if you are 40 miles from Chicago, swimming in the water with your eye just at the waterline, then you cannot see Chicago. The waterline will obscure it completely because of curvature.
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if you are 40 miles from Chicago, swimming in the water with your eye just at the waterline, then you cannot see Chicago. The waterline will obscure it completely because of curvature.
That's what i mean when i say his video is not compelling. He might be full of shit. I'm relying on him both being honest and knowing what he's doing in the first place.
But I can look at the sun, and without youtube, determine that the way the length of the day, size of the sun, seasons, phases of the moon, all work exactly as predicted by a round earth model.
I was watching the blood moon in the backyard with my mom and I was seeing the moon as I normally see it as if it was really far away and then she told me that it looks like it's right there and then it hit me that it really did look like it was right there and not far away, illusions and perspective are real and things can seem one way when they aren't that at all.