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Originally Posted by RiverFenix
I was awaiting someone to bring this up as it is the classic 'proof' of a round earth. The simple fact is it is a limitation of vision. If you watched the boat disappear then pulled out your binoculars you would still see the boat, it didnt disappear your vision wasnt capable of defining it anymore. If it disappear from your binoculars and you pulled out a telescope you would be able to see it again. This is a simple thing to test rather than accept what you've always been told.
Yeah, you're pretending I said something else. I didn't say the boat disappeared, I said the bottom of the boat disappeared over the horizon and the mast was still visible. It doesn't make sense for the mast (which is smaller) to be visible while the hull (which is bigger) is not visible unless something is obscuring the hull.
The issue isn't one of the boat, in its entirety, being visible or invisible due to distance, but rather the bottom of it not being visible while the top is, due to the curvature of the Earth.
Last edited by nortino; 04-11-2015 at 08:25 PM.
Reason: What CCuster said.