A lesser curved surface or a more indistinguishable of a curve, is still a curve, and measurable as a curve.
So the curve of Earth is a curve?
Your curve of about 8 inches over one mile of surface, is not measurable, you believe, over smaller distances?
This is simple geometry.
Again, the drop can be approximated as d^2/2R. Noting that for Earth, R is 6371 km, or 6371000m.
So consider a 1 m span. From the centre to the edge it is 0.5 m.
So plugging that in above you get 1.96e-8 m, which is 20 nm.
i.e. if you want to detect this curve over a distance of 1 m, you need to be able to measure accurately to 20 nm.
That we are measuring for a curve of less than a few mm
WHERE?
Over what distance?
with our precise instruments of today, would measure for curvature of Earth
When it is important, we do.
When it is insignificant, we don't.
A curved surface that is curving downward by 8 inches over a mile, and curving downward by 32 inches over 2 miles, and 72 inches over 3 miles, would not keep rising up more and more over a more and more downward curving surface, and would not be due to perspective.
We have been over this countless times.
The key distinction here is KEEP rising.
A flat surface will KEEP rising, FOREVER!
A curved surface will not. A curved surface eventually reaches a point where perspective wins and you get a horizon.
Again, the RE matches reality, your delusional BS does not.
We can see all of the surface three miles out is all flat.
You mean you are desperate for it to be flat, so you continually assert this.
Just how do we see it as flat?
Again, the dead giveaway is the horizon.
No curves anywhere at all are seen.
Except things like the horizon you keep on ignoring.
How do we measure for level, and its maximum distance over the surface?
The simplest method is a water level, based upon water adopting an equipotential surface.
But that is level, not flat.
A more accurate technique if you want to know angles is using a theodolite, which measures an angle of dip to the horizon and can measure the curve of Earth.
They have to measure them for their accuracy over distances
No, they don't, because they follow simple physics.
They measure their angular error, and use that.