The earth is a spherical shape.

I would first thank con for putting effort into this debate which I at first accepted offhandedly and has now admittedly piqued my interest, however, I will now refute the points con has made and introduce a few of my own: 1) It is true that most of the time lunar eclipses cannot occur as the sun is out, but under special circumstances cab happen because of the atmosphere's refractive properties that causes the sun and moon to appear as if they are further up than they really are. You've clearly thought about this extensively so I'm sure you'll have time to look at these links so I'll leave some diagrams for reference here: . https://upload.wikimedia.org... . http://astronomyonline.org... . https://en.m.wikipedia.org... . https://en.m.wikipedia.org... . http://www.unexplainable.net... 2) The reason why the moon always faces the earth in the same direction is because its rotation speed is perfectly synced to its rotation speed around earth. The video could be fake or any number of effects added in post processing so I don't it's the best evidence. Commercialized flights to moon is tricky because it is of course enormously expensive to even consider operating so the investment sum would be in the billions, then we must consider the target market which is the top 0.1% and from that tiny number pick out the people interested in going to the moon. From that it's easy to tell that it's far too big a risk on investment for very little profit, if any at all, it will most likely operate at a loss. Despite these issues, apparently the russians have done it albeit only orbital because it would take even more fuel to reach the moon. I won't really comment too much on the moon landings as I think its not relevant and I don't rule out the possibility that it was faked at the height of the cold war. . http://scienceblogs.com... . https://en.m.wikipedia.org... 3) this one is difficult to record because it takes a really long time of sitting there with a camera that won't run out of battery and apparently no ones interested enough to really film a whole unedited segment to view the behaviour. Yes water normally finds a level surface because of gravity in space it goes everywhere, and if an object is round the gravity pulls towards the center thus giving water the properties you are describing. If atmospheric perspective was that dense we'd be seeing a grey blob. You also talked about the distance (which distance are you talking about up or side to side, it wasn't clear? ) and it being multiplied when closer to the earth but it wasn't very clear so I won't comment on it, feel free to clarify it. 4) I don't quite understand what you mean by the sun's rays being parallel so I'll skip that for now, please clarify if you wish. Humans are a coincidence, Pi is a coincidence, the gravitational constant is a coincidence, the universe is full of coincidences, this ones not a big one also I'll post an article with more detail. . http://www.universetoday.com... . https://en.m.wikipedia.org... 5. More is not the same as Clearer changing the fidelity in your vision does not affect how much you can see it only affects how clear you can see it. The model you showed is too small for the purpose of this, the earth is very large and we are very small relatively so the curve is much more subtle, thus it is inaccurate. 50 yards is barely anything, you can't notice the curviture at that distance. . https://en.m.wikipedia.org... 6. I can't really prove whether or not the lenses that are used are what curvature or whatnot and how concave/convex they are and neither can you, I do know though that wearing glasses( which are also convex/concave) does not affect how one views the world other than clarity. As for the planes, it is not a contradiction because a plane does not have the ability to reach escape velocity so gravity constantly pulls it towards the earth which means pilot's don't need to adjust. So your entire last point is completely false because of this reason. . https://en.m.wikipedia.org... 6) I have not used NASA as a source as of yet so I'll just say that NASA has both artist renditions and real photos and Idk how you've proved those photos are from NASA, you could have made them for all I know. 7) according to your flat earth diagram I'd need you to explain the lines better but I'll pose a few questions 1: How high up are the sun and the moon and how large are they according to this model 2: How would this model explain days and nights 3: what do the flat earthers think is at the world's edge? 4: why hasn't some random japanese fisherman sailed to edge while whale hunting? 5: I'm no meteorologist but from my understanding the earth has many complex seasonal climate changes that are caused by magnetism/ water temperatures and seem generally impossible base on a flat earth 6: what is the point of a conspiracy to cover up a flat earth? The bible? Christians are already the dominant faith in the world so that doesn't make much sense. 7: If I understand it correctly much of this debate has religious implications and I'll note that religion gets on my nerve so I apologize ahead of time if I come off as passive aggressive when I speak about it. End Rebuttal I think I've covered con's main points pretty clearly but please reiterate the points I have missed. Counterarguments 1) when bullets are fired from a long enough distance they are affected by the corialis effect. The corialis effect would only be possible if the Earth itself rotated. 2) if one believes in a flat earth how does one explain days and a sundial? 3) why hasn't anyone fallen off the face of the earth (literally) ? 4) if we are a flat earth, what does the sun and moon look like? In fact what does jupiter/saturn look like? 5) how do satellites perpetually stay up without any propulsion and just rotate around the earth?