>>20911800i dont give a fuck about your random gotchas, none of us are realistically going to be circumnavigating the earth and doing these little hypothetical puzzles, why don't we stick to REALITY?
we are ONLY able to see a certain distance before something should be on the side of the globe, right? can you please just accept that for the sake of discussion? yes, lets both agree: we are ONLY able to see a certain distance before something is too far to see because its off the globe under the curvature, right?
i'm trying to repeat points and keep it simple so everyone lurking and reading this can follow. science claims to accurately know the radius of our earth. this number is 3959 miles. radius means -- that is how deep we would have to go to get to the center of the globe. there are many numbers that depend on this number to be true, like gravity and space travel. for example, if you wanted to travel to "outer space", you need something called the radius of orbit, requiring the radius of earth. if this number is wrong, the whole globe model stops making sense, okay?
so listen, this number which science TELLS YOU is real and 100% (of course it is, because we have travelled to space, right? and seen that its a globe, and that proved it, right?) is 3959 miles.
on a 3959 mile globe, if the observer is one foot up from sea level, they should, according to YOUR globe earth numbers, ONLY be able to see 1.2 miles away. after 1.2 miles, whatever you are looking at when you're 1 foot off the ground would be "off the side" (or rather, the portion of the side) of the earth that you're viewing. are you with me? okay, well, what if i told you that people have conducted tests thousands of times, there are MANY curvature tests you can find or i can link that show how people, following this exact setup of 1 foot up at sea level, are able to see ocean platforms that are MEASURABLY 10 miles+ away BEFORE the horizon? (extra contrast to see the horizon)
