just doesnt make sense to me

@Citizen Z Suppose that the earth is a sphere of radius 3963 miles. If you are at a point P on the earth's surface and move tangent to the surface a distance of 1 mile then you can form a right angled triangel. Using the theorem of Pythagoras a2 = 39632 + 12 = 15705370 and thus a = 3963.000126 miles. Thus your position is 3963.000126 - 3963 = 0.000126 miles above the surface of the earth. 0.000126 miles = 12*5280*0.000126 = 7.98 inches. That is the formula for finding the curvature.

Also there is a branch of mathamatics called Geodesy thats sole purpose is to calculate the curvature of the earth.

I suggest looking into that @Citizen Z .

Yes look into it

Pythagoras proves the flat earth

Do you have papers that weren't written by a crackpot?

Perhaps unbiased papers?

@CROONCH do your own math

I will assume you only use insults when you are pushed into the corner of globetardness

but

omg

Zoom on the back of your head?

The earth doesn't bend light that way

If you zoom you're zooming in the direction you're pointing

Such light cannot be bend by earth.

Exactly

That's their standard refraction model for 123 miles

Well the blue is the earth. The red is the path light takes in their standard refraction model
So anything on the earth at the blue will be elevated to the red
by refraction
So that is the standard 7/6 R

If your at 1000 miles altitude I guess you can see the other side lol

Here's the thing. Actual experiments show refraction varies from 20X to - 20X
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379214321907007488/533401661776068669/unknown.png
On the other hand, our empirical results show that the
refraction coefficient k may reach magnitudes as large as +12 to +16 over grassland at 1.8 m. This clearly
exceeds previously published ‘extreme values’ (e.g., maximum values of k = +6 at 1.5 m height over grassland,
cf. Hübner [1977]). We acknowledge that surface types like ice or water may even produce larger refraction
effects, as described in section 2.

As you can see from what I just posted , they measured what would be radius that would be 16 times larger than the earth radius
They think k they model refraction ,.In fact they model the deviation from from the globe radius.
They don't measure the refractive index of the air. the impute it from the deviation of an expected value
of course. Their model follows earths curve perfectly
think about how nonsensical that is. exactly equals the curve of the earth...idiocy...

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I see the moon

*In conditions that produce superior mirages, there are inversion layers in which the ray curvature exceeds that of the Earth. Then, in principle, you can see infinitely far — there really is no horizon.
Of course, we all know that visibility is limited by the clarity or haziness of the air. And the duct that (in principle) might allow you to see around the whole Earth doesn't really extend that far; it typically exists for some limited region, perhaps a few tens or a few hundreds of kilometers.*
- https://aty.sdsu.edu/explain/atmos_refr/horizon.html

The 7/6R is acknowledged to be a mere *assumption*
Remember that this "standard atmospheric refraction" is not the same as typical refraction you get with Snell's law, this is ad hoc reification.
You don't need to take into account anyones hypothetical in your experiments, they have to empirically derived it by experimentation, onus is on them.

hey guys

@Citizen Z image text is wrong, can't see the bottom of the mountains

THus we can throw that one out

their are so many places we see farther than we should

and now they are using infra red and seeing even farther

@Frolic never said bottom. Said bases

Your mind must have made that up

How do we know the observer height there?
That can be tricky, as google earth is often inaccurate, and we often don't have the means and data to determine it

you don't poop out your poop hole

first of all what is the curvature formula for earth ?

are we using 8 inches per mile squared

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im not a mathmetician but i dont think thats a good number or formula

lets say its 8 inches for now ill show u how the formula is wrong maybe

4 people in a straight line all 1 mile apart man a man b man c man d all in a row in that order