Huffy little man, calm down
I am calm. I am just calling you out for you repeatedly not answering simple questions which show your claims are crap.
Again, three miles distance is the average distance of a horizon seen approximately six feet or so above the surface.
I know this.
I know the distance to the horizon varies depending on altitude.
I know the RE model explains this just fine, but your delusional fantasy can't explain it at all.
Why three miles, not two or 4 miles, is simply because three miles simplifies it, but if you prefer 2.75 or 3.10 miles, that’s just as good, but what’s the point?
The point is you have no reason for the horizon to form at all.
You have no reason for to be a particular distance away. A distance which is set by observer height and is entirely independent of tools used to observe the horizon. It is the same regardless of if it is using your naked eye or a high power telescope.
So the question for you is why should it be this distance?
What physical process is making it this distance away?
Do you have any answer at all?
No. You can just say it is that because that is what it is in reality because Earth is round.
The RE explains it trivially.
The horizon is the point at which a line from your eyes reaches Earth and is tangent to it.
For a relatively short distance, this is given by d=sqrt(2*r*h).
So for an observer height of 1.8 m (roughly 6 feet), that gives a distance of 4.789 km, which is roughly 2.976 miles.
Again, the RE model works, you delusional fantasy does not.
You have no reason at all for why the horizon should be that distance. It simply is that distance.
Until you have a physical explanation for why the horizon is that specific distance, your delusional fantasy doesn't work.
You can look up why horizons are further away at a greater height, I don’t need to help you on that.
I know why, because Earth is round.
But if you want your delusional fantasy to work, you do need to explain why. It directly ties into the above question, of why is it a certain distance.
Again, for a relatively short distance, this is given by d=sqrt(2*r*h).
Notice the dependence on h in the formula?
So as you get higher, the horizon gets further away.
Again, until you can explain why, and tell us how far away the horizon is for a given altitude, your delusional fantasy doesn't work.
You always make up bs excuses for your made up curve.
Calling out your dishonest BS is not making up excuses.
It’s ‘quite difficult to see’ which means it’s never seen.
No, it is seen all the time.
Every time you see the horizon you are seeing the curve.
Just like you do when you look at the edge of a ball.
You just lie to everyone by claiming that magically happens on a flat Earth.
It is that if you only look at a tiny portion of Earth you will not see it.
e.g. if you look at a 1 m wide length of Earth, you will not see the approximately 80 nm drop from one end to the other (or 20 nm drop from the centre to the end).
It’s ‘too slight to measure’ which means there’s nothing of a curve TO be measured.
No it isn't. That has already been pointed out as a lie repeatedly.
It is too slight to measure with simple equipment over a short distance.
But using theodolites over long distances you can measure it.
And of course, your made up curve can’t be seen over a thousand miles of the Earth’s surface, from planes, because we are IN those planes
Firstly, in a plane you can't see out for thousands of miles.
At the cruising altitude of planes, the horizon is roughly 300 to 400 km away.
That would mean even if you could see all the way around you would only a horizon which is roughly 1600 miles at best.
Yet again you are just making up big numbers to pretend it is significant.
But more important, we do see the curve.
We see it with the horizon. We see it with being able to see further as we get higher.
Just what do you think is missing?
Why don't you try explaining just how we are meant to be seeing this curvature.
perfectly horizontal horizons
Firstly, it is never perfect.
More importantly, we expect horizontal horizons on the RE.
The FE is the one which we shouldn't expect it on.
rising up to 40000 feet in front of us.
No, it doesn't. You are lying yet again.
It doesn't rise at all.
Why not be honest and just describe the angle of elevation or angle of dip?
Why not go one step further and actually admit it does not rise to being level.
The horizon has a measurable angle of dip.
But if you are just using your eyes, with no reference at all, you can't tell, because your eyes simply can't tell if something is slightly above or below level.
If you had a reference you would be able to easily see that when in a plane. You can even do this on a mountain, and has been shown to you repeatedly, with you ignoring it because it doesn't match your delusional fantasy.
Stop lying, start trying to deal with reality.
When it’s risen up by 40000 feet, and perfectly horizontal across a thousand miles of the surface, or whatever, it’s kind of ridiculous to keep claiming there’s a curved surface over Earth.
So in your delusional fantasy?
Good thing we live in reality and not your delusional fantasy.
When your side then shows ‘images’ from above Earth, the phantom ‘curve’ pops up, out of nowhere!
No, it doesn't.
It is always there, you are just looking at it from a different angle.
Except your images are bs
You mean you dismiss them as BS, because you can't handle reality.
You can't actually show any fault with them and instead need to repeatedly lie about them.
we’ve all seen there’s no curve at all
No, you haven't.
You appeal to your wilful ignorance to pretend there is no curve.
You cannot articulate just what you expect to see which is allegedly missing. You can just boldly proclaim it is magically absent.
they cannot be confirmed by us as valid
They can be confirmed by you. No one is stopping you from launching your own rocket.
You simply don't want to. Yet again, you appeal to your wilful ignorance to dismiss evidence that shows your fantasy is crap.
You CHOOSING to make no attempt at all to validate it just means your argument is crap. It does not make those images crap.
we’d ALWAYS see curved horizons
I am yet to see a horizon which is not curved.