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Then why make it? I mean it's literally just abject stupidity! There is no way I would associate myself with something like that. I'd be embarrassed! What's to explain? The ship goes over the horizon! There would be no horizon on a flat earth. Case closed! The stupid morons refute...

You are stupid David. I cannot even believe you're capable of thinking such idiotic things.

Abney Level Sight level Yes, it is stupid David! It isn't simply the antithesis because we do actually see hard horizon lines EVERY TIME WE GO OUTSIDE!!! And your video shows a hard horizon line with a ship the drops below that line from the bottom up which is exactly what is expected on a...

I for one will not be watching any videos longer than a few seconds long and I also am not willing to discuss anomalous examples of ships appearing to do weird things on the horizon. Besides, aside from the already explained atmospheric distortions of light right at the edge of the horizon, the...

:up: It isn't so minuscule that it cannot be detected at all, David. It's too small to notice with the naked eye but we have instrumentation that can detect it. Flet-Earther seem to pull this stupid trick every time they discuss nearly anything. They're either stupid enough to think that if...

I agree with you that there is a danger of some videos getting dumped in with the bad. This is why it is, in my opinion, wiser for them to not make any such attempts to filter out conspiracies. YouTube is, however, as you are already aware, a privately owned website and no one has "the right"...

The number of miles is not the relevant number. It's the angle that matters. The angle is determine by the relative lengths of two sides of the right triangle. Get a protractor or download an app of some sort and measure 8° above the horizon and see for yourself how far it is. It's isn't...

Assuming that exactly none of the ship is hidden by the horizon and that the camera is six feet about the surface of the water and assuming standard refraction, the ship would be approximately 3.25 miles away. https://www.metabunk.org/curve/

The Right-angled Triangles Calculator b=3959 miles (radius of Earth) c=3999 miles (radius plus altitude) 40 miles altitude yields an 8.11° (angle A) down angle to the horizon line. That's not a huge angle by any means and I'd wager that your brain would still make it feel like it was straight...

I'm not trying to make lite of your work, I just don't get it. After reading it, my thought was, "So what?" What's the argument? It seems you managed to make something where you could actually draw the triangles and measure the angles with a protractor, thereby confirming at least part of...

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All that stuff has been talked about in torturous detail. And besides, how does math that proves that the Earth cannot be flat let any flat Earther off the hook? Ask Dave whether he feels like I'm letting him off the hook.

Yes. I was playing around with the metabunk site and decided that it was too well done for it to be likely that they would have made such a mistake as I was suggesting, so I did some more research and figured it out. Makes me glad I was willing to use their larger number for argument's sake...

It's called tts (text to speech) narration and can be added to any video for free... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FhjfPkNp-w

Okay, so I'm not a mathematician! Calculating the angular size of the Earth to determine the horizon drop DOES NOT WORK!!!! Therefore the first three lines of my last post are totally wrong! :down: The reason it doesn't work is because with altitude, you can see a larger and larger percentage...

The angular size of the Earth would be 179.45° from an altitude of 100,000 ft. That would mean that the horizon will have dropped .0275°. Not noticeable! 18 miles is not nearly high enough to notice any change in the horizon. To see just a 2% bulge, which is just enough to be readily...

That's a pretty smooth argument you're making! See what I did there?!

I reconfigured the image. Hopefully that one works. If not, here's the site... Angular Size Calculator An interesting thing for you to do at that site would be to find out the angular size of the Earth relative to an observer 6 feet away and then from 40,000 ft and see how small the difference...

I mentioned the likely answer to this already. To know for certain, you'd have to look at the code and see the actual formula they are using but I think it likely that they are using the wrong formula. I think they are using the formula for angular size rather than the formula for calculating...

The Sun and Moon appear to move across the sky because the Earth is spinning. If you want to cause the Sun and Moon to stand still in the sky (there's be no point in making them stand still in any other context), the way to do that is to stop the Earth from spinning on it's axis. If you're...