@BADecker, empirical measurement and observation are not faith based! The earth is flat for as far as the eye/camera can see and your claims otherwise are nonsense and lies.
The majority of the surface of the earth is water and water forms a flat level surface, this is measurable, testable, verifiable science using the scientific method.
https://i.imgur.com/M4fROE6.jpgDoes this look like a curved fun-house mirror to you?
Wrong! Empirical eye and camera measurements produce an optical illusion that only
suggests that the horizon rises to meet the eye. This illusion is produced by the inflation of the same aberration oblation that you constantly talk about all the time. Empirical eye and camera measurements are completely faith based... except in the case of your buddies who intentionally produce the camera lies that show the horizon extending when you use a telescopic lens.
Consider. When you are transit-telescope-camera looking straight up, the atmosphere rarefies with height. This has been proven many times by Everest climbers, and high-flying airplanes and balloons. It is a well know science. But there is no rarefaction when you are looking at the horizon. In fact, when you are looking at the horizon from a height above the ground, you are really looking from a slightly atmosphere rarefied position into a denser position. Your explanation of what is normally called gravity shows this.
The elevation of Mount Everest is considered to be almost 30,000 feet. That's something under 6 miles. Throughout all that elevation ascension, the atmosphere is gradually rarefying until the climbers need oxygen tanks because it is so thin. Calculations have shown that at 20 miles of altitude, there is so little atmosphere that it is essentially negligible for causing aberration of sight.
The point? All the aberration stuff you talk about makes your eye and camera views to be something different than actually exists, because there is way more aberration as you look through way more atmosphere at or near ground level. At the same time, when you look straight up, you DO have some aberration. But the aberration tapers off because of the rarefaction of the atmosphere with altitude.
This means that, on a FE, you should be able to see the edge of the sun, or at least be able to see near the edge of the sun, when looking straight up at 16 nm away from the spot where the sun is directly overhead. However, the thing that you see straight up at 16 nm or further from the center, is the emptiness of space. Why do you see this? Because of the curvature of the earth combined with the great distance the sun is from the earth.
If you are going to use simple understanding of what the eye sees, you are using faith based stuff. When you take into account a whole lot of math, trig, and telescopic observation, and include all the understanding of aberration and the way temperature affects the atmosphere, you will find that FE doesn't fit... except if you want to change the whole explantion of physics. But you use much of normal physics without explaining why.
Globe earth is the realistic observation.
