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Old 11-24-2017, 04:12 PM
fitzy fitzy is offline
 
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Originally Posted by BCSteel View Post
Thank you for proving my point.






Let's take a very simple example of the possible non curvature of the earth. The curvature of the earth is 8" of drop for every mile of distance squared. Let's take an easily observable distance of 2 miles, or 3.2 km. That would give us a curvature drop of 32" or 2.7'. It's absurd to claim that you can't see a canoe at just 3 km away on any body of calm water.
From my height of 6 feet 2 inches above the water its easily seen, what about at ground level ... I can't say but I would bet it's disappearing.

SO ....Why can't the mountains be seen from Edmonton if the earth is flat?

Edit... Just looked into it and if my eyes are 6 feet above the ground I have a horizon of 3 miles on a calm lake, so yeah it seems reasonable instead of absurd. Thanks for proving the point.
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