Brought my level and a straight edge to double check my eyes were playing tricks but the curvature was consistent across three different evenings, has anyone else tried this kind of simple observation test to verify for themselves?
I was marking out ceiling grid lines for a drop ceiling install in my garage at 6pm and the laser just flickered out after maybe 40 minutes of use, anyone else had their cheap tools fail at the worst possible time?
I used to think the flat earth thing had some points, but then I actually went outside and paid attention to the horizon instead of just watching YouTube videos. What got me was watching a ship sail out of the Port of Tampa last month. I sat on the pier for like 45 minutes with a pair of binoculars and watched a cargo container ship go from big to small until the hull disappeared behind the curve. The mast was still visible for another few minutes. That's not something camera tricks can fake when you're there in person. I get people trust what they see online, but you gotta go look for yourself. What other simple tests have y'all done in real life that convinced you?
I was out on a fishing charter and watched the shoreline disappear from the bottom up through binoculars, not fading away but actually sinking behind the horizon. Has anyone else seen this happen in real life and had a flat earther try to explain it away?
I posted my beach horizon shot last week and someone pointed out I was shooting from only 5 feet up, which barely shows any curve at all. They told me I needed to get above 50 feet or use a longer lens to actually demonstrate the drop, and honestly I felt dumb for not thinking of that. Anyone else get humbled by specific feedback like that and change how you present your evidence?
He spent like 20 minutes leveling it across a 3 mile stretch of lake, and sure enough the beam hit about 6 feet higher at the far end than where he started. Has anyone else seen people doing these DIY experiments in public?
So last weekend I grabbed a cheap green laser from Amazon and drove out to Lake Michigan. I set up at the beach and aimed it across the water at a boat about 3 miles out. According to flat earth logic, the beam should have stayed straight and hit the boat's hull just fine. But nope, the laser lit up the sky above the boat, not the boat itself. The curvature blocked it just like basic science says. I even double checked with a buddy on that boat via phone to confirm he saw nothing. Has anyone else tried a simple experiment like this and got a reality check?
I took a zoomed in shot of the skyline from the Indiana Dunes last Saturday (about 30 miles away) and then drove 15 miles north to New Buffalo, Michigan for the same view. The buildings were visibly lower behind the water at the farther spot, with the lower 200 feet or so of the Sears Tower just gone. Has anyone else tried a simple two-location test like this to show the curve in a straight forward way?
Standing there on the cracked shore I could see the curve disappear behind the mountains and it made me think how easy it is to forget the bigger picture when you are just looking at a puddle. Has anyone else gone to a place with a wide open view and had it settle an argument for you?
I tried to explain the curve by matching a flight path to a globe model and got a result that was off by 40 miles. Guess my math skills need work, anyone else run into weird gaps when trying to visualize flight data?
After 3 years of casually watching the night sky, I hit 127 sightings last Tuesday night. That number surprised me because I never actually kept track before. I just started a note on my phone back in 2021 when my nephew asked if satellites were real. Now I've got a whole log of dates and times. What's your count if you've ever bothered to track it?