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Europe = NorwaySo, if you please, ... where are these corners ???
These are directions, aren't they ?
Why are flat earth preachers use denigration as a arguing technique ?
Rev. 7:1 four corners of the earth. How can a globe have corners, or do you deny the holy word of God.
Do you ever look at the moon nestled in the clouds and think 'Those clouds are 250,000 miles away?'
I have stated before, that water would have to to be perfectly still/calm for it to be absolutely flat. When you speak of a boat on water you are not seeing a absolutely calm flat surface. Especially if this is in an ocean or even a large lake water has movement
Flat earth is circle shaped.
No one wave is going to obscure the sight of a bridge ... unless it's a tsunami ...
Look at the diagram below. If you standing on a balcony 50 feet above the water level watching a ship that is 50 feet tall sail off into the horizon the waves can’t obstruct the bottom of the boat. The only way they can obstruct the view of the bottom of the boat is if the water goes above the line of sight. If you can only see the top half of the boat that means that the water has to be at least 25 feet high in order to block the line of sight. That’s if the water right behind the boat is blocking the line of sight. Halfway between you and the boat the water would have to be 37.5 feet high in order to block the line of sight. This equation doesn’t change with distance, here’s why. Notice in the diagram the waves appear smaller as they go off into the distance just like the boat does. That’s because as the boat appears to get smaller as it goes off into the distance the waves also get smaller by the exact same proportion. Your not taking that into account because a 2 foot wave cannot hide a 50 foot tall ship if you are looking at it from an elevated position. So if the ship is 5 miles away then the water right behind the ship would have to be 25 feet high in order to block the line of sight and at 2.5 miles which would be the halfway point between you and the ship the water would have to be 37.5 feet high to block the line of sight. Now at 20 miles that doesn’t change the water still has to be 25 feet high right behind the ship to block the line of sight and at the halfway point, 10 miles, it would have to be 37.5 feet high to block the line of sight. At 100 miles the same exact equation still applies the water still has to be 25 feet right behind the boat and 37.5 feet at 50 miles to block the line of sight.
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Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (Zech 4:6)
Side note - apparently the name Zerubbabel means 'melted by Babylon'. If he was God's hand to build the Temple, how much more those who are purified in God's furnace.
So from your drawing the line that goes from your boat to the observer represents 100 miles. If that is correct, your boat must be a 15-20 mile long boat.
Yes that will happen if you place the box where it obstructs the line of sight. It will happen every time. That has nothing to do with the example I gave since the waves are not in the line of sight. Even elevated at 50 feet above the water the boat will still go out of sight from bottom to top.-Funny how a 12 inch box can cover up a two story house.
And this photo example was even taken on a road that slopes in the direction of the 2 story home.
Look at the diagram below. If you standing on a balcony 50 feet above the water level watching a ship that is 50 feet tall sail off into the horizon the waves can’t obstruct the bottom of the boat. The only way they can obstruct the view of the bottom of the boat is if the water goes above the line of sight. If you can only see the top half of the boat that means that the water has to be at least 25 feet high in order to block the line of sight. That’s if the water right behind the boat is blocking the line of sight. Halfway between you and the boat the water would have to be 37.5 feet high in order to block the line of sight. This equation doesn’t change with distance, here’s why. Notice in the diagram the waves appear smaller as they go off into the distance just like the boat does. That’s because as the boat appears to get smaller as it goes off into the distance the waves also get smaller by the exact same proportion. Your not taking that into account because a 2 foot wave cannot hide a 50 foot tall ship if you are looking at it from an elevated position. So if the ship is 5 miles away then the water right behind the ship would have to be 25 feet high in order to block the line of sight and at 2.5 miles which would be the halfway point between you and the ship the water would have to be 37.5 feet high to block the line of sight. Now at 20 miles that doesn’t change the water still has to be 25 feet high right behind the ship to block the line of sight and at the halfway point, 10 miles, it would have to be 37.5 feet high to block the line of sight. At 100 miles the same exact equation still applies the water still has to be 25 feet right behind the boat and 37.5 feet at 50 miles to block the line of sight.
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Why are flat earth preachers use denigration as a arguing technique ?
According to your illustration the person at 50 ft height is looking at a boat at about 550 ft away.
So that is not very far away, you need at least a mile for your illustration.
Our line of sight is not that low. For something to obscure our line-of-sight, ... the obscurance must be at least 4-5 foot high. Ripples and waves on a calm water surface are not that high.-Funny how a 12 inch box can cover up a two story house.
And this photo example was even taken on a road that slopes up in the direction of the 2 story home.
Our line of sight is not that low. For something to obscure our line-of-sight, ... the obscurance must be at least 4-5 foot high. Ripples and waves on a calm water surface are not that high.
Why would that matter on a flat earth? The equation is still the same. In order for only the top half of the boat to be visible the waves would have to be at least 25 feet high, that’s the only way they could block the line of sight.
Distance matters.
If a person is doing a sight curve test, the lower one is to the ground, the more (if the earth was a globe) of the object in the distance should be covered up by the curving earth/ground.
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