I do not know where the disconnect is, so hopefully this will make you understand how the horizon rises to eye level, as all parallel lines moving away from you converges at a single point.
Then you accept that it reached the moon. So you accept that nothing blocks is path. So you accept that the moon is visible at all times from atop Everest? The disconnect is that you are trying to cherry pick only some of those things, when in reality they all go together.
I have not claimed that the laser hits the ground.
I can make you another drawing, to demonstrate this principal:
https://ibb.co/bKtGg9k
I do not know where the disconnect is, so hopefully this will make you understand how the horizon rises to eye level, as all parallel lines moving away from you converges at a single point.
Then you accept that it reached the moon. So you accept that nothing blocks is path. So you accept that the moon is visible at all times from atop Everest? The disconnect is that you are trying to cherry pick only some of those things, when in reality they all go together.