Well that's a different story in my book on that

But it is an interesting thing to think about

false equivalency between intelligence and morality

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it does not follow

Thats the idea of kantianism; that it does follow

hey guys

Hello

Ok so I'm kind of the fence the shape of the earth and I wondered if any Flat Earthers could give me their arguments

@NinjaApple sight distances.

Such as lighthouses.

If earth was a 24900 mile ball, lighthouses wouldn't work.

Its that simple

Would the curve of the earth really be visible from a lighthouse @Citizen Z ?

Thats not what im saying

Oh

Im saying.

If earth curved...lighthouses wouldn't be seen from as far away as they are seen due to curvature blocking the light

Fair enough

The bulge in the middle would block the light

At a certain distance

Depending on lighthouse elevation, observers elevation and the distance between them

Ah

I believe the reasoning is because light from a lighthouse spreads and part of the spread travels upwards.People can see the light from a lighthouse even with the actual spotlight being obscured.

What I read, anyway.

I'll do the maths on this tomorrow and I'll come back to you with it.

I did this up real quick.

From that distance would the light be so dispersed you couldn't really see it? Idk

No, not at all

I mean, *some* probably.

Ok so apparently you can see a lighthouse from 20.2 miles away

If its 130 feet

And they vary in height from 80-200ft

I might be wrong, too, but that's how it made sense to me when I read this explanation.

Alright

The light would be disburse, especially through the water.

Flashlights lasers mirrors

Well, you wouldn't see it through the water, but definitely through the air.

If those two points were on the round earth it would be a massive distance

earth is that big that even boats really far away can see the light

earth is big guys

really big

compared with a lighthouse? it's negligible

seriously, for such a big sphere when you look at the curvature of earth from the top of a lighthouse, it's very small, thus the light being able to travel very far