Have you ever been outside before?
It's great that you link me a webpage but I can just go outside and look across the span of water in front of me
This isn't difficult
What you want to do is stand on the shoreline and pick out the most distant landmark/object you can view from where you're standing
Google Maps > right click your location > measure distance from here > right click your distant landmark > measure distance to here
Then enter that distance into any of the freely available earth curvature calculators available online, some will allow you to input your altitude which should be appx. the distance between your eyes and the ground below your feet
Bring binoculars if you have them to see even further and really hammer this home for yourself
Pay attention to what you are seeing
How much of the distant landmark are you observing? All or nearly all of it? Does that reconcile with the amount of curve there should be at that distance?
When I do it, I am still seeing 100% of the distant landmark appx 20kms away from my reference point
There should already be about 100ft of drop and so the bottom 100ft of my landmark should be obscured from view but not only am I seeing all of it, the landmark itself isn't even 100ft tall so the fact that I'm seeing ANY of it, doesn't reconcile
I can go on about eclipses, gravity, crepuscular sun rays, coriolis effect, or how no one has ever been to the moon, but the distant landmark observation is a good place to start for most as it can be performed with the naked eye and without any links to webpages with documents, testimony, or videos
Go see for yourself
I can link you plenty of videos with examples of much further distances than my 20kms I can quickly observe for myself, but just go see for yourself
Have you ever been outside before?
It's great that you link me a webpage but I can just go outside and look across the span of water in front of me
This isn't difficult
What you want to do is stand on the shoreline and pick out the most distant landmark/object you can view from where you're standing
Google Maps > right click your location > measure distance from here > right click your distant landmark > measure distance to here
Then enter that distance into any of the freely available earth curvature calculators available online, some will allow you to input your altitude which should be appx. the distance between your eyes and the ground below your feet
Bring binoculars if you have them to see even further and really hammer this home for yourself
Pay attention to what you are seeing
How much of the distant landmark are you observing? All or nearly all of it? Does that reconcile with the amount of curve there should be at that distance?
When I do it, I am still seeing 100% of the distant landmark appx 20kms away from my reference point
There should already be about 100ft of drop and so the bottom 100ft of my landmark should be obscured from view but not only am I seeing all of it, the landmark itself isn't even 100ft tall so the fact that I'm seeing ANY of it, doesn't reconcile
I can go on about eclipses, gravity, crepuscular sun rays, coriolis effect, or how no one has ever been to the moon, but the distant landmark observation is a good place to start for most as it can be performed with the naked eye and without any links to webpages with documents, testimony, or videos
Go see for yourself
Have you ever been outside before?
It's great that you link me a webpage but I can just go outside and look across the span of water in front of me
This isn't difficult
What you want to do is stand on the shoreline and pick out the most distant landmark/object you can view from where you're standing
Google Maps > right click > measure distance from here > right click your distant landmark > measure distance to here
Then enter that distance into any of the freely available earth curvature calculators available online, some will allow you to input your altitude which should be appx. the distance between your eyes and the ground below your feet
Bring binoculars if you have them to see even further and really hammer this home for yourself
Pay attention to what you are seeing
How much of the distant landmark are you observing? All or nearly all of it? Does that reconcile with the amount of curve there should be at that distance?
When I do it, I am still seeing 100% of the distant landmark appx 20kms away from my reference point
There should already be about 100ft of drop and so the bottom 100ft of my landmark should be obscured from view but not only am I seeing all of it, the landmark itself isn't even 100ft tall so the fact that I'm seeing ANY of it, doesn't reconcile
I can go on about eclipses, gravity, crepuscular sun rays, coriolis effect, or how no one has ever been to the moon, but the distant landmark observation is a good place to start for most as it can be performed with the naked eye and without any links to webpages with documents, testimony, or videos
Go see for yourself
Have you ever been outside before?
It's great that you link me a webpage but I can just go outside and look across the span of water in front of me
This isn't difficult
What you want to do is stand on the shoreline and pick out the most distant landmark/object you can view from where you're standing
Google Maps > right click > measure distance from here > right click your distant landmark > measure distance to here
Then enter that distance into any of the freely available earth curvature calculators available online, some will allow you to input your altitude which should be appx. the distance between your eyes and the ground below your feet
Bring binoculars if you have them to see even further and really hammer this home for yourself
Pay attention to what you are seeing, as well
How much of the distant landmark are you observing? All or nearly all of it? Does that reconcile with the amount of curve there should be at that distance?
When I do it, I am still seeing 100% of the distant landmark appx 20kms away from my reference point
There should already be about 100ft of drop and so the bottom 100ft of my landmark should be obscured from view but not only am I seeing all of it, the landmark itself isn't even 100ft tall so the fact that I'm seeing ANY of it, doesn't reconcile
I can go on about eclipses, gravity, crepuscular sun rays, coriolis effect, or how no one has ever been to the moon, but the distant landmark observation is a good place to start for most as it can be performed with the naked eye and without any links to webpages with documents, testimony, or videos
Go see for yourself
Have you ever been outside before?
It's great that you link me a webpage but I can just go outside and look across the span of water in front of me
This isn't difficult