Message from @skaffa yippa
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Could say he is deflecting π
anyways, gravity is a theory. you can measure it. great. i can measure the speed of a car but if i dont look under the hood i dont know whats running it
<@484198784901840897> Are you suggesting in this instance, the moon is a mirage? π
i know a clock tells us time. if i never looked inside one would i know how it worked?
He is deflecting
@DrPeper i got the joke
does light bend up then back down to your eyes thousands and thousands of feet?
@DrPeper is so punny. π
cuz thats what you propse with no working model
Yup
That twas the idea
of course it is'
so gravity does it?
Lol
you dont see ships floating in the air
Jadon. Ships are not floating on the horizon. π
they are still level from you, at eye level
Itβs the Flying Dutchman!!! π
you see a mirror effect
a fata morgana
With a bag o weed
On the horizon
@skaffa yippa As you wish
π
@The Gwench sounds spooky
No spoopy here please
Is the discussion here usually about flat earth?
@skaffa yippa What do you think of your name now? π
Eeeek
@HyperBaroque no. We like to talk Conspiracies
A lot
Like dirty filthy commies
However, because flat earth is one of our conspiracies, we attract many bully-like trolls...globules that is. π
And hobgoblins
Lol
this is certainly reflection You can see a horizon line behind the boat https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/533407941412388871/ship-fatamorgana-600x319.png
I mean, I do consider flat earth a validly discoursible conspiracy. I just don't consider it good debate because I can't be convinced the earth is flat, and I've already been in to the hilt with all the flat earther tactics, so for me it's only really worthwhile when the flat earther crowd comes up with a new one.
A new tactic. π€
It is generally accepted that mirage is formed when temperature of the ground surface, in a flat area like desert, is higher than the temperatures of the over ground air layers. In this case, light emerging from a distant object makes total internal reflection in the air layers and forms the image of the object that is called mirage. Our investigation on mirage formation in desert indicates that there is no meaningful relation between mirage formation and temperature change over the ground. In addition, we show that, the interference of the lights reflected from different air layers destroys the coherency of the image forming light. This happens because the temperature change occurs in an interval larger than a wavelength. In the second part of the report we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that flat rough surfaces behave like mirrors at very large incident angles. We show that there is a threshold incident angle for observation of image in a rough surface that depends on the surface roughness and light wavelength. The shortest distance between observer and the image is determined by the threshold incident angle. Mirage is such an image. Image formation is studied in rough sheet glass surfaces that prepared by grinding with powders of different sizes.