Message from @jlegend
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When you are standing on the beach and looking into the distance, the farther you look, the more shallow the angle becomes. Once that angle of light bouncing of the objects in the distance hits .02 degrees, the light becomes unresolvable. Think of a boat as trillions of photons of light coming to your eye. When that light hits a certain angle, it's not longer resolved
@jlegend your last comment. that's the reason the globe gives. Its assumed. It is not science. Its just an assumption based of thinking you live on a ball. No measurements, nothing.
Based on my reason
The correct reason
We live on a round earth
And I hate to tell you but its incorrect
How is it incorrect
If you would like to show me your direct scientific measurements. I might believe you.
I'll be waiting.
But I'm not just going to take your word for it
I've seen zero evidence for a globe
I have some measurements telling me its flat
You can prove it using observation
Go to the ocean and look at the ships leaving
If the world were flat as you say then the ships would not be visible only from the top.
What abt Eratosthenes study
I think flat earthers say it also works with a small and local sun, idk how true that is though
Ffs are you dumb
Where he saw the sun shining directly above syene but in alexandria the Alexandria that didnt happen
How am I dumb @Citizen Z
Il get you more info to read so maybe you will understand
You have assumptions as of now based on old history
We now know those ideas are wrong
It's not old history
Boats dont go over the horizon
That's a myth
It was an acient discovery proving my point
Myth
No.
You can see it
It's not going over a horizon
It's the way light works
In different surfaces the sun hits at different angles
Bc we are on a flat surface
You are not listening
Firstly
OPTICS
This is how angular resolution works physically in the eye.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/459802853524111361/1_EN.png
Cameras work the same way.
The cones of the retina is a zoom in of the eye. If the angular size of the target is not enough to activate more than a single cones/sensor the object is unresolvable.
There are 3 ways to decrease angular separation.
1. Move the two separate targets further or closer together.
2.Increase the distance.
3. Change the angle of view.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/459805458644074511/angseperation.jpg
First here is a demonstration of how angle of view changes the angular separation of 2 targets. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/459806914331541504/unknown.png
For example in this image, as the stop sign's angular size shrinks from distance or angle, the image that prjected onto the retina also shrinks. Eventually it will reach such as small size the eye can not physically detect the light. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/459808085436006410/refraction_cornea.png
A geometric analogy would be closing a pair of scissors. When the scissor tips are closer together than the spacing between the rods and cones of the eye then you get to see the target. The point where the tips cross from too close to normal vision is the angular resolution.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/459817803038326784/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/459818062858682368/65116694_resized550bbc_sg_g4_eye.png
When the angle of view becomes to much it pretty much goes parallel, but you lose sight of the ground before that. It's the same on the globe too but even worse because the angle of view is increasing quicker because of the curving away of the ball surface.