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Go test the curve for yourself
Spot a distant landmark over water and then calculate how much curve there should be
No pictures needed
It’s neither a globe nor spinning
Look into it
So I can take a powerful telescope to the East coast and see Europe?
Unfortunately no, at some point you’re going to be limited by atmosphere no matter how big of an optical zoom you have
Im not sure how far that is but it’s likely in the range of a few hundred kilometres
We can use technology to see through the atmosphere with a laser or something but I don’t know really anything about that and can’t test for myself either
I've watched ships "sink" over the horizon as they travel to other continents. I've also observed the northstar not being visible while in the southern hemisphere, due to it being over the northern horizon.
Vanishing point
Perspective
These things are 101
Any FAQ flat earth video covers these obvious questions
We were miseducated.
The primary reason for both of those phenomena is not the shape of the earth, but the density gradient in our air.
I recommend watching, or better yet - doing, some demonstrations on light/lasers into density gradients to understand better the path the light takes from the distant sources (as well as why it stops reaching you, and where it goes).