How would all the pilots and astronauts not know? I don't really care what people believe and as you said.. daily life... It doesn't matter.
I just can't imagine that people can't figure it out.
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How would all the pilots and astronauts not know? I don't really care what people believe and as you said.. daily life... It doesn't matter.
I just can't imagine that people can't figure it out.
When you get high in altitude, the earth looks curved. This is because of your curved eyes and the horizon being so far away.
What is missing from all of this, that EVERY pilot knows, is that the horizon is always at eye level.
If we lived on a ball earth (of the size they say) then as you got higher, you would be looking more and more down.
But, then again, the atmosphere is only scant miles thick. So, you go up 4 miles, the earth is (supposedly) 8,000 miles wide, so, that is a big difference.
Here is an even more interesting fact. You take a sphere, and then place yourself anywhere on it, the horizon is a set of points equal distance from you. Or, the definition of a circle. A circle that is flat in its z-axis. So, any time you see the horizon all around, it is flat.