This is possible because the reason the distant boats cannot be seen without magnification/zoom is due to angular resolution limits. As a result, zooming in allows them to meet or exceed the angular resolution limits of the detector/receiver.
If the boats were “beyond the horizon” it would not be possible to zoom in on them as in the video.
do you actually understand how refractions and mirages work?
Angular resolution limits...hmm, thats a new one for me...
Really? I would have thought you’d encountered it before. It’s a fancy term for a simple thing. We can’t see really tiny things - like let’s say single animal cells or bacteria - without magnification. It has to do with the size and spacing of our receptors, and the “processing” from them. The same thing is true of the boat in your video. It is not that there is something in the way, but that the boat is too small for us to see (aka beyond our angular resolution limit) without magnification (the same as the cells and the bacteria and for the same reasons!).
Yes, actually, this is just fine logic, just using a weird term for focal range.
That’s basically right!
If we can see things that should be "over the curve", then its not possible that a curve is blocking the view.
Thus, the earth cannot be curved and must me flat.
This is where the error lies. The boat in your video isn’t “over the curve” yet. That’s why you can zoom in on it and see it again. When the boat is “over the curve” or some of it is obscured/hidden by that “curve” - zooming in won’t work.
We know that it isn’t a curve/hump/hill of water obscuring the distant ship - but most believe it is due to miseducation.
The observation shown in your video doesn’t depend on a flat or spherical (but effectively flat because of the scale we experience) world.
It’s roughly the measure of the angle difference between the light coming from the top of the object and the bottom of it as it enters the eye/reciever. If that angle is too small, we can’t resolve the image.
Resolution limits too
They are generally one and the same, and caused by the same thing - the physical concentration of light detectors and the method of processing the image.
Or just a pixel thing?
Same thing as the resolution limits above, just a different word.
I would say out of optical range when something is too small to see.
I agree, however the term i used also implies that the object’s light is actually still reaching the observer/detector - it just can’t be resolved into an object due to lack of adequate resolution.
The boat, which is about 5 miles or more out to sea, and still there is visable horizon behind it.
True.
So how could a curve be possible? Its not. Thus, earth must be flat.
In the view of the globe believers, the horizon and its ability to hide distant objects from the bottom up and reveal them from the top down as they approach is the curve.
In both their view, and ours - the boats in this video are not far enough out to be hidden by the horizon (which is itself an optical illusion, as well as the setting/rising phenomena of distant objects interacting with it). That is why we can zoom in and see them. When they are further than that point, and are truly hidden “beyond the horizon” - zooming in will not bring them back.
It is a logical error to assume that the ability for the horizon to obscure distant objects is proof of a globe. Likewise, and for the same reasons, it is also a logical error to assume that observations like this prove it flat.
They are still following politics like democracy is real
The tv/screens are bad for our health :( Especially if you believe what you see on them is true!
Anyway, it is my view that it is up to us who see to help the others - if we can. We’ll have to keep trying! Repetition works on everyone.
This is possible because the reason the distant boats cannot be seen without magnification/zoom is due to angular resolution limits. As a result, zooming in allows them to meet or exceed the angular resolution limits of the detector/receiver.
If the boats were “beyond the horizon” it would not be possible to zoom in on them as in the video.
I think so, yes.
Really? I would have thought you’d encountered it before. It’s a fancy term for a simple thing. We can’t see really tiny things - like let’s say single animal cells or bacteria - without magnification. It has to do with the size and spacing of our receptors, and the “processing” from them. The same thing is true of the boat in your video. It is not that there is something in the way, but that the boat is too small for us to see (aka beyond our angular resolution limit) without magnification (the same as the cells and the bacteria and for the same reasons!).
That’s basically right!
This is where the error lies. The boat in your video isn’t “over the curve” yet. That’s why you can zoom in on it and see it again. When the boat is “over the curve” or some of it is obscured/hidden by that “curve” - zooming in won’t work.
We know that it isn’t a curve/hump/hill of water obscuring the distant ship - but most believe it is due to miseducation.
The observation shown in your video doesn’t depend on a flat or spherical (but effectively flat because of the scale we experience) world.
It’s roughly the measure of the angle difference between the light coming from the top of the object and the bottom of it as it enters the eye/reciever. If that angle is too small, we can’t resolve the image.
They are generally one and the same, and caused by the same thing - the physical concentration of light detectors and the method of processing the image.
Same thing as the resolution limits above, just a different word.
I agree, however the term i used also implies that the object’s light is actually still reaching the observer/detector - it just can’t be resolved into an object due to lack of adequate resolution.
True.
In the view of the globe believers, the horizon and its ability to hide distant objects from the bottom up and reveal them from the top down as they approach is the curve.
In both their view, and ours - the boats in this video are not far enough out to be hidden by the horizon (which is itself an optical illusion, as well as the setting/rising phenomena of distant objects interacting with it). That is why we can zoom in and see them. When they are further than that point, and are truly hidden “beyond the horizon” - zooming in will not bring them back.
It is a logical error to assume that the ability for the horizon to obscure distant objects is proof of a globe. Likewise, and for the same reasons, it is also a logical error to assume that observations like this prove it flat.
The tv/screens are bad for our health :( Especially if you believe what you see on them is true!
Anyway, it is my view that it is up to us who see to help the others - if we can. We’ll have to keep trying! Repetition works on everyone.