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If you really think this could happen with an earth spinning and going around a sun that is also moving around a galaxy, well, you aren’t thinking, you are regurgitating what you have been told to think.

If you really think this could happen with an earth spinning and going around a sun that is also moving around a galaxy, well, you aren’t thinking, you are regurgitating what you have been told to think.

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The other problem is the ''as the crow flies'' makes an assumption that it is the same as ''as the laser shoots.'' It is most certainly not.

Any app made on this planet is going to include the distortion of the ground it was measured from- whether flat or rounded. A laser shot does not have this problem but an app certainly does.

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I don’t have a problem using ‘globe earth’ distances, as the landmark I use, even if my distance figure is out a kilometre either way, still disproves the globe lol

Are you unaware of the Bedford Experiment?

How about Verrazano Narrows Bridge?

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I was not familiar with the bridge. Search engine says the towers of the bridge are 1⅝ inches (41.275 mm) farther between the tops than at the base. Can't tell by naked eye

I will look at the Bedord Experiment

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I looked at a lot of images of it from different angles, there’s a definite curve to the bridge, and in their website they say that it was to be so long as to need to incorporate the curvature of the earth. So, when I saw the flat water under that bridge, it really gave me pause.

Then this bridge (with railroad!) is 102.4 miles long!! https://www.britannica.com/topic/Danyang-Kunshan-Grand-Bridge

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I am suspicious of the bedford experiment and admit that it is disappointing to read about environmental refraction.

That sounds frustratingly like scientific hogwash.

Although, I do have limited experience with refraction. (If youve ever been in a pool or bathwater and hold your finger at an angle , the refracted light is stark and obvious) but I don't know the limitations of how this would play out in the real world.

I have observed how light bends around my finger when I hold it up in front of an object, the object behind it peeks in and out of view.

Nevertheless I can see why this would be highly contested.

What is your thought in the same experiment ran with a flag in the middle and higher off the ground to offset the alleged refraction showing flag in the middle is taller?

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Would it show the flag was higher?? I’ve been considering getting a laser pointer of Wish but they are illegal here 😔

I really wish we had some big lakes around me, because I think a lake that’s at least a mile or two wide, would provide a great testing ground!