CAN EARTH REALLY BE FLAT?
Here is a page from a book that presents such a concept. I personally never really looked into it because of beautiful curvy geometry found in ancient architecture, crop circles, etc. However, semantically speaking - earth can be a block of metal, and only an illusion of a sphere is available visually.
10.0 EARTHQUAKE
Here we look at a frame from the movie in 2014. Toblowsky here is carrying a bag which looks very similar to these flat earth models. Now it could be a spacecraft, a TR-B for example - or something else. I leave it up to you.