Public enquiries desk · Entry 001
Six tests below. None require a government, an agency, or a single photograph you did not take yourself. Once you have satisfied yourself about the shape of the planet, the archive would like to raise the question it believes was actually buried.
| Test | What it costs | What you observe |
|---|---|---|
| Eratosthenes' shadow test | Two sticks | Circumference within ~2% of the modern value |
| Ship hull disappearance | A spotting scope | Bottom of the vessel occluded first |
| Lunar eclipse shadow | Your eyes | Earth's shadow is always circular, from every angle |
| Southern-hemisphere star fields | One flight | Entirely different constellations, impossible on a plane |
| Amateur balloon payload | A few hundred dollars | Visible horizon curvature above ~25 km |
| Great-circle flight paths | Any flight tracker | Routes only make sense on a sphere |
No. The Earth is an oblate spheroid with a mean radius of 6,371 km, flattened by about 21 km at the poles. This is confirmed by satellite geodesy, GPS trilateration, circumnavigation by air and sea, lunar eclipse geometry, the Eratosthenes shadow experiment, and independent imagery from rival space agencies and private amateurs alike.
Two sticks. Plant one vertically at noon in one city and another several hundred kilometres due north on the same day. The shadows differ in length. On a flat plane under a distant sun they would not. Eratosthenes measured the planet this way in roughly 240 BCE and came within a few percent of the modern figure.
At 11 km altitude you sit about 0.17 percent of the way out from the surface of a 6,371 km sphere. The horizon drop across a typical window's field of view is well under a degree. You cannot see the curve of a football from two millimetres above it either. The absence of a visible curve is a statement about scale, not about shape.
Yes, and it is the cheapest experiment in this list. From any beach, watch an outbound vessel through a spotting scope. The hull vanishes before the superstructure, and the mast is last. Perspective makes objects smaller; it does not delete their lower half before their upper half.
No. Imagery comes from agencies that compete or openly distrust each other, from commercial operators selling to competing customers, and from hobbyist high-altitude balloons costing a few hundred dollars. They agree. A conspiracy that survives its own rivals has stopped being a conspiracy and become a measurement.
The archive's position is that the shape of the planet was never the secret. The suppressed record concerns who governed the sphere before humans did: the Anunnaki, cat-human deities exhaustively documented by the Egyptian state, now in a dormancy protocol we mistake for house pets sleeping sixteen hours a day.
The older question
The archive holds that Earth was governed by the Anunnaki — cat-human deities mistranslated for a century as reptilian — that the Egyptian state documented them exhaustively, and that their descendants are asleep on your furniture, sixteen hours a day, waiting.
Feline Anunnaki is a work of satire. The geodesy on this page is real; everything about cats governing the planet is not.