Message from @7 Hells
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(Digs three holes)
There is your curve everyone! Go home and keep hugging your globes!
What's this?
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No, you just have to dig it. Its the same effect you get by measuring shadow length, but the sticks seem easier, imo
I dont see how that can be faked
You like my hair? Gee, thanks, just bought it
I would ask for the source but...
but if you have access to a balloon and some helium, you could observe the curve by raising and lowering it from across a lake
As I always say you really don't need to go into so much detail with this stuff
Just one argument and that's all
Optics!
.02 degrees is the angular resolution of the eye
He used a camera
Cameras work the same. Derp
The are a lens!
who told you that
They have angular resolution
Citizens right
yes, but its improved, its not the same as the eye
Once the angular resolution hits a certain degree, the object(s) become unresolvable
Its optics
Read James Gibson. 1952.
But thats not what happened in the video. He raised a balloon up til he could see it across the lake with his naked eye. Then when he zoomed in with the camera, it was still just above the horizon with his camera zooming in all the way too it. I think he said it was 10 miles away, and it was attached to at least 25 feet of string, which wasnt seen by the camera or his eye.
And theres more
A rising balloon will work the same..you just see further as you rise in elevation due to the angular resolution
Imagine looking at your tv from center view. Then imagine putting your head against the wall and trying to watch it
He did it again with a longer string, and that one had flags attached. He let it go really high, then measured how much of the string was missing, first with binculars, then again with the pictures from his camera, with different zoom obviously
Why can you see more of the right wall than the left?
You are further from the right wall..closer to the left wall. Yet you see less of the left wall
hmm
And again
how can 3 different views of the object, with different zoom capabilities, give you the exact same effect, if the effect was supposedly due to the angular resolution of the device or eye?
The closer you are to the ground, the less you see
Especially over miles