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Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:38:27 UTC No. 16209060
woah I can see the curve
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:43:41 UTC No. 16209071
>>16209060
Yes. In fact you can see that it doesn't look quite realistic, don't you see it?
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:45:39 UTC No. 16209075
>>16209071
oh yes you are quite right it's not nearly curved enough!
it looks LOADs more curved when you look outside.
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:46:09 UTC No. 16209077
>>16209075
It actually does.
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:48:22 UTC No. 16209083
>>16209077
yeah just look at this photo
I am in awe at the majesty of our planet
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:59:52 UTC No. 16209100
>>16209083
The curvature isn't that small, anything further than several km away makes it visible, though it often gets masked by uneven terrain. But on the sea or especially on a plain with distant mountains like this - you will only see the nearby area, then a gap and then the mountain range. Almost like in some kind of a video game that cheats with rendering.
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:02:29 UTC No. 16209105
>>16209100
cause the mountain is big
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:02:32 UTC No. 16209106
>>16209060
Wait one hot dog
Why does it do that?
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:02:35 UTC No. 16209107
>>16209060
Isn't it INTERESTING?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBt
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:07:19 UTC No. 16209110
>>16209105
Yes, cause it's big. Kind of like the trees peaking over the horizon in pic.
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:19:27 UTC No. 16209124
>>16209110
yeah man it's so fucking curved
oh my god I love space the universe is amazing I love science
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:25:50 UTC No. 16209135
>>16209060
What at the middle? Is the universe really just some projection from a singularity?
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:32:08 UTC No. 16209156
>>16209135
there is no middle
you can't see the vanishing point because of the curve
duh
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:33:49 UTC No. 16209163
>>16209156
Vanishing points are not due to curvature bro
Anyway this has me thinking
What if it's not things disappearing into a vanishing point, but things being projected outwards from them
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 04:36:01 UTC No. 16209167
>>16209163
yeah it is projected outwards
they are called photons
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 07:40:42 UTC No. 16209367
>>16209060
>woah I can see the curve
land surface isn't a good way to see it.
Do not trust what I'm about to tell you, I might be lying, GO SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES.
Grab some binoculars and go to the sea shore, on a clear day, a sunny day with no clouds anywhere would be ideal, walk all the way down to the water line, get your feet IN THE SEA WATER if you want, and look at tall ships come in and out of view on the horizon (the taller the ship, the better, that's why grand, tall sailing ships are perfect).
Or look at a bridge that goes beyond the horizon.
Repeat the process on several days, as often as you wish.
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 07:41:30 UTC No. 16209370
>>16209060
this image proves that space expands as it gets close to you, since the mountains in the back are smaller than they would be if they were at your location
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:02:10 UTC No. 16209388
>>16209367
The reason I say for you to do it several days, or several times, is that sometimes, just like when sometimes it looks like there's water on the surface of a dry road that goes off into the distance, a similar effect takes place close to the horizon on the sea. It's called an inversion layer effect, and it's a type of mirage effect, it's pretty cool to see as well, but it might distort the view of the ships. Pic relevant as example.
If conditions are right though, the horizon will be nice and sharp, and you will see the ships go out and come in behind the horizon like this time-lapse example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYY
Sometimes the layer inversion effect is so strong, that it reflects the sky above and (very rarely) can even make ships look like they're floating above the water, what a mind-fuck, lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-L
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:09:04 UTC No. 16209393
>>16209388
>just like when sometimes it looks like there's water on the surface of a dry road that goes off into the distance
some people don't live in places where the effect can be observed, it is most commonly observed on hot, sunny days and is more prominent on straight, flat roads, so here is a great example that I watched live with my dad in 1981. Notice towards the end, when the space shuttle touches the ground and rolls, there are some camera shots angles that show the air layering effect, and it looks as if the shuttle is on a lake surface, its image reflected upside-down underneath it as if it were rolling on a mirror, or water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ3
pic also relevant
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:16:23 UTC No. 16209398
>>16209367
Look at this this video, great example, and with minimal layering effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyS