#space jump

One of the many arguments that gets flung at flat proponents goes something like this:

“Have you ever taken a plane trip?! You’d be able to see the curve.”

Bing! Yes, we do regularly fly on planes to flat earth conferences. Due to a flexible inner window and the pressure between the inside and outside of the plane, at ground level the horizon is flat, but at high altitude a fish eye lense is created, showing a curved horizon.

And:

Have you ever climbed a mountain?! You can see the curve!!

Yes, we often do things like this to test the globe!! There is footage from the tops and bottoms of mountains showing the sunrise to see whether it “rises” or moves towards us, as according to the flat model.

Also, there are things like:

Just look at Mythbusters and high altitude footage!! The horizon is curved!!

Sure, but a fish eye lense will always give a curved horizon.

For this virtual experiment I created a ball that is “the size of the earth”, and then positioned the camera to scale to the ball.

This way we can see exactly how curved the horizon should be on a planet with the earths radius at whatever altitude we choose.

You can replicate this for yourself simply by looking at the camera specifications I have included in the image.

Let’s start with the Red Bull “Space” Jump.

Felix Brautburger or whatever his name is went 24 Miles up. I converted to Kilometres, and positioned the camera accordingly. The camera is a normal 35mm lense.

The “Z” Axis refers to the height of the camera. I have simply added radius of the globe + 24 miles in kilometres.

It results in a clearly curved horizon.

Remove a fish eye lense, and the horizon is not nearly as curved as we expect it to be. There is still a curvature, but we can say that there is possibly some camera lense distortion. Either way, the earth would have to double in size to give a flatter horizon like this!! So either way Felix has proven that all our maps are totally wrong.

Perhaps, historically, we can find a higher view of the horizon... much, much higher...

We can also use the model to compare to other high altitude balloon footage. Here we have a flat horizon at 21.5 miles up:

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBDOt4R6hLY

“SpaceJump” Inspiré d’un poste apercu ! Et réalisé en Trixel !