I would like to know what the government has to gain by lying to people about the shape of the earth. Some people say it's for money but that doesn't really make any sense. Besides in 1969 it would have been cheaper to actually go to the moon than to fake it. For me as a person it doesn't mean that much to me if the world is round, flat, a cube, or whatever. The point being it doesn't matter. So if the world were flat, why would anyone care enough to lie about it.