • Astronomers and Geologists, at least the one dealing with experimental data

  • Militaries, at least radar operator and artillery

Just these categories are already a lot of persons, I assume I miss a lot of others. So how many person does it make in total ? 10 % of the population ?

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The guards that patrol the ice wall.

Entirety of NASA. Entirety of NOAA. Meteorologists. Cartographers. Everyone who works on Google Earth. Every engineer who works on satellites, rockets, and planes. Physicists.

However, I do think 10% is probably too high an estimate. While these are a lot of people in a lot of areas, they represent pretty small demographics each.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't you assume that their family would know and be in on it? I was gonna suggest it has to be more than 10 percent. Since it's not a life or death conspiracy like the Manhattan project I would assume a lot of those people 'in on it' would tell spouses, best friends or even older kids. If you knew a huge secret like that would you want your close loved ones to be lied to and indoctrinated into a false truth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

If you're in on the biggest conspiracy in the history of the world, you don't tell anyone about it. There are CIA agents who live their entire lives without their spouses knowing they work for the CIA. How much more powerful must the round earth agency be than the CIA to maintain such a conspiracy for thousands of years? I don't want to say illuminati, but it sounds an awful lot like the illuminati.