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Science & Alternative Science / Re: NASA’s Latest Moon Actors
« on: September 22, 2023, 11:47:15 AM »Damn, you need to report this to the surveyors in Kansas...They got their stuff all wrong there...not.../sarcasm.The telescope needs to be leveled AT EACH OBSERVATION POINT. Level is perpendicular to the pull of gravity which makes it tangential to the surface. Since the earth is round the angle of that tangent plane changes at each observation point resulting in the telescope pointing higher relative to the target as the distance between them increases.Of course you did. You wrote that the telescope would need to be leveled. If it is already leveled once and remains on the same level ground, affixed to that point, that's your claim.I have made no such claim. The surface need not be continuously level as long as the telescope is leveled at each point of observation (not continuous observation). Nor did I give any distance which of course would depend on the height of the target object as well as being limited by visibility conditions.Here we have an RE-adherent claiming it is possible for an object to be continuously observed over a flat, level surface at a distance of say...400 miles.The hypothesis is that if the earth was flat a leveled telescope sighted on a distant object would maintain that sight line as it moves further away. But it does not, it points every further up making the object appear to sink. Thus the earth is not flat.Its the telescope that must be level at each observation point not the ground in between and of course close to the same elevation.If you want to test a hypothesis, you need to remain true to the hypothesis. Arbitrarily throwing parts of it away will invalidate your results. I get that you'd really like to talk about something else, something that makes you more comfortable, but perhaps you could take that elsewhere, too?
You claim the object disappears because a telescope mounted as described eventually ends up somehow pointing up.
