You can see boats disapearing beyond the horizon. if you dont belive maybe you should go look. i choose to belive the earth is round because i can SEE it
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You observe boats going out of sight because of angular resolution, atmospheric density, and perspective. If you extend your optical view with a telescope or camera, you can bring the boat back from 'over the curve'.
No, you can't. Ive spend a lot of time at sea and of coarse i have a scope. with something like a big sailboat or a container ship on a clear still day the horizon very clearly cuts it in half. sometimes you can see just the tip of a white sail but most days you cant even see that far. Idk what to tell ya man just go look at it yourself. its pretty cool actually
I have. If you have any interest in it, I recommend hearing out the problems laid out using some calculations to see why we have this position. Here's a timestamped discussion that addresses this point.
I watched enough to notice these guys math is WAY off. like really far off maybe someone forgot to multiply the 5280 to go from miles to feet idk. but if my line of site it 10' from the waterline and for the horizon to hide half a container ship ~50' it has to be really really far away not the 10 miles these braindead idiots are talking about. if your trolling than congradulations for wasting an hour of my time but if your serious i suggest you look into the properties of tangents its pretty simple
Their math is just fine, not sure what you mean.
