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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Me and every other person who has looked out at the ocean from the shore have seen the curvature of the earth.
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Originally Posted by Aloysius
It's not strange that the horizon appears straight - it should appear straight on a spherical earth. A sphere will look the same in every direction - imagine an ant on a smooth ball if that helps. A cylindrical earth would have a curved horizon. A flat earth wouldn't have a clearly defined horizon, more a gradual blurring as further away points become more difficult to see. With a telescope you'd be able to see Australia from the US.
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i'm just gonna let you two resolve this one. i'm with aloysius, but if janszoon can prove us wrong, i'm all ears. it shouldn't take more than a photograph to do so, and if everyone who has looked at the ocean from the shore has seen it, it should be fairly easy to get one.
though i don't know if i believe AU could be seen from US, due to atmospheric stuff and the fact that things get smaller the farther away from them the observer gets.