Thomas Cook Airlines are part of the conspiracy. It's true.

Leaving from Manchester to Cancun the flight was over Ireland, Iceland, South of Greenland, Nova Scotia and all down the coast of the US (New York looked pretty). Also saw a few Caribean islands which you can recognise on Google Earth.

That's a curved line How much are they paid to travel the longer route?

Then I got a rubber band, cut it so as to get a rubber string and stretched it from Manchester to Cancun on a globe.

What bothers me is why is this happening. Is it the fundamental inability of the feeble minded to understand three dimensions or is there some other factor involved.

Living in a world full of science flunkies? I think so.

The earth is a spheroid. I have measured it myself with surveying instruments.

Yes, you are to more than "believe" it. KNOW it. Apollo 8 went around the moon, and on the way there, they took a picture of the world being spherical in shape.

Provide a rational reason for your not thing that!

Please provide evidence to support your comment.

Why is everybody:

Cowardly troll.

Troll. An actual flat-earther would have responded by now. He just wanted to work everyone into a tizzy by posting something outrageous, then sit back and watch how hard we work to refute his absurd message. Thing is, I am curious how actual flat-earthers "reason" their position. Roger, our discussions here are mostly academic and for our own enjoyment, so no skin off our noses here.

Hmmmm.... to each his own, or her own!

I am almost sure the earth is absolutely flat-ish....otherwise how come I can stand on skates and automatically roll? Or or or, what about marbles....if the world was 'round', you would have to chase those marbles around while you were trying to play....big blue marble, I THINK NOT!!!! 6,000 years ago, when the earth was griddled, and we all rode dinosaurs, we started this 'round' idea....what a bunch of marooooons, we were...

No dumb people living in this world, I don't think so

Certainly not. The solar system's path through the universe is not a spiral.

Nope.

Hard to believe is it not

Ha Ha!