I wouldn't admit to such a lack of a grasp on basic scientific observations.

Could you explain how you could see the Antarctic mountains from 300 miles away on a globe?

It's called being trolled by fake information

I hate falling for trolls. I feel duped. It makes me feel like a rube. A normie. A commoner. A plebeian. A peasant. A small-brained nothing. A mouth-breathing yokel. A dumb dumb dummy dumbs. A butterfly chaser. A helmet-head. A Mark Sothersby. A rider of the short bus. A "I need my mother to cut up my food into bite-size pieces and feed it to me" type dude. Like I should trade in all my shoes with laces for ones with velcro. Don't hand me sharp objects, I can only write in crayon. When I go to the store I hand the clerk a note for the items I want. People need to remind me to blink my eyes. I keep my address in my pocket and my name sewn into all my shirts. I watch the new Star Wars movies and enjoy them. Lemons are scary.

@childrenofthelie Let me help you out with the one you mentioned, for example

You know what I did for you?

I went to the source pdf and converted it to a txt file online

That is the full unadulterated .pdf at that .mil URL in that image up there, converted automatically to .txt

the block of data in question is here:

Where does this say there is a five mile ice wall circle around the entire earth like some kinda cosmic Trump finally protected us from the illegal aliens?

It is talking about the *possibilty* of optical illusions

At least you believe it's a mirage at 60,000 feet in the air

You could believe that

Please go there, and realize you are not likely to see this anyway

I dont

Please, bear with me here a moment

Why just that one spot?

Your 5 mile high ice wall would be VERY long, yes?

not just when approaching what "The Man" calls the polar region?

It's informing the navigator that distances can seem to be different depending on weather and atmospheric conditions

You jump to it saying, "Hey, this is the excuse why every time you are 300 miles away from here you will see ice"

When it's only a word of warning about a potential event

Like I said you could choose to believe it's a perfect mirage floating 60,000 feet in the air. I don't.

look at this mirage

and this one

this is the sort of phenomena they are talking about

what perfect mirage?

your perfect mirage is a confirmation bias, an idea you have made up for yourself based on bad data

please show me a picture of the perfect mirage, from, like, an .edu .gov or .mil site

and not a zany YouTube vid?

You are taking text that is warning navigators about phenomena that can make them misjudge distances, and reading far more into it than is actually in the text.

Go there, see it for yourself, take a picture, get back to me

cheaper than a caribbean cruise probably

It is warning of a potential event, you are very unlikely to see it like that, mirages are heavily dependent on multiple factors