Ok, I started this in a new thread because the other one kinda went in a different direction and the approach and focus here is different. Gulliver, you may find this useful for the RE primer. First, I will show another sinking skyline of Toronto, Ontario. Such pics are easy to obtain, as I've learned, due to the fact that they can be taken from the city of Niagara on the Lake, which is about 50 km across lake Ontario. Please see:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.255278,-79.071667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=43.255278,-79.071667.
You will notice a black line that I have drawn. I will come back to it later.
Based on this picture, I outlined the visible skyline, keeping all things the same size. Based on the known dimensions of the CN tower, I worked out the proportions of the tower (ie. distance from observation deck to tip / distance from ground to observation deck) to complete the skyline and to extrapolate precisely how much was being hidden. You are welcome to doublecheck my work. The black part of the skyline is the part originally visible in the above picture. The grey is the extrapolated size of the bulidings all the way to ground level. You will also notice that I drew in the skydome on the left as it should appear based on the scale of the drawing. The scale is 1 pixel = 10.7 feet. (I actually made it a bit taller as it sticks above the horizon line by a couple of pixels. Probably due to a bit of rounding error and human error. In any case the apporximate size is correct).
The black line in the original picture corresponds to the ground level as I calculated for Figure 1. It is meant to show you how much of the skyline is actually obscured from ground level. According to FE theory, everything above that black line is the wall of water that the skyline recedes into as it gets farther away. That's a hell of a wall there folks. Not buyin it? Neither am I, since I can still see above and beyond most of the waves above that black line and to the horizon. In the other 'skyline thread', I've explained why this wall of water idea is bullshit (I'm still wainting for a rebuttal there btw), and this has been touched on in many other threads as well. Never will the waves intersect your view of the skydome, but hey, I'll INDULGE your indea nonetheless, and show you that imperfections on the horizon are still not enough to obscure the skydome in this picture the way they should. So I took this experiment one step further and drew a diagram simmilar to one I had done for a previous post but with this skyline instead.
The dark blue is the water, and the light blue is the "imperfections at the horizon". Notice that it is 7 pixels thick at the very edge of the horizon! I am being extremely generous with how big I am illustrating these imperfections to be. Now in figure 2, I take the unaltered image of the skyline and i bring it to touch the DARK BLUE line (i.e. a part of the grey area goes behind the blue line. How odd that the skydome is not completelly hidden, even by this massive imperfection, as it should be. In Figure 3, I shrink the skyline until most of the skydome is relativelly hidden. (Notice it still isn't quite hidden.. in fact some of the grey is still there, but I felt I had made my point and didnt wanna waste any more time. In any case I tried to closely match the 'cutoff' from the original pic with the cutoff created by the 'imperfections at the horizon'.) Notice how much smaller the skyline would have to be in order for that much of it to recede even behind so large a line of imperfection along the horizon.
The conclusion? Even with a generous allowance for what you claim causes the sinking effect, the picture presented does not support your argument. Even if it were possible for these so called imperfections to cause the effect described (which it isn't), the skyline would still have to appear way smaller than it does! So even when I indulge your dumb ideas, your theory still doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Congratulations.