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RE: What Grinds My Gears? Flat Earth Theory.
Good piece, thank you. If Galileo were alive today, he'd go up in an airplane and point to the horizon: "Look, it curves down! It's not just the window glass!"
Also, those satellites you mentioned: how exactly would they orbit a flat surface? Do they just fall off the edge of the world? There be dragons there.
Didn't you hear? The US and French governments have been paying Airbus, Boeing et al to install special window glasses that give you illusion of curvature. It's all a hoax!
Those are some fancy glass panes, they even know when the plane is in the air, since they don't curve the world when on the ground. Those scientists must be briliant!
Sorry, optics dictate that you cant see a curve at that altitude. The horizon needs to drop A LOT before anyone can see a curve. Even at low earth orbit it would be difficult to perceive. Otherwise...we are living on a tube! ;-) (if you see a curve from a plane, you would need to extrapolate that curve over 360 degrees...which doesnt work)
You can't see the whole sphere from 30,000 feet, but you certainly can see the horizon dropping off...into the land of dragons. ;)