Because the circumference is calculated to match spherical geometry rather than euclidean. On a flat earth, we would have to get different results

But that's the point @Technomatrix light doesn't bend down in air around a ball, it's seen bending up towards the sky, warm air is below, cool air is above, snell's law. The refraction models DISCARD snells law

Light would have to do this

It doesn't

That would defy diffusion

it would defy lapse rate

Again, it depends on the conditions. Sometimes, it can bend over

I have witnessed extraordinary weather conditions where the light stops bending up

That laser should be under 20 meters of missing curvature

I saw direct contact with the beam

I knew that day there is evidence of apparent mostly local flatness under certain weather conditions

That light would only need to bend a fraction of a degree to make up for that drop. I don't think it is absurd for that to be happening in these cases.

If you're willing to have a conversation about concave sea over a spherical earth resulting in local flatness I am happy to discuss this

@Technomatrix So please show me photographic or scientific evidence of light bending down in air

dm it to me, if it is of scientific merit I will post it and debate it

if it's a dinosaur disc with a flaming rock then no

this entire server is literally a troll already

I might be able to find a good example of a superior mirage, I'll look

@Probably Parker I haven't yet met a heliocentric flat earther

i have literally 0 ideas what that means

The Earth does not revolve around the sun https://youtu.be/lM0SCyZMcnM

@Lil nugget They want direct photographic observation of that

I'm just here to have a look at some tards who think the Earth is out there looking like a pancake

@Probably Parker heliocentric means the sun is the center of the universe and the Earth revolves around the sun, the michaelson morely experiment debunked this

Ah well then

Heliocentric means I am correct

and you are an idiot

@Probably Parker Do you have scientific evidence that the Earth revolves around the sun?

Yes, superior mirage @Lil nugget

Do you have proof it doesn't?

yes Michelson–Morley Experiment

that's one experiment

Airy's failure

Yes he did

You know Aristotle shot him down when he threw an apple up in the air and caught it and claimed the Earth was at rest

Yall prolly got held back a year or two

What u boys think about the usage of the N WORD

Yikes

So they adopted the Pythagorean/Ptolomaic Geocentric globe for the longest time

Should people be able to use the n word freely or no?