Imagine a vast plane with but one tree smack in the middle. If the earth were flat, your vision would extend exactly as far while standing at the base of the tree as it would when at the top of the tree. However, the farther you climb, the farther your line of sight will extend to the horizon.

That's because parts of Earth that were concealed from view by its curvature are now revealed because your position has changed. Back to the vast plane. The naked eye can see objects that are millions of miles away in space. Theoretically, with a clear line of sight on a clear night, one would also be able to see bright lights from far-away cities. That this is not possible is further evidence of a round, not flat, Earth.

yes a TV show is the same as Nasa

According to a 2008 paper in Applied Optics by David K. Lynch, the curvature of the earth becomes somewhat visible at an elevation of 35,000 feet (with a >60° field of view) and more easily visible at an elevation of 50,000 feet. So if you're on the right commercial flight, you might be able to see the curvature of the earth with your own two eyes.

In the event that you're not high enough, though, you can still experience the curvature of the earth another way. For example, if you were to fly all the way around the world, you'd find that it would be nighttime in part of the world and daytime in another part. In that way, the existence of time zones itself is proof that the Earth is round.

Taken another way, you wouldn't even need to travel through different time zones. Time zones are wide enough that you will see the sun rising and/or setting later in the western part of a time zone than in the eastern part. According to the Farmers' Almanac, the sun will rise and set roughly four minutes later for every 70 miles you drive from east to west.

If you wanted to combine this experiment with the previous one, you could note how much more of Earth you can see when you begin your ascent into the air than you can while you are sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off.

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Earth is bloody round

no it is noot

dumbas

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soory me not very good at the english language

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Earth is a geoid

Pick a nice spot from which you can watch a sunset (we'll call this point A). Ideally, you'd have a clear horizon in front of you, and behind you would be some sort of elevated point that you can quickly access (a hill, a building with at least two floors, or perhaps the aforementioned tree; we'll call this point B).

Watch the sunset from point A, and once the sun is out of sight, hurry on over to point B. With the added elevation provided by point B, you should be able to see the sun above the horizon. If Earth were flat, the sun would not be visible at any elevation once it had set. Because Earth is round, the sun will come back into your line of sight.

If you don't have a hill, you could even try lying on your stomach to watch the sunset and then standing up to get a higher line of sight.

close enough to round

Earth isn't flat

When you can’t measure the curve of the earth, you’re simply talking bullshit.

earth seems like a cube to me

Do you have pics of the edge if Earth? @Derek Nelson

Or the flat Earth?

What if I do?

Not models

Only pics

@Derek Nelson send them

https://imgur.com/a/lknW43f this is how i see it

how do ships appear mast first on flat earth?

we are at the bottom and everything else is floating around in space

How does that detract from the argument you can’t prove earth curves?

Earth isn't flat @DoomCookie

ik

@Derek Nelson can you prove Earth flat?

the earth is flat

Thought so.

Can you?

he can't

it's obviously flat jeeez

@Super_Trooper prove it

@DoomCookie is a normal person. A normal person is someone who knows that the earth is bloody round

okay hold on