Have any of you ever seen a ship sail off into the sea?

is the earth convex or something? how is it that you see the backs of the ships disappear first? as if its going downward?

As far as I can tell they just claim that’s not true

i've seen it happen. i sailed from florida to mexico

Apparently it goes away in a telescope

im talking about the naked human eye

Which is interesting because there is not really any evidence to back that up, and I’m guessing most of the people who say that ha e never tried it

No apparently it coming back in a telescope proves the earth is flat

either that is so scientifically complicated that i cannot understand it, or, its just to dang dumb.

so the WARPED image from the telescope and ONLY when its coming BACK when its going the complete OPPOSITE direction proves it.

who comes up with this stuff?

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America isn’t real

agreed

Nope nothing about American History is valid.

@Timothy J. T. McGroovy#1278 is asking questions

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Optical slant

Angular resolution

If you are closer to the bottom of an object, it will disappear first as the object or you move further away

The angle is more shallow the closer you are to the bottom

As you move away further from a mountain, the angle between you and the bottom of the mountain is more shallow,.therefore the angular resolution of the eye or lens will decrease faster than the angle between you and the top of the mountain

Once the angular resolution hits a certain degree, the eye or lens will stop resolving that part

That part will turn into a line

The horizon

That line is the ground infront of you starting to blend with the background

On the ocean, the surface of water and bottom of boat will start to blend together first before the top of the boat and the sky

The sky is on a steeper angle than the water

We see the flat earth. Pathagrams theory is enough to compute the curve we should see. But it is not there.

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

Say that triangle top angle were the center of the earth. B is the radius and a the distance. Thus C would be the radius plus the supposed curve.

When you do the math you confirm. Multiply 0.666 times the distance squared. That gives the curve you should see.

It works up to around 300 miles.

A squared plus b squared should equal c squared

But it doesnt

This is in feet. Use 8 instead of 0.666 for inches.

Not on earth

Square b the radius. Square a the distance. Add together. Take the square root and then subtract the radius and then multiply to get the feet of the curve.

Because it will give you the curve in miles.

Why would that not work on earth. It is still a triangle just a very big one.