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Flat earth horizons - Simple tests

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Channel: Phuket Word · 2015 · Travel & Events

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Examples of horizons on a flat earth plane. Tabletop visual experiment to show horizon variations on height.
Mirage effect at short distance. Kids feet disappearing as they walk away from the camera.
The point of part one is to show how we are not necessarily seeing over or beyond  a curve when we raise our point of perspective to see beyond an object that was near / on the horizon at ground level on a flat plane.
Part two shows a clip of the shimmering horizon at a short distance when camera is at ground level. Next, enter a couple of kids at the horizon line and see how their feet disappear as they go just beyond the horizon. This shows the same thing we see as the bottom of a boat 'disappears' as it gets farther away. Again, it is not going over a curve, just getting distorted at the horizon line.
Not ideal conditions. It was getting dark. More to come.

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