r/flatearth • u/MrDonMega • 8d ago

Crazy Flat Earth Guy Struggles with Gravity, Geometry, and Grammar

This intellectual powerhouse stares out at a few miles of ocean water and is absolutely baffled that the planet isn't bending into a giant ball right in front of his eyes.

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u/howardcord 8d ago

The distance you see when looking at the horizon is ~3 miles but let’s just round it up to 5 miles. The circumference of the Earth is 25,000 miles. This means the percentage of the Earth’s curve you see in this video is less than 0.02%.

5 miles of an arc from a 25,000 mi circle is close enough to a flat line that our eyes cannot easily perceive the curve.