For all the flat-earthers who complain they can't see non-CGI images of the curvature of the Earth, here is a recorded live video feed from a recent launch (May 19th) of an Atlas V carrying the Boeing CST-100 "Starliner" space capsule to orbit. The curvature is very evident at the higher altitudes. The video clip transitions from live photo to animation at about the 4:30 point, so don't be misled. They just didn't have a camera on the second stage. This was not meant to fool anyone (except maybe a child). The clip runs out a little beyond 8 minutes and will transition to other space videos, so that is only at your discretion. https://www.space.com/nasa-boeing-hail-starliner-launch-success-despite-glitch
If you look for other launch videos, you will see the same thing. It's not CGI folks; it's the real thing. (If anyone wants to claim it is CGI, then provide evidence. Ignorance and delusion are not proof. People and cargo are going to and from the International Space Station. It can be seen going overhead at night. Don't bury your head.)
"It's not CGI folks; it's the real thing".
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Don't be a boob. The animation is for the sake of illustration, as I warned you in advance. I guess you must be a child, to think that could be taken for reality. But I'm glad to see you don't dispute that the Earth is round. (And, by the way, the end of first-stage boost took place above the atmosphere.)
Get close enough to a basketball and it's edge looks flat, too. Think of a gnat walking on it, thinking it is flat. The operative word is "looks." Travel far enough and the effects of curvature become impossible to ignore. (Talk to surveyors.) Travel far enough (Magellan), you go completely around it. I guess you haven't traveled very far.
Pilots don't have to. The correction is so minute, all they need to do is to stay level with respect to the local vertical...which they do. It adds up to the same thing. And they fly AROUND the world. (My family lives in Africa and I've been there. Halfway around the world. The daytime is different there because of it.) The Bible says nothing about the subject, and the book of Job hints that the Earth is suspended in space, rotating about the north pole.
Hundreds of cultures dating back thousands of years knew nothing about astronomy, but the Greeks (Eratosthenes, 200 BC) knew that the Earth was round by figuring it out from geometry and surveying. You can stick with the Babylonians and all their heathenry. (You do know you are choosing to stick with the heathens, and turn your back on the Christians who developed what we know as science and astronomy?)
I've already found Jesus, along with a lifelong education and career in science and aeronautical engineering. No conflict. It is fair to say that God is truth, that his Word includes creation itself, and we are given the power of reason to see and understand the creation. You, on the other hand, are rejecting the evidence of eyes, ears, and hands to make an idol out of your exceedingly narrow and embellished interpretation of scripture. When you reject God's creation, how close are you to Jesus?
You can prove the Earth is round with a few stars.
I can't get cell service driving through a densely treed area near my house but astronauts on a spaceship are chattin' it up while leaving the earth's atmosphere? Mmmmmkk.
NASA has communication relay satellites. That was before cell phones. And there are no forests on the way to orbit, so line-of-sight communication is still good during ascent. (Radio command guidance was originally proposed for ICBMs, but was deferred in favor of inertial guidance out of consideration for possible compromise of the signal.)