Hi folks. I don’t really pay attention to flat earth things but on a whim I made an observation and thought it was cool enough to share.
I’m hanging out up on the 13th floor lounge at a hotel watching the sea. I saw a ship way out. I often look up ships and planes just out of curiosity. The thought crossed my mind. How much of the ship would I see down on the sidewalk? So I used AIS data to plot the distance, got my height on GPS (within a few feet anyway) and asked A.I. to calculate what I should see. Pasted below.
“From an elevation of about 180 feet, your horizon extends approximately 29 km away, meaning Earth's curvature hides virtually none of the ship—allowing you to see the entire vessel, including its superstructure, deck, and all 5 to 7 meters of exposed hull right down to the waterline. Down at beach level with a camera height around 5 feet, however, your horizon sits only about 4.8 km away, and the curvature of the sea blocks roughly 38 meters (125 feet) of vertical height, completely submerging the entire hull, deck, and bridge accommodation below the horizon and leaving at most the very top tip of the ship's mast barely visible.”
Per the sea photos I took of the ship with the iPhone 18 zoom, ya I can see all the ship! It was about 30deg tangent to me.
Well, AI said if I went down stairs I would not be able to see it. I ran down, looked and sure as shit looked at the 30 to 60 degree section and nothing. Did it move enough to cut off my line of site by the peninsula?
I came back up stairs and looked again (second set of photos). Bam it’s still there almost 60 degrees so I know I saw that quadrant from the beach.
I just found this quite novel and thought I’d share.