![]() ![]() I suspect a flat-earther friend of Nathan’s probably noticed it too and got word to him. I immediately saw a problem with Nathan’s calculation. Screenshot of flat-earther's post minus gloat It is dishonest to cherry-pick relatively rare data and present it as the norm.įigure 4. Notice the relative lack of distortion in this photo as compared to Figure 1. As I demonstrated in my earlier blog, the man who made the video admitted that most days the visible horizon is between the shore and the platforms, exactly where the geometrical horizon is supposed to be (see Figure 2). The second error that flat-earthers make in invoking the black swan photo is that they pass off what this photo shows as an everyday occurrence. Temperature inversions can refract light a considerable distance along the earth’s curvature, placing the visible horizon far beyond the geometrical horizon. Temperature inversions are common off the California coast. The fact that atmospheric refraction is at play in the black swan photo is evidenced by the vertical compression and wavy distortion that the more distant platform exhibits in the photo. The first error is that flat-earthers don’t consider atmospheric refraction, which is nearly always present to some degree.
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