Because nothing is blocking our view. If I'm at the salt flats, on a clear day, I will see as far as the other person is not clipped by the curvature of the earth, depending on any atmospheric refraction. Why don't you answer where exactly you expect to see curvature? Part of science is saying "if flat-earth is right, and globe-earth is wrong, this is what I predict to see" before you conduct the experiment. And you are unable to answer the question now, after we've seen the videos. Why would visibility be limited 140,000 feet, or 154 miles, above a flat-earth. Why would this limit be the same as the globe-earth predicts?
Rayo. wrote:
Ground Control to Major Tom wrote:
So in this 140,000 ft high balloon we are 26.5 miles above a visible 922 mile radius section of globe. Where exactly do you expect to see curvature? At the horizon from left to right? I guess so, because that's where everyone is putting the straight edge. Exactly how much curvature should be visible, from the vantage point of the viewer high above the center. For 360 deg around him, the horizon is the same distance from the center, from the perspective of the viewer, and therefore drops exactly the same amount in all directions.
Now in a flat earth, we should be able to see much farther beyond this 922 mile disc. Our visibility shouldn't be clipped at all. Do we see further?
Why should we see further. If you go to some salt flats should you always be able to see to the other side by standing on your car, regardless of how far that distance is?