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To: nickcarraway

As a member of an NBA team this guy presumably flies fairly often. If a plane reaches an altitude of 35k feet or higher and you have a clear wide view of the horizon the curvature of the earth can be seen. The ancient Greeks simply by observing ships on the horizon came to the conclusion that the world was curved.


33 posted on 02/18/2017 4:27:57 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

The horizon is curved because the edge of a circle is always curved. When you fly, you just get a higher view of the curved edges of the circular earth.


36 posted on 02/18/2017 5:07:03 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: xp38

The airlines are in on the conspiracy also. The windows are radius-ed to cause the curve of the horizon.

lol


99 posted on 02/18/2017 10:09:44 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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