• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    If you were standing on the Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey about 2km from the Statue of Liberty (height 93m), from the bottom to the top it would be about 2.5 degrees.

    If you were looking at the Eiffel Tower at 6000 km away from NJ, and the earth were flat, the Eiffel Tower (height 312m), from the bottom to the top it would be about 0.003 degrees from bottom to top. If you could line it up so that you could see the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower at the same time, the Eiffel Tower would appear to come up to the first 10 cm of the Statue of Liberty’s base. That’s actually a little bigger than I would have expected, but still tiny.

    I wonder if, even with binoculars, someone could even resolve something that small. Ignoring everything like ocean waves interfering, vegetation getting in the way and atmospheric interference, my guess is that it would be just too small to be seen from that far away without some ultra-powerful telescope.

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    Would that actually be true? Someone should try to render a flat earth, for science, shits, and giggles.

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    Okay, I want to be able to simulate what the world would actually look like from a vantage point where you could see the whole world unwrapped like this.

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      Ok I just spent 20 mins with an LLM and it got me setup with three Js and adding landmarks to a flat earth projection.

      I’ve not the time nor inclination to take it further but happy to share a link to the code if someone else wants to expand on it.

      I am a software developer but my curiosity was piqued and the LLM cured that, but happy to zip up the project.

      Leaves a lot to be desired as it’s not what you would actually see and more a play on this meme where you can use the camera to set vantage point and see how things would align. We used cubes of various heights based on the landmark to represent landmarks so no crazy graphics.

      Edit: Never ceases to amaze how many people downvote LLM mentions like they don’t have some utility. Bias is clearly showing. Like I could tackle this on my own, but do I want to spend hours doing something on a whim or 20 minutes with an LLM to get something functional with a little back and forth is well worth it imo.

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    Don’t forget that it’d be nighttime after a certain distance, because light can only travel so far distance before it disappears.

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      17 hours ago

      Well now you’re assuming the sun is spherical and gives off light in all directions.

      If it were more like a flashlight, then flat earth day and night still works. So checkmate again.

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        15 hours ago

        A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it’s just pointed at one wall. It’s not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.

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          Only because light bounces around.

          If you do so outside, the light disappears into space.

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      the sun is also flat and it sits directly above the earth. it’s just that it rotates so sometimes we can only see the side of the sun that doesn’t have any light.

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    It’s a rare sight and you can only see this on mid of 2020. Not a single report at all because of the lockdown. They want us to drive car so the smog will make sure you couldn’t see any further than your city.

    They are covering up, wake up sheeple!

    Edit: one note here, is that you shouldn’t be able to see Sauron’s Tower at this distance, because it collapsed a long times ago.

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      Eiffel Tower is too far to the right. I think you would have to be in the US standing very close to the Statue of Liberty for this to work. If at all. You’d have to be pretty far north to get the pyramids that far to the left of the Eiffel Tower and still have the Statue of Liberty in the pic. TLDR, I think this might be fake.

      Edit: ok I get what you’re saying, but isn’t the Statue of Liberty in the “foreground” in this pic? Still thinking fake.