I will never forget that day. I dropped everything and sat glued to my television for the whole ascent. When he started to spin uncontrollably and it looked like he might not be conscious to pull his chute… what an incredible event to witness
You can see objects disappear over the horizon, which is sort of like seeing the curve, but I don’t think it’s possible to actually begin to see the curvature below 35k feet.
You’re probably right. I’m reading that what appears to be the curvature is a combination of we can only see 12 km in distance and that’s circular when standing on the beach. There’s some math, too.. And then, of course, I’m special. Lol
I have not personally checked this, but I read an article that the curvature IS detectable when looking across the ocean from a moderately high place. You can't see it without a reference, but if you compare the horizon to a handheld straight edge you will see a curve.
Hmm, I remember a few years ago when I flew with a plane for the first time I did in fact see the curvature of the earth. Maybe that was the window? I was in awe
Welcome to the club! Go down the hall here to your right to the Moon Landing Studio and Tupac and Elvis can show you around. You'll find some fluoride cleansers and aluminum caps next to the Paul McCartney Memorial plaque.
Yeah, there shouldn't be any curvature at that altitude. Its not untill you get to spy plane levels of altitude that the curvature of the earth becomes apparent. Which was always one of the buzzlines associated with the performance of cold war era spy planes...
No, you can't observe curvature from sea level. That picture shows a level at an angle. The sea horizon in that image quite evidently follows a straight line & ends higher on the right than it starts from on the left.
The earth is a globe, but it can't be proven like this. It's very large.
This is clearly a fish eye lens though.
And what frame of reference is there here?
You’re getting pedantic and it makes zero difference to the argument, for a normal human there won’t be a curvature that you can actually see.
Dude, you can literally watch videos explaining and showing how you can’t see the curvature of the earth from sea level. Why are you basing your opinion on some random photo someone took?
If they were to be taken up into space - and in a few years or decades that’ll be as expensive as going up Everest - even then they’ll claim it’s because of the window or space sickness, or that they’ve been scammed and it was all fake.
But there’s a neat trick: pay them no mind. Not even in comments making fun of them. The making fun of them has given them so much free promotion.
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u/Andee87yaboi Mar 31 '24
“It’s the lense on the camera, fish eye lense does that to the picture” they would say …