and even if it did, you don't think the Russians would've outed NASA by now? Putin lives to embarrass people.
that brings a few unanswered questions (of the 8 trillion). How is it no one has found the edge? Where is it? Why have people been able to circumnavigate the planet, if it's not a ball? What is at the edge? Why wouldn't water just fall off?
And, as I'm sure Nik can attest, most of the maps of the globe are inaccurate because the world isn't flat, so trying to make a flat map is difficult (which is why Greenland looks massive.)
They also change according to the country that makes them...you buy a globe in Taiwan and that tiny island looks really large on the map
My boss flies from PDX to Asia over the Pacific Ocean. He also flies from PDX to Europe over the Atlantic, then to Asia, then back to the US without going back over Europe. If the world were flat, how the fuck would that even be possible?