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Thank you for agreeing with me. What does NASA have to do with this?

Dave, I've already addressed this. See below. Here's the part you need to pay attention to. By the way, Dave, did you ever do that experiment in that post? PJ, something I need to address from this post that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet. How do you know if in any of those...

What do you think we're talking about, Dave. The size of the earth.

As in, the size of something.

Um... What? I made it pretty clear that the video was from a game still in development, and not actual real life camera footage... My point was that, even though the horizon can look flat even on a sphere, if you're close enough to it, it will start to bend as you get higher and higher. PJ, can...

PJ, I'm currently unable to play the game I was talking about earlier, so I found the next best thing to illustrate what I wanted to show. This game (Star Citizen) allows you to descend from orbit to land on moons (and soon planets as well). This footage is from a few months ago, but shows a...

I'm planning on recording something soon in a game I play that may answer some questions.

I'm not sure if anyone has, mainly because of the expensiveness of such a journey. But making an argument that the earth is flat because no one has done so is called an argument from silence.

I believe I answered this already. If you want to spend the money for that kind of trip, be our guest.

RD?

At one mile, the drop is less than 0.013% of a change. 2 miles away (drop of 32.01 inches) is a change of just barely over 0.050% change. 3 miles away (farthest distance visible at sea level) (drop of 72.02 inches) is a change of just over 0.011%. I don't think it's even humanly possible to be...

Never said anyone was. No, I don't think they figured everything out. I think they were lacking quite a bit. So you're not questioning that one can use math to determine if the earth is round or flat? Because (tongue in cheek) it's simple trigonometry... Again, never said anyone was...

This is a written forum, not a video sharing site. If I wanted to watch YouTube videos, I'd open up the YouTube app on my phone or the page on my computer's browser and watch them there. But I'm on TOL, not YouTube, meaning I'm here for written discussion and reading responses. So could you...

Is it possible that the Greeks got it right on calculating the size of the earth, at least in the ballpark? So then it should be easy to show where their math is wrong, right? Could you do so for us here? Again, would it then be easy to show where the math is wrong, and show your work here...

I think that the Grecians were a very smart people, with strong interest in mathematics and philosophy. I think their philosophy was not grounded in truth, but I'm pretty sure mathematics can't be influenced by philosophical beliefs. 1+1=2 whether you're a polytheist or atheist or monotheist.

I'll find it and mention you.

Dave, I'm pretty sure I'm still waiting for a reply to one of my posts.

Oh dear.... From the twitter thread above: Check out @ankaralitutank’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ankaralitutank/status/961004614404530182?s=09

Dave, an 8in drop over a distance of 63,360in (1mi) is not going to be very noticable. In fact, unless you can perceive a drop of 1/7920th of a mile at a distance of a mile away, you're not going to be able to see the curve from ground level. Again, Dave, unless you can see a 1/7920th of a...

Dave, even assuming that gravity doesn't exist, and it's only density/buoyancy that causes things to rise or fall, on a spherical mass, things would rise and fall in relation towards the center of the earth, not north being up and south being down. If "down" is towards the center of the planet...