For the recent surge in "Flat Earthers" in GAW, this is for you.
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"You can't explain basic curvature" lmao wut? Yes you can. What does this even mean?
The earth is a couple thousand miles across yes you can see for quite a distance before an object will eventually drop below the horizon.
Here's and equation for how far you can see before the earth curves.
a = /[ ( r + h )^2 - r^2]
a = distance to the horizon
H= distance your eyes are from the ground
R= earth's radius
Note this equation does not account for the phenomenon of light refraction. Which is when light passes through a medium which is not perfectly uniform, such as air the light ray bends meaning some photons from the object that usually hit the ground actually bend around the earth's surface lol this is the shit that trips you dummies up. You can literally observe this effect in grade school level experiments. Meaning the distances you see things dissappear beyond the horizon can change and why you might actually see farther than you would think. Educate yourselves.
The horizon in this instance only means the point at which you can expect to see an object pass beyond the curvature. Which of course can change based on light refraction which you conveniently ignored, hence why you would see further with a telescope than with the naked eye, because your eye is incapable of resolving the true distance. Telescopes literally make use of this phenomenon to view distant objects lmao.
Airplanes can not just fly off into space at 250mph LOL, you need a considerable amount of energy to escape earth's gravitational force. Airplanes DO constantly adjust their elevation to mean sea level to compensate for the curvature. The fly along the curvature and follow a constant barometric pressure. Again literally the only thing you people is gross misunderstandings offered up as "proof"