@miyako,
Not at all.
I legit believe in the flat Earth.
That doesn't change the fact that I am an enormous troll. I tell people this knowing fully that they are so conditioned to believing the Earth is round, that it will get a rise out of them.
Quote:Jebus,Frank, I just don't get it. Those bridge follow the arc of a spherical planet. They just don't get that if you measure a four foot segment of a twenty mile arc it will read level and flat. If he'd pull out his 20mile long level or easier yet: use a transit, that curve would be unignorable, and with in just several miles.
You know that surveyors use devices for looking at long distances? You know that they're the ones that build things right? Which do you trust? The people who build things and stare it in the face? Or the people who say it because they did science math on a chalkboard? Wait don't answer that. You don't seem to get that an appeal to experts only works if the expert in question has done real research.
The news has decided to call a reasonable assessment of being able to draw a straight line across the horizon "curvature blindness."
Not at all. I know there is a curvature... of the sky. I have seen planes fly through the sky and veer all over the place. But the Earth itself does not have curvature.
This picture is meant to "prove" that the curvature is hiding the bottom part of what's over there. Actually, it's like this. Vanishing point starts from the lowest point first, and objects head downward. An object sinks below the horizon, not because it goes "around a curve" but because it disappears (vanishes) past the horizon. This is also why the sun sets but doesn't really appear to shrink so much as dip in the sky. Objects heading away from us lower and shrink, but objects heading across simply dip without changing size. The sun isn't moving away from us, and we definitely aren't rotating away from the sun (this would look less like an arc and more like looking straight from one object to another, there is a distance perspective of turning in circles), but rather moving across the sky. As even dumb Egyptians knew.
It's called an optical illusion. The vanishing point does exist. If I were to plant trees on a flat hill in say, Illinois (Kansas is not the flattest, that's Florida but it's near sea level) in a perfect straight line for about 10 miles, and walked back from them, they would appear to dip. "The curvature, the curvature!" If a curvature really did exist, those trees at the end of ten miles would be like this.
The lady on that trail must be going "Wtf?"
But actually, as one gets closer, all such trees are shocking revealed to be perfectly flat. Even if there were a gradual curve, the trees would
gradually start to behave like the tower of Frank Apisa.
But we learned this in geometry. A circle is equal to 360 degrees. This means 1/4 of a circle is 90 degrees. If we assume a perfect sphere, this means a 90 degree rise after about 1982 miles. Btw, a 90 degree angle means the height is equal to the length. We went across the US, there is no such rise at any point.
The thing that I can safely say is that I have never seen any bathtub where water rises in a curve (hint: not how gravity works). Remove the impossible, and whatever remains must be the truth. We have a series of straight lines and gentle slopes in all directions. We're talking about a circle, not a globe.
"But but, it's so subtle you don't even notice it!" Even if it were that subtle, engineering bridges would need to make minute corrections, and engineers would have to be involved at every stage, compensating for this. Instead...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKi8VWRDA_c
China kinda has a bridge building machine.
In other words, the Earth is flat enough that the entire process of building can be automated. That's not round, it's not even elliptical. It may not be flat as Illinois, but it's flat enough for my purposes.
