The lack of real photographic evidence gets meYou simply believe that ALL photographic evidences showing a round earth are faked , because you think that the earth is flat . That ' s all there is to it . For example , without even knowing the specification of the cameras or the lenses , you will always say that a picture showing a curved horizon is fakefisheye , and you will always say that a picture showing a flat horizon is real and impossible to fake . This is not based on some particular skills that you developped to understand if a picture is distorted or not . This is just cherrypicking the evidence that you accept and the one that you do not accept . The fact that you do not realize your own bias is particularly worrying . distrust of our governmentThere is a huge difference between distrust of the government that I completely and fully understand and distrust of the entire scientific community . There are millions of scientists around the world . Not a single one of them believe that the earth is flat . Do you think that they are not openminded enough to understand flat earth ? These guys are working at the edge of our current knowledge . They try to understand things that we don ' t understand yet . Their entire job rely on having an open mind . You may wanna get a bit more paranoid yourself with the things that are happeningNone of the things you are talking about has anything to do with the shape of the earth .