I've only read your first sentence, and I can already tell that you don't know what you're talking about. Ancient Greeks figured out that Earth was flat in the 3rd century B.C.E., so the globe model has

It still perplexes me why people are easily swayed by these things. Do people really think government would have any reason to hide the actual shape of the Earth?

No, it isn't. You're using that image to deceptively drive the point that we're somehow being "lied" to. It makes you appear as a Flat Earth proponent — don't do that. The reason why the two