An american guy claims he found proofs of Earth being flat. Prove him wrong.
You can start the video on the 44seconds spot and finish the following 4 minutes.
Admittedly, I smiled when I first came across a video claiming that the Earth is flat rather than a globe and I thought to myself; " How backward can people get?"
Then I chose to view a short one to be able to get just enough info on what are their reasons for believing such "bs" in this day and age. Thinking it will be easy to prove them wrong, if ever I meet them. The guy in the video seem to have the same line of thought.
It is easy to laugh at them and call them crazy, insane and many other negative expletives. Proving them wrong on the other hand, is a whole ballgame in itself. As I discovered later; is rather hard.
To put it simply, using pythagorean theorem it is easy to prove the curvature of the surface of a ball in a given distance with a known circumference. (Earth's circuference is SUPPOSEDLY 40,000 Km.) Meaning there is an expected 8 inches curve every 1.6 Km or 1 mile.
If you would like to see the expected curvature of a globe Earth horizon please see the image below:
Here is a simple challenge to all of you out there who are scientifically and mathematically inclined thinkers: Using math, some Euclidean geometry and some observable evidence, prove this guy wrong. Or did he discover something that is deliberately hidden from us for sometime now.
Here is a practical way to observe this yourself. When you chance to see two distant and separated landmarks in your horizon, find out their exact distance from one another, using Google Earth ruler tool. Remembering that your horizon is also the outer limits of this supposedly globe Earth and see if you can find the expected curve. Find 2 farthest separated things from each other as you can observe in your horizon.
Happy thinking.