The earth is an inverted sphere. The stars are lightbulbs on the other side of the inner globe. The Illuminati have been covering it up for thousands of years now, employing such ridiculous methods as time zones and massive optical illusions causing it to appear as though the sun sets, rather than the truth, that it turns out at night. Of, course, if this ever got public it would cause mass hysteria, since everyone can point nukes across the center of the world, straight from China to the US and vice versa.