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? 😂

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. 🙄

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. 🙄

they are still level from you, at eye level

It’s the Flying Dutchman!!! 😂

you see a mirror effect

a fata morgana

I am the flying dutchman

With a bag o weed

On the horizon

@skaffa yippa As you wish

😃

@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? 😂

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. 😂

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. 🤔

https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs

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.

I do like some of the side discussions that come up. Especially about questioning the completeness of theories about electromagnetism (especially concerning Earth's magnetosphere), gravity, and light physics.