Posted on 05/07/2019 7:23:02 AM PDT by simpson96
(The Chicago skyline was seen from 60 miles away across Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, Michigan, at sunset Saturday, May 4, 2019.)
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Imagine gazing across Lake Michigan expecting to see the setting sun on the horizon, but instead seeing the skyline of a distant city. That's what happened in St. Joseph, Michigan, Saturday evening.
This effect, captured on video by Joshua Nowicki, is called fata morgana, which is an optical bending of light by changes in air temperature over bodies of cold water, such as Lake Michigan in the spring.
The skyline of Chicago can be seen from a bluff in downtown St. Joseph, Michigan, 60 miles away.
According to NASA, the Windy City seems so much closer because of the way light is bent through layers of varying density. The light that reaches your eyes comes from different angles across the lake, and thus, the city seems to be growing or even floating.
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...
That looks like it was zoomed in.
Those are only the “tops” of those skyscrapers.
I seem to recall a theory that similar phenomenon of light bending had an opposite effect on the Titanic, pushing the visibility of the iceberg slightly down below the optical horizon.
Don’t think you can see Bob and Emily’s apartment building from there though.
I knew it! The earth IS flat!!!!
This changes EVERYTHING!
;)
who says the earth isn’t flat?
60 miles involves noticeable earth curvature.
That is about the safe minimum distance one would want to be from murder city. As for seeing it...muh.. .
Fata Morgana...isn’t that a Star Wars character?
Glad to see this phenomenon explained or else the good people of St. Joseph, MI would be worried the hellhole of Chiraq is that close to them!
That’s pretty neat...Similar to me sitting in Colorado Springs and seeing the tops of buildings in downtown Denver...hard to imagine...
A much better mathematical and scientific explanation for this phenomena explained here:
Doubting Thomas FReepers need to check it out!
Flat Earthers will use this as proof of their lunacy. When, in fact, it proves the opposite.
There’s a drop of about 2400 feet @ 60 miles.
I thought she was the well endowed young lady who was known as "the kissing bandit." She jumped out of the stands at baseball games and kissed the players.
Ping!....................
"...earth phenomenon..."
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