A Question Concerning Coasts

This is what happens in a mirage, and the definition of wave behavior as being refraction instead of reflection is, in my mind, semantic.

It is quite clear that the mirage in this photograph is creating a reflected image of the car above. Whether the light bends (refraction) or bounces (reflection) when it hits that medium interface is, frankly, immaterial.

LOL FAKE!

fake...

your not that big of an idiot are you?

When did I say the river had to be 60 miles long?  It was stated that a hill could not be in the line of sight.  Well there can be (just not a very big one).

When did I say the river had to be 60 miles long?  It was stated that a hill could not be in the line of sight.  Well there can be (just not a very big one).

But the original point was why the Rocky Mountains appear to follow the same "Top First" appearance as a ship approaching from the horizon.  You posilated the an interposing hill could cause the illusion.  I respondes with the existing conditions of why that was an unacceptable explaination.

In order for your suggestion to work, the hill would have to be either far enough from the mountains, or high enough to cause just the peaks to appaer at a great distance.  Either the hill would be closer to the mountains and very noticeable, or further away, and now allow the rivers and streams to flow Eastward from the mountains.

I said nothing about any illusion.  It was stated that there could be no upslope anywhere along the path of the river.  I was mearly refuting this point.

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This is what happens in a mirage, and the definition of wave behavior as being refraction instead of reflection is, in my mind, semantic.

It is quite clear that the mirage in this photograph is creating a reflected image of the car above. Whether the light bends (refraction) or bounces (reflection) when it hits that medium interface is, frankly, immaterial.

LOL FAKE!

It is also inverted.  Last Time I watch a boat float out of sight, it did not appear upside down.