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Or just go to the seaside and watch a boat sailing away over the horizon... but that wouldn't put him in the spotlight, and this is obviously just another media

• jschwartzi 9y ago
  NB: This is actually how people in the middle ages knew the earth wasn't flat. They could watch ships drop down over the horizon from the harbor.
• phkahler 9y ago
  From Lexington MI I can see a lot of wind turbines across lake Huron in Canada. You can see the blades rotating below the horizon. I'm sure if you drive over there they stay a good 50 feet above the ground.
• cstrahan 9y ago
  Sadly, flat-earth believers will then claim that the ships aren’t being obscured by the curvature of the earth - rather, supposedly, it’s just that one needs to use a lens to zoom in due to the vanishing point: http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/evidence-for-the-flat-earth-ships-do-not-disappear-over-the-horizon.454885852/ http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/evidence-for-the-flat-eart... Of course, it would be easy to test that theory: keep magnifying as the ship sails away, and if the ship is still appears to sink, then the vanishing point explanation is a non sequitur.