Post by LIT on Apr 4, 2015 12:37:36 GMT
Something else that occurred to me just now!
Well, they say that the Earth is an oblate spheroid which means that the polar regions are literally flat.
Have they tested the horizon visibility distance there? There is virtually zero humidity(it's the driest place on Earth), so a perfect place for long distance observations.
They claim that if the Earth were flat you would be able to see stuff very far away. It is actually given as evidence that the Earth is not flat, because supposedly objects sink below the horizon. There is even a formula which calculates this.
Can you see 1000 km away in Antarctica then?
It is flat, right? Even they say so
If you can't see so far away, doesn't it mean that the reason objects sink below the horizon has nothing to do with the curvature whatsoever?
The shape of planet Earth
Oblate spheroid
Well, they say that the Earth is an oblate spheroid which means that the polar regions are literally flat.
Have they tested the horizon visibility distance there? There is virtually zero humidity(it's the driest place on Earth), so a perfect place for long distance observations.
They claim that if the Earth were flat you would be able to see stuff very far away. It is actually given as evidence that the Earth is not flat, because supposedly objects sink below the horizon. There is even a formula which calculates this.
Can you see 1000 km away in Antarctica then?
It is flat, right? Even they say so
If you can't see so far away, doesn't it mean that the reason objects sink below the horizon has nothing to do with the curvature whatsoever?The shape of planet Earth
Oblate spheroid
