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Ok, so you are confused.
Your altitude is your height above sea level. For this purpose, have your phone at eye height for an accurate reading.
For your distance, you can use www.distance.co which gives you distance AS THE CROW FLIES, meaning from point A (your location) to point B (landmark location).
What does fly on the wall have to do with anything at all??
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.
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?
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
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?
Ok. You do understand that ''at sea level'' is the very location that is being contested, right?
An observing fly-on-the-wall would be the final authority on whether or not the elevation was measured from flat or bulbous ground.
If 2 individuals over a vast distance take a measurement and see they are both 20 meters above sea level elevation that does nothing to determine where they are in relation to eachother.
Nah, you are complicating a very simple test to avoid doing it yourself.
I found my own altitude, and the landmark I used is less than 4 metres above sea level, by all accounts and my own eyes. It’s a small, low island which should be completely hidden by the ocean, IF the earth were curved. But it’s not, because it’s not.
Lol. If you are wondering why results could show you are above sea level, with that instrument while you are - literally - standing - above - sea - level, then I don't know what to tell you
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