Chicago viewed from Michigan 60 miles away. Supposedly a "mirage"
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I used to live on the IL/WI border, about the supposed distance the OP picture is from Chicago. You could see Chicago across the lake on a clear day, and it didn't look like this. You saw to tops of the Sears Tower, the Hancock building, and not the whole skyline.
Press X for doubt for me on this picture.
Yawn.
https://liberalnewsreview.com/2021/12/21/a-one-degree-deviation-due-to-so-called-curvature-of-the-earth/
Hate linking anything with that title. But the drop at that distance is almost unnoticeable. Except clearly there are almost no small buildings. Only skyscrapers in the above. But that's also the zoom or lighting.
Here is the amount of curvature that should be blocking Chicago at a few different observing heights, from 60 miles away.
Observing 10 feet above water = 2100 ft of obstruction.
Observing 25 feet above water = 1936 ft of obstruction
Observing 50 ft above water = 1758 ft of obstruction
The sears tower is the tallest building in Chicago at 1451 ft (plus its base is slightly higher than Lake Michigan, but this is not very significant)
So as you could see even the top of the sears tower should be hidden by hundreds of feet of curve obstruction depending on the height of the observer above the lake.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature
Nonsense. I linked a less than 1 degree drop. Study math. Dumbass.
Stop spewing garbage. Read the link.
The drop after around 69.17 miles is a degree. 1 degree of curvature, and it equates to next too nothing. Hardly seen by the naked eye. 500ft looses about 1.89ft, at that distance, less than 2 feet. Read the calculations linked.
Those aren't my calculations. I looked online, trying to find why you monkeys are claiming such irate projections. I stumbled across the previous link. It was so simple a monkey could understand it. 360 degrees make a circle, divided by the Planetary circumference. Producing a one degree drop at every 69.17 miles. It amounts to fuck all. Not noticeable.
Where do you dumb fucks come from. You've all fallen out the stupid tree. You're stating Everest disappears off the horizon. Because you fell out the stupid tree. No it doesn't.
Ok let me get this clear. If the Observer is 60 miles from the sears tower, and he is 10 ft above lake Michigan, how much of the sears tower will be blocked by earth curvature? Let's assume the sears tower is 1451 ft above lake Michigan even though it's slightly more. What do your calculations come up with?
I'll get my popcorn for your answer
I'm not saying you are wrong, but you may want to view this again with the assistance of binoculars or a telescope because this could simply be the result of the limits of the human eye. As a Mariner I am often able to bring vessels back into full view with binoculars that appear to be sinking into the horizon with the naked eye.
All I'm saying, is that picture is not from 60 miles away at the height of person.
I checked the dude's facebook, he takes them from an elevation from St. Joseph, MI, which is about 60 miles, as the crow flies, across the lake.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=534475571361605&set=a.206037660872066
Check out this news report, and then the vid afterwards. The cameraman seems to have very high zoom and is able to see chicago on a day thats slightly hazy. I dont know how high above the water he is but he appears to be pretty low.
https://youtu.be/SADAiC6DNFg
Well this kinda makes sense doesnt it. You see the same effect when you stick a pencil in a cup of water. Seems like the air, if it were humid enough could have the same effect.