he wasn't implying anything. he simply said that there are people who could do this experiment every day
No, he clearly stated that a specific group of people are performing a specific experiment every day to determine whether or not light actually bends. It was this experiment:
An example would be to find an offshore platform of known distance from shore and height above sea level and note how much is visible from different heights at the same point on the shore. Having access to a scissor lift, or cherry picker would be ideal for such an experiment.
And this is his response:
Excuse, but every day this experiment is done by people moving between floors tall buildings of our port cities.
Since it's clearly a data-gathering exercise described in the first case, I want to see evidence that the people of which he speaks have actually collected any data. Otherwise he's spouting nonsense as usual, as described above.
The fact that you treated his statement so seriously is precisely the reason it was necessary for him to be called out on it. There's very little substance to most of what this troll posts; he's made it like his job to discredit this forum because he's incapable of thinking any way but literally and he's gotten it into his head that we're a dangerously subversive influence.
oh, i see what you mean. i guess the better way to put it wuold be, there are probably people doing this experiment everyday, without control conditions, without recording any data, or publishing any results.
but in the end i see no point in arguing this, since everyone agrees that the further things are the smaller and further over the horizon they are/appear.
the ideal experiment would be to vary both your hight and distance from the object since fe hypothesizes that the light travels on a curved path instead of a straight line. start at the highest point and the furthest distance you can go and still see the object, move forward in incriments and measure how much lower you have to go to see the same amount of the object (and i say measure how much lower since the hight of the ground certainly varies in both models, and i suppose the best way to do this would be to use 2 vantage points at a time and a level to measure the drop from one to the next), then plot these points and see what shape the line takes.