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Well I’m not sure what happened, fren, but I’d like to help you see
Do you live near a large body of water? Somewhere that you can see over a span of water at least 15 or 20 kms?
What you want to do is stand on the coastline on a clear day and spot the most distant landmark/building and then measure your distance and calculate how much curve there should be
Assuming you have 20/20 vision then binoculars aren’t needed but bring them if you have them to really leave yourself no room for doubt
Earthcurvature.com or one of the many others available that have an input for your eye height
The 5 or 6 feet you’re off the ground makes a difference compared to the ground of course so may as well account for that to be as accurate as possible
Pay attention to what you’re seeing
At 20/25kms there should be over 100ft of drop but when I do this I see the entire distant landmark; 100% of it
There’s plenty of videos online showing city skylines and similar, that should be entirely blocked due to curvature
When the Chicago skyline across the lake video went viral, “they” tried to cover claiming it’s a mirage
Well, I’m not looking at a mirage when I do this and you’ll find that there’s no funny optics going on with your experiment either
You can hit google maps and right click your location to measure distance from your location and then again right click the distant landmark to measure the distance
Punch that distance into the earth curvature calculator and voila
Can’t be spun or shilled in any way, and you’re seeing it for yourself
No online videos to rely upon
I hope you can figure out that I’m not a robot, but, have a bleep bloop weekend, either way
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