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RE: It's True, Water is Level... Because We Live on a Sphere
Ever set up a surveying total station on the shore of a beach and looked through it out at the horizon? There is a cross hair inside the total station with straight lines and when it is lined up with the horizon on its horizontal axis, you can see the curve in the horizon.
Also, in surveying there is a formula that is used to account for the curvature of the earth over a length of 1 mile based on what is being built so finish product elevations remain level.
I've personally experienced these things first hand, as I was a surveyor for 2 years in Daytona Beach, FL. So I know the earth is not flat. And even before then, I still didnt think it was... just thought itd be interesting to experiment, and see how what I thought, aligned with reality.
These guys always say that they have to see it for themselves. Well, they could just hire a surveyor for an hour and do that. But they won't. They don't want to do anything but confirm their bias.
Thanks for sharing that. What's a crack up is that these guys just love this flat earther named Rowbotham that was promoting flat earth in the late 1800's. He was sighting ships at 6 miles distance on the Bedford Canal in England, and one of his followers put up a bet that no one could prove the earth was round.
So a surveyor stepped up with his theodolite and won the bet from Rowbotham by showing the curvature.
But flat earthers today ignore that Rowbotham lost because someone who understood science did the experiment correctly to avoid refraction and measure the curvature.
Yet they still LOVE Rowbotham and ignore the fact that surveyors were measuring the curvature of the earth since long before Rowbotham lost his bet.
Just ridiculous.