The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: Max_Almond on January 22, 2019, 11:00:31 AM
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Here are some nice pictures of mountains in California taken from Point Dume:
(https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/san-jacinto-gif-2-gif.35636/)
(https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/one-horse-ridge-png.35732/)
(https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/gorgonio-panorama-missing-jpg.35733/)
The actual visible amounts align pretty much perfectly with those predicted on a spherical earth, while the flat earth predicts between 2,200 and 6,100 feet more should be seen, depending on distance.
More details can be found here (http://"https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-120-mile-shot-of-san-jacinto-proves-flat-earth.t10273").
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I'm not sure why this thread is in FEI. Do your "nice photos" investigate or critique a mainstream, authoritative claim? If so, please make sure to make your point in the body of the OP.
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We already had this thread. It was determined and agreed that on a Round Earth the amount of mountain that should have been visible to the observer was somewhere between 13% to 7.8% of the mountain, depending on how the math was done.
It did not match up to the Round Earth Theory. Take a look at where the base of the mountain would be in the below Google Streetview Image from near the mountain:
https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=10320.40
(https://i.imgur.com/hbSpEjy.gif)
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Perspective causes a sinking effect for objects that are beyond the horizon line for an optical horizon. The base of that mountain is clearly beyond the horizon so there should be a sinking effect. The Bislin calculator and other such calculators don't take this fact into account so any predictions made using them are worthless.
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Perspective causes a sinking effect for objects that are beyond the horizon line for an optical horizon. The base of that mountain is clearly beyond the horizon so there should be a sinking effect. The Bislin calculator and other such calculators don't take this fact into account so any predictions made using them are worthless.
Like this?
(https://i.imgur.com/e5WmAC5.png?1)
Perspective causes a shrinking effect. Perspective wouldn't cut off the lower third of the sun. This would be perspective:
(https://i.imgur.com/C2QaOxm.jpg)
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We already had this thread.
That's a different photo.
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The base of that mountain is clearly beyond the horizon so there should be a sinking effect.
Can you please explain this further, George?
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Here's the nearest place of streetview I could find along the Point Dume-San Jacinto line of sight:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8503132,-117.0685214,3a,75y,89.97h,86.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szU1Xze8GPitJIAh_Vrr5oA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e4