ok so the magnification is due to the lens of our atmosphere:

Yeah, why can i see the sun again after it has set if I gain altitude?

the lower layers of our atmo are filled with water, and water acts as a magnifying lens

In desert?

Like in salt flats?

man there's a really good video example of this to answer your question I just wish i could find it

If the water was a magnifying lense, I should not be able to see the sun again with altitude tho

lol with ALTITUDE you are PAST that layer of magnificiation due to the layers in the atmosphere

How much more water there is at ground level and at say 1000ft?

You don’t need to gain any altitude. Just zoom in.

Wha?

The sun has not set in that gif

so what is your super precise, uber specific question, that our previous 10 comments have not answered??

The sun was already converging before zooming in.

Keep the full zoom, and gain altitude

See what happens

Ok, you said the lines on the trees and the ground converge, right?

I say they don't

That would mean things going further from us would be mirrored when there's enough distance

Nice scenery

Just like my basketball

Pic

Flat

hey maleman why do you keep bringing up your basketball? 100,000ft altitude pics are incomparable to stupid things like a basketball

THIS is the picture to answee your question!!

look at it closely

It’s moving over a flat surface, and duplicates what we see the sun do in real life.

ok

I have no idea what that GIF is about

it is about the sun disappearing over the horizon like you repeatedly asked

Someone moving a drawing of a sun

they are using WATER and put a pic of a sun behind it, moving over a flat surface, and as it moves closer, the magnification makes it look like our sunrise

maybe look at it a few more times, it might take a while to click in your head