Elon Musk..."It would appear that the so-called fringe minority is actually the Government"
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No, you misspelled the name of the single person who most proved the Earth is round---and apparently you don't understand that, which perfects your ignorance. "The Earth is flat" is a nonsense phrase. There is no reality it corresponds to. You vent and steam, but you have no evidence AT ALL. All you have is ignorance. And you don't seem to understand how the rest of the world is involved in the reality of the Earth being round...all the international travel, and transcontinental communication, and exploration of space.
But you have a mental problem. You have no intellectual capability to dispute the facts and proofs I have mentioned, and you are probably vexed at that fact. How is it possible to be in possession of the truth and not be able to defend it? But it is the foundation of Your World, and if you don't defend it, you fear to descend into madness. Unfortunately for you, you are already there, and the torture of being mad is that you repel offers of escape when they are presented to you. God did not decree the Earth to be flat---he certainly did not decree the Moon or planets to be flat, as we can fully observe. He enjoined us to follow the path of truth, and the farther from truth we become, so also are we far from God. As you have become. Pay attention to His creation and see it for what it is and do not be concerned, for the creation is his word as well as scripture and whatever is true is not to be feared. (Even Jesus told Doubting Thomas to touch his wounds in order to believe.)
Thanks Nazi! Heil Hitler
See. the progression is infallible. The more you are incapable of reasoned discussion, the more you resort to being snide and insulting. This is called mental regression. You are functioning like a child, trying to kick me. (The irony is this: in the end, you are the one saying "Heil Hitler.")
How come on a clear day you can see chicago 50 miles away on a beach on the Indiana side of lake michigan? I hope you say mirage as your final answer
No real problem. By pure geometry, a spherical Earth would have dropped about 1,640 feet. This is if your eyeballs were at ground level, which is decidedly pessimistic.
By an established rule (1.225 x square root of viewing altitude in feet), one could see 50 miles to features on the ground from a viewing altitude of 1,665 feet. The tallest building in Chicago is the Sears Tower, at 1,451 feet.
There is, of course, refraction of the air (density gradient => refractive index gradient). Based on the effects for radio waves, the surface would have appeared to drop only 1280 feet. It is an old truism that by the time when the setting (or rising) sun is touching the horizon, it actually would be below the horizon from strict geometry. Refraction makes that much difference.
So, it is a combination of (1) how high the viewer is, and (2) how high are the features you are looking for. No mirage is necessary. For sure, 50 miles would be a practical limit.
I earned my two masters degrees in aeronautics and astronautics in the study of aerodynamic refraction effects, and became something of an expert in the analysis of radio/radar propagation refraction.
Oh the irony!