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Whats everyone deebating today?

Erth

hey guys

Hi

who wants to be friends

dad

Good old civil debate chat

***where did everybody gooooooo***

D:

Here

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561988982884270088/616011193735446529/contrast.gif So, I made this gif from a YouTube video. I don't know if there's a common argument to this or not, so that's why I'm here. Just to get an answer and be happy.

It's regarding weather balloons and curvature.

Two frames.

an easy way to see if a fisheye lens is accurate is to use a cross

the object/field in focus will have minimum distortion

Yeah, I only added a horizontal line.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419246750260264960/614837211191443476/unknown.png fisheye focused below the horizon
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419246750260264960/614837476573315133/unknown.png fisheye focused above the horizon

if the horizon meets the center of the cross, it is accurate

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/3-2-circumcised.png like how the center line is straight while all other lines are curved around that point

Anyway to describe the picture I made... You will notice that the horizon changes position at different heights, and that despite going below the horizon line, it doesn't concave like you'd expect if you were on the surface.
So what's the argument for this?

however your gif still shows a great increase in curvature with the height

Yup. That was the purpose.

well i don't have an argument

That’s bc you’re both globe earthers lol

yes

I don’t think that was the target audience 😉

it is not

but still good

I already confronted a flat earther with it, and all I got in return was dead silence. I'm hoping someone here will actually say something.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/478316772613685268/614835561915613198/unknown.png

this is what got me started

and yes it is my edit

Yeah, it's annoying when they do that. I was tempted to make a 3D sphere model with fisheye lens and make a gif that shows the problem with flattening the horizon that way.

just send all flat earthers into space so they can see that its round

rockets are kinda expensive

if you wanna prove anything, you're gonna have to go to space

but you don't understand

space doesnt exist

and rockets dont work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft