The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
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You most certainly did not explain it...
And it most certainly does matter... If you can't guarantee the levelness of the laser any measurements you take on the other side are invalid.
And I swear to god... if you respond with "nuhh, uhh I did explain it" and you don't link to your previous comment, you're getting blocked, cause your entertainment value is out the door when the annoyance factor reaches a certain level.
My point is were onto like the 3rd or 4th proof that the earth is a sphere.
If you get that laser perfectly level, I will accept your experiment and it will prove me right.
Show me what instrument they used to gauge the levelness of the line then.
Water is not a level.... Much less an open body of water with wind and waves.
Give me fucking break. That's even more retarded than thinking the earth is flat.
No, it's not within the margin of error at all.
Let's do the math...
https://www.calculator.net/triangle-calculator.html?vc=&vx=2&vy=&va=90&vz=126720&vb=&angleunits=d&x=Calculate
Angle A = 90 degrees (the target standing vertically)
Side B = 2 inches (a desirable margin of error)
Side C = 126720 inches (2 mile distance)
Result: Angle B = 0.00090429. (the angle of the laser on the 1st bank)
That means for roughly every 1/1,000th of a degree that laser is off, the dot on the other end will be 2 inches higher or 2 inches lower.
That's a range of 4 inches. That's an acceptable tolerance.
But the most accurate construction levels I could find boast an accuracy of 0.029 degrees. https://vinatools.de/70-nivo-spirit-levels/
So assume you use that tool and it tells you that the laser is level...
But really it's 0.029 degrees off from true level....
Now lets plug that info into the triangle calculator, and see what our margin of error becomes at a distance of 2 miles.
https://www.calculator.net/triangle-calculator.html?vc=&vx=&vy=&va=90&vz=126720&vb=0.029&angleunits=d&x=Calculate
Angle A = 90 degrees (target standing vertically)
Side C = 126720 inches (2 miles)
Angle B = 0.029 (the margin for error when using a construction level)
Result: Side B = 64.13876 inches (the margin of error you will get)
That means if the laser is off by just 0.029 degrees it will be 64 inches higher or 64 inches lower than your desired target.
That is a range of 128 inches that you can expect to be off in either direction when using a construction grade leveler.
Saying something stupid and then trying to flip the burden of proof onto me to disprove it?
Nope.... Not having it...
With this final piece of sophistry your entertainment value is officially gone. Consider yourself blocked.
And one more thing before you're blocked for good...
Here's a list of all the things you've been totally wrong about that I can remember.
1.) You said the horizon doesn't curve... It in fact does because it travels in a big circle and ends where it started. That's a curve.
2.) You said you can't observe the curvature of the earth... You can by verifying that the distance of the horizon gets farther away when you go higher up.... That is observing the curvature along one axis. Then you can observe it along another axis by verifying that no matter what height you go to the horizon will always be the exact same distance away in all directions.
3.) You denied the geometric tautology that every shape has an edge, and tried to define empty space as a shape.
4.) You told me an experiment for proving the earth is flat. And yet, you quickly back-tracked and attacked YOUR OWN experiment as invalid because you didn't like the lake I picked.
5.) You claimed that you can eyeball a laser pointer level to an of accuracy of 1/1,000th of a degree, and then put the burden of proof onto me to disprove it.
Just to put the stupidity of that into perspective, that is more than 5x as precise as the base of the great pyramid of Giza, which is renowned for being one of the most precise buildings ever constructed in human history.