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Originally Posted by jmakin
You're joking but that's like a legitimate explanation for them
I've tried really, really hard to understand the mountains of water post but still can't make out what point he's trying to make. That on a curved surface, water wouldn't lay flat or something? It doesn't, it lays on the curved surface of the earth. It's called gravity.
On the ocean you can only see about ~6 miles away and stuff disappears over the horizon. Something something light refraction.
What they're trying to say is this:
Look at a clock. Say LA is at the 2 and Tokyo is at the 10. If the earth was round then the water would settle to the bottom and you would have a flat surface across the top. In theory you would be able to see LA from Tokyo and vice versa. But we are saying that there is a "mound" of water between the two cities. How do we explain that?
It shows how dumb they are because in this scenario Brazil and Angola would be at about 4 and 6 and somehow the water would (wouldn't?) drain out the bottom and we could (couldn't?) see them across the Atlantic?