That basketball argument is so idiotic it really doesn't deserve a response. Seriously what do you think you are accomplishing by that other than looking foolish?
You can't possibly be expected to be taken seriously if you try to claim water surfaces don't start to curve until after a certain long distance is reached that fits your fancy. The perfect spheroid angle, now that's original. The material impact of the imperfection of the sphere has to be within the limits of the undetectable imperfection of the Big Blue Marble "photo" (that's a real photo right?).
No one who publicly debates or "debunks" flat earth challenges the earth curve formulas on the web because they don't want to look like a public idiot (pick anyone of them and they all return the same results within an irrelevant margin of error, but you can see the source code from M.I.T. on this one ...
https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=30&h0=10&unit=imperial
... here ...
https://github.com/dizzib/earthcalc
"The lake beds themselves aren't curved either" No shit sherlock. Maybe you'll learn something if you think about that for awhile.
My 10 foot hidden target height example is 100% irrefutable to a reasonable mind. Honestly, your not the target of my comment here because your too in love with your cleverness for me to fool you. I do hope someone who (understandably) might feel a bit intimated by the potential insults to join in is observing all this and sees who brought up reasonable evidence to look into and who has nothing but ad hominem attacks. Yeah sure, I've done that too, but not exclusively and only as a response to your repulsive unearned smugness.
That basketball argument is so idiotic it really doesn't deserve a response. Seriously what do you think you are accomplishing by that other than looking foolish?
You can't possibly be expected to be taken seriously if you try to claim water surfaces don't start to curve until after a certain long distance is reached that fits your fancy. The perfect spheroid angle, now that's original. The material impact of the imperfection of the sphere has to be within the limits of the undetectable imperfection of the Big Blue Marble "photo" (that's are real photo right?).
No one who publicly debates or "debunks" flat earth challenges the earth curve formulas on the web because they don't want to look like a public idiot (pick anyone of them and they all return the same results within an irrelevant margin of error, but you can see the source code from M.I.T. on this one ...
https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=30&h0=10&unit=imperial
... here ...
https://github.com/dizzib/earthcalc
"The lake beds themselves aren't curved either" No shit sherlock. Maybe you'll learn something if you think about that for awhile.
My 10 foot hidden target height example is 100% irrefutable to a reasonable mind. Honestly, your not the target of my comment here because your too in love with your cleverness for me to fool you. I do hope someone who (understandably) might feel a bit intimated by the potential insults to join in is observing all this and sees who brought up reasonable evidence to look into and who has nothing but ad hominem attacks. Yeah sure, I've done that too, but not exclusively and only as a response to your repulsive unearned smugness.