/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11487442
Flat Earth retards cling to a formula of '8 inches per mile squared' as the formula to measure whether or not something is visible. While this does measure the 'curvature' over short distances the red line in pic related shows what that formula actually measures, when they should be measuring the blue line to know if something is visible. The fact that nobody in the Flat Earth community has noticed and fixed this issue after so many years just shows how little they care for actual mathematical evidence.

Other things to point out:
The Eotvos effect.
Get an ISS tracker app and watch it go overhead one day, ask for explanation.

>>11288185
>according to your spherical trigonometry it should be almost 1km below the horizon based on 8'' of curvature per mile squared.
That calculation is wrong. If you draw a diagram and note what that actually calculates you'll see that while it is a measure of the Earth's curvature it is not a measure of the size of objects that you can see around a curve.

The red quantity grows as 8 inch per mile squared over short distances, but obviously if you want to know what is visible you should be calculating is the blue quantity. The fact that nobody in the FE community has spotted this after all these years is a real testament to their education.