Just how many organisations are involved in the conspiracy ?
All the space agencies over the globe, both government and private
All the cartographic industry
Every pilot
Every mariner
Every astronomer
All of the satellite industry
A fair number of Google employees
All the industries that make and use GPS
The balloon satellite launchers (and nobody has every spotted a football field sized balloon being launched !)
All of the web sites that predict sun rise and sun set, eclipse of the sun and moon, alignment of the planets etc.
I’m sure that there are dozens more that I’ve missed, and not one single person has ever spilt the beans ! Not a single photo of the plane, nor of the edge.
You forgot me!
I've been accused of being a part of the conspiracy at least three times now. :-)
* I've worked closely with NASA astronauts in the work I did for the Canadarm robot arm on the shuttle and the one on the ISS - also made a simulation of the view from the ISS cupola to demonstrate that there were important parts of the ISS structure that could not be adequately viewed from there.
* I use "GIS" (Geographic Information Systems) - which lean heavily on cartography.
* I've flown planes - both in reality and in flight simulators (which is what I do for a living right now).
* I'm a keen amateur astronomer.
* I haven't worked for Google - but I did do some contract work for them on "a project that shall not be named".
...I've also studied piracy at sea in the age of sail...very interesting to imagine how those crazy guys were pursuaded to keep their mouths shut about how navigation works south of the equator of a Flat Earth.
I believe you could make a good case for about 20% of the population of the world having to be a part of the conspiracy...at which point, you have to ask who they are really bothering to hide it from?