"Just across the bay?" You need to specify the distance between the camera and the boat in the video, otherwise it's just pure nonsense, because you cannot determine the curvature of the earth over short distances. Curvature can only be proven over hundreds of miles, if not thousands. In other words, yes, the earth looks flat from just offshore, but if you accept the fact that the circumferance of the earth is about 25,000 miles, you're gonna need to include a little bit more data about distances involved instead of talk of "reflections" and "mirages". Get a super powerful telescope or something, get on a boat just off Hawaii and aim it West and tell me if you can see a tanker leaving Japanese or Chinese ports.
Something tells me you'll just see water...
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You are not correct in saying that you cannot determine curvature over short distances as the horizon is 3 miles away for a 6 foot man and they say we see boats go over the curvature. However it does not happen. And you saying that we should see Japan from Hawaii is laughable. I know science says you can see 95 Quadrillion Miles distant suns but that is of course nonsense.
The human eye has a limit just like a digital camera determined by its focal length and resolution. Telescopes improve image size, but not resolution. What happens on the horizon is like zooming in on a holiday snap, zoom in on a single pixel and trying to tell from the pixels colour what that actually is. Is it sky or water?? Add into the equation all the dust and pollution between you and the horizon and you get the picture ( or rather you get your LIMIT. No curve, just limit. The reason you think you see a curve left to right is because of the 360 degree LIMIT around you. Take your LIMIT, extend it in front of you and rotate your body on the spot 360. You just drawn a LIMIT CIRCLE around you. Your eye sees this as a slight curve from left to right. It is in fact FLAT. If you now go superman and start rising up in the air, the horizon magically rises up to meet your eye, If the ground beneath you was a ball, the horizon would fall away. Next time your in airplane, look out the window and look how high up the horizon is, I guarantee its level with your eye.
THIS EARTH IS FLAT AND INFINITE. You just happen to be lucky enough to be living in a thawed out patch of ice.
http://www.smarterthanthat.com/astronomy/top-10-ways-to-know-the-earth-is-not-flat
http://www.smarterthanthat.com/astronomy/top-10-ways-to-know-the-earth-is-not-flat
@killswitch
You're going to have to do better than linking to already debunked experiments and corrupt thinking. Do you really believe that we didn't go and look all that stuff up? Do you think we didn't go to school?
We all believed the earth was a ball before becoming flat earthers, the difference came when we used our brains.
If your going to prove ball earth, then link to something that I DONT ALREADY KNOW.
Being in an airplane at 35,000 is not high enough nor do you have a big enough field of view to detect the curvature of the earth or detect a sense of height above the horizon. We are dealing with something quite massive, the earth is 25,000 miles around, so if your puny human eyes are going to detect height above or curvature of the horizon your gonna have to be at least 60,000 ft up. This has been documented in interviews with U2 and SR-71 pilots and even passengers on the Concorde.