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Horizon Question
« on: January 21, 2008, 10:07:45 AM »
Hello, I am new here, but I have a question to ask that wasn't included in the FAQs.  I myself am a RE'er.  Anyways, how do you FE'ers explain the horizon.  When I look off in the distance, I see how the curvature of the earth makes it so you can only see so far off in the distance.  How do you all account for this in your theory?  Thanks.
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2008, 10:11:18 AM »
Wait... weren't you just here? That is covered in the FAQ. read it more carefully.
If you can't extrapolate this from the FAQ, do a forum search for vanishing point
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2008, 10:20:28 AM »
I did a search and there was a thread on it, but no one seemed to come up with an explanation for a ship disappearing below the horizon.  They simply said that we were brainwashed into seeing the ship sink below the horizon.
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2008, 10:34:30 AM »
A horizon would exist on a flat Earth as well. 

"Note that, for observers near the ground, the difference between this geometrical horizon (which assumes a perfectly flat, infinite ground plane) and the true horizon (which assumes a spherical Earth surface) is typically imperceptibly small, because of the relative size of the observer. That is, if the Earth were truly flat, there would still be a visible horizon line, and, to ground based viewers, its position and appearance would not be significantly different from what we see on our curved Earth." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon

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http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=18560.0
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2008, 11:00:20 AM »
I see.  But what if you are in an airplane?  I would think you would be able to see for hundreds of miles away on a flat earth.  In reality, you can only see 40 or so miles.
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2008, 11:07:14 AM »
Quote from: poster on January 21, 2008, 10:07:45 AM
Hello, I am new here, but I have a question to ask that wasn't included in the FAQs.  I myself am a RE'er.  Anyways, how do you FE'ers explain the horizon.  When I look off in the distance, I see how the curvature of the earth makes it so you can only see so far off in the distance.  How do you all account for this in your theory?  Thanks.

Well done, lad. And to think this was your first post. Pray tell, how did you come up with such an ingenious way to disprove their silly worldview?
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2008, 11:17:43 AM »
The explanation is dirty air. Air is not transparent, it is dirty. It is full of blue dirt.
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2008, 11:18:39 AM »
Quote from: poster on January 21, 2008, 10:07:45 AM
Hello, I am new here, but I have a question to ask that wasn't included in the FAQs.  I myself am a RE'er.  Anyways, how do you FE'ers explain the horizon.  When I look off in the distance, I see how the curvature of the earth makes it so you can only see so far off in the distance.  How do you all account for this in your theory?  Thanks.

Dr. Samuel Birley Rowbotham found that the vanishing point of the horizon is slightly below the visible edge of the horizon due the mean combined height of the waves. Although the waves might reach a maximum of 44 inches in height above the true edge of the horizon, it has a profound effect.

Consult Chapter 14 of Earth Not a Globe.
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2008, 11:31:13 AM »
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2008, 11:34:19 AM »
Quote from: poster on January 21, 2008, 11:00:20 AM
I see.  But what if you are in an airplane?  I would think you would be able to see for hundreds of miles away on a flat earth.

A horizon would still be there.

Quote from: poster on January 21, 2008, 11:00:20 AM
In reality, you can only see 40 or so miles.

Source?
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2008, 05:17:32 PM »
Quote from: poster on January 21, 2008, 11:00:20 AM
In reality, you can only see 40 or so miles.

Source?
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Well, I don't have a source, but I would estimate from first-hand accounts in an airplane it's around that, though it may be closer to 100.  I really am not sure, but it's not 500 miles, that's for sure.
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2008, 05:21:29 AM »
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Re: Horizon Question
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2008, 11:31:22 AM »
Quote from: poster on January 21, 2008, 10:07:45 AM
Hello, I am new here, but I have a question to ask that wasn't included in the FAQs.  I myself am a RE'er.  Anyways, how do you FE'ers explain the horizon.  When I look off in the distance, I see how the curvature of the earth makes it so you can only see so far off in the distance.  How do you all account for this in your theory?  Thanks.

The atmosphere is not perfectly transparent.
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