Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you were standing on the Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey about 2km from the Statue of Liberty (height 93m), from the bottom to the top it would be about 2.5 degrees.

  If you were looking at the Eiffel Tower at 6000 km away from NJ, and the earth were flat, the Eiffel Tower (height 312m), from the bottom to the top it would be about 0.003 degrees from bottom to top. If you could line it up so that you could see the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower at the same time, the Eiffel Tower would appear to come up to the first 10 cm of the Statue of Liberty’s base. That’s actually a little bigger than I would have expected, but still tiny.

  I wonder if, even with binoculars, someone could even resolve something that small. Ignoring everything like ocean waves interfering, vegetation getting in the way and atmospheric interference, my guess is that it would be just too small to be seen from that far away without some ultra-powerful telescope.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They probably think that your render distance is limited for [insert reason here] or something.

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It kind of is, if the world were flat it wouldn’t look much different I reckon, except when you’re in exceptionally flat places like oceans or large lakes. And even then, due to clouds, fog, dust, smog and atmospheric scattering, things far away are harder to see

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m an inverse round earther. The earth is round, only we are on the wrong side of it.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would that actually be true? Someone should try to render a flat earth, for science, shits, and giggles.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …stackexchange.com/…/assuming-a-flat-world-and-no…

    Basically, you could see for a long way but your eyeballs suck so it largely doesn’t matter. Even with the best telescope and optics on a perfect day you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere which scatter light.

    Also, Barad-dûr was destroyed when Frodo threw the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom so it wouldn’t be there.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere

      Lol if you’re going to abandon the round earth theory, you might as well dump the concept of an atmosphere, too.

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• basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where are the Himalayas?

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  • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gotta turn around to see them

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where would the photographer be here that they can see the pyramids with the Statue of Liberty (what a joke) is to the left of them? Saudi Arabia maybe?

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• thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One does not simply walk into Flat Earth

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• knightmare1147@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay, I want to be able to simulate what the world would actually look like from a vantage point where you could see the whole world unwrapped like this.

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think unless you are up very high, most tall distant things are covered by buildings and mountains.

    If you are in, say, the eastern part of cairo, you might be only 20km from the pyramids of giza. However if there was a normal sized house even just 1km away in the same direction, it would be big enough to cover the pyramids entirely.

    Then there is also mountain ranges. Even if you were on top of the Burj Khalifa with a really good telescope, multiple mountains would block your view. You would need to be multiple Burj Khalifa’s higher up in the air to see the pyramids of Giza from there.

    And then there’s clouds, fog, dust, smog and last but not least atmospheric scattering of light, obscuring things more and more the further away they are.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok I just spent 20 mins with an LLM and it got me setup with three Js and adding landmarks to a flat earth projection.

    I’ve not the time nor inclination to take it further but happy to share a link to the code if someone else wants to expand on it.

    I am a software developer but my curiosity was piqued and the LLM cured that, but happy to zip up the project.

    Leaves a lot to be desired as it’s not what you would actually see and more a play on this meme where you can use the camera to set vantage point and see how things would align. We used cubes to represent landmarks so no crazy graphics.

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  • cuerdo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    now i need this

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lool talk about PERSPECTIVE!

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That black tower center-left is in Washington DC is it not?

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  • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its tel aviv but they are very similar.

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    • Famko@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks a lot like Sauron’s tower ngl.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  POV: you’re in Australia

  (Hypothetically the only way the arrangement of Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, and Statue of Liberty works on flat Earth)

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eiffel Tower is too far to the right. I think you would have to be in the US standing very close to the Statue of Liberty for this to work. If at all. You’d have to be pretty far north to get the pyramids that far to the left of the Eiffel Tower and still have the Statue of Liberty in the pic. TLDR, I think this might be fake.

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  impressive

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a rare sight and you can only see this on mid of 2020. Not a single report at all because of the lockdown. They want us to drive car so the smog will make sure you couldn’t see any further than your city.

  They are covering up, wake up sheeple!

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  • lol_idk@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s very far away and we’re still seeing the light from when it still stood

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, right. Makes sense.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    maybe OP has elf ancestry? physics doesn’t really apply to them so maybe they can see into the past

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Straight_Road

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It has been remade

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pray I do not remake it further.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Make sense, Sauron didn’t die he just weakened and took ages to recover.

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t forget that it’d be nighttime after a certain distance, because light can only travel a certain distance before it disappears.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the sun is also flat and it sits directly above the earth. it’s just that it rotates so sometimes we can only see the side of the sun that doesn’t have any light.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well now you’re assuming the sun is spherical and gives off light in all directions.

    If it were more like a flashlight, then flat earth day and night still works. So checkmate again.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But we wouldn’t see sunrise/sunset.

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    • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it’s just pointed at one wall. It’s not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.

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• renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not much of a clear day in that image

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  • dukatos@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think that is a shot from “Babe: Pig in the City” movie, from 1998.

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Telescope lens is getting crazy out here

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