This isn’t a topic that I’ve delved into in a long while. I’ve seen plausible explanations for the above examples but hell if I remember what they are. What got me really thinking was seeing things that physically and scientifically should be impossible on a globe. Just going from memory here (and I don’t remember the numbers in miles or the math that dictates how much distance visibility is lost to the curve, sorry)…With powerful enough magnification, boats are visible many miles from shore, long past the point of disappearing behind the curve. Placing lasers and boards on opposite sides of a large Lake many miles apart (I’m thinking it was something like 30-50 miles apart - a very large distance at any), and hitting the targets precisely (lasers don’t follow curves). So there’s a couple easy experiments you can do yourself to test the theory. Other examples were using powerful magnification to seeing cities and mountain ranges hundreds of miles away. Not possible on a globe. I’m sure the video posted in the OP goes into much greater depth and detail.
This isn’t a topic that I’ve delved into in a long while. I’ve seen plausible explanations for the above examples but hell if I remember what they are. What got me really thinking was seeing things that physically and scientifically should be impossible on a globe. Just going from memory here (and I don’t remember the numbers in miles or the math that dictates how much distance visibility is lost to the curve, sorry)…With powerful enough magnification, boats are visible many miles from shore, long past the point of disappearing behind the curve. Placing lasers and boards on opposite sides of a large Lake many miles apart (I’m thinking it was something like 30-50 miles apart - a very large distance at any), and hitting the targets precisely (lasers don’t follow curves). So there’s a couple easy experiments you can do yourself to test the theory. Other examples were using powerful magnification to seeing cities and mountain ranges hundreds of miles away. Not possible on a globe. I’m sure the video posted in the OP goes into much greater depth and detail.
Im willing to see it, but without specifics i would be inclined to assume refraction has something to with it.
No a big portion of the video has a guy saying that he doesnt think firing accurate missles is possible if the world were spinning.