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I just watched a Flat Earth video… it was very good. But before I become a convert I want to check it for myself. I’m about to go to the beach where I will be able to see cliffs about 17km east across the water. That’s about 0.15 degree angle on the earth circumference if I got it right. How do I calculate the gap between the triangle and the circle’s surface at the thickest point? I could do it with the triangles etc but there probably is an easy way?
I’m off to the beach now. My entire future depends on this answer ?
The Earth IS flat, didn’t we all play marbles as kids, if the Earth was round they wouldn’t have stayed where they were put.
I had my doubts at first but when the flatearthers used corialis effect to argue one of their points that completely sold it to me. ?
Up next, why Scientology isn’t nuts.
I used to live in East Grinstead and a few of my friends are Scientologists so lets not go there. I have only good things to say about them.
The Earth IS flat, didn’t we all play marbles as kids, if the Earth was round they wouldn’t have stayed where they were put.
I once lost a half-crown in 1956 on an errand for me mam. It rolled away until I couldn’t find it, cost me several smacks around the head. Proof positive!
Tadka, the fact that your Scientology friends are good people, does not mean that their beliefs are not dumb. Next door to me is a guy who was well on his way to an obese death: alcoholic, heavy smoker, lost the use of his legs. Had a visit from a Mormon a couple of years ago, became a convert. He is now several stones lighter, dresses smartly and goes out regularly. That does not obscure the fact that a religion built upon some guy finding golden tablets in an American mountain cave, is preposterous and plain silly.
The Earth is not Spherical: it is orange-shaped, being slightly flattened at the Poles. It is an oblate spheroid.
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I'm out.Don’t know about a flat earth but i may be able to help with the maths. Just draw a line from the middle of your line of sight to the center of the earth to form 2 right angle triangles. Now use the pythagarus sum of the squares rule to get the length of your new line. Subtract the length of your line fron the radious of the earth and bingo. I get 6 meters on my calculator
I found some website where you enter whatever data you have on a triangle and it gives you the rest. I made two tringles and a line in the middle to divide them so basically 4 triangles. Then I worked it all out in a somewhat more longwinded way. But I got 44m. Sounds like a bit too much of a curve there but I kept making mistakes so it’s probably wrong.
Don’t know about a flat earth but i may be able to help with the maths. Just draw a line from the middle of your line of sight to the center of the earth to form 2 right angle triangles. Now use the pythagarus sum of the squares rule to get the length of your new line. Subtract the length of your line fron the radious of the earth and bingo. I get 6 meters on my calculator
I found some website where you enter whatever data you have on a triangle and it gives you the rest. I made two tringles and a line in the middle to divide them so basically 4 triangles. Then I worked it all out in a somewhat more longwinded way. But I got 44m. Sounds like a bit too much of a curve there but I kept making mistakes so it’s probably wrong.
Yep your calculation is wrong. Just a simple thought experiment tells you that your calculation is way out.
Imagine you and someone your height are on either side of a big lake (roughly 3 miles across). at the point you can only see their eyes (binoculars allowed!)you have a line between your eyes that just scrapes the earth’s surface in the middle. The chord meanwhile goes from your feet to his feet and the difference between them (i.e. the ‘bulge’) is your height ~2 metres.
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