Quote (card_sultan @ Jan 17 2017 12:46pm)
This is from a video to show you how to figure out how far the horizon is away and the most important thing to understand is that the angle at the horizon will always be 90° - leaving the angle to view the horizon + the angle of inclination between the center of the earth and you and the horizon as the other 90° and so no matter what scale of model you use it will always be less than 90° and it shows how wrong that thinking is that the horizon is up, and that it is the curve of the earth.
We dont live in flatland so showing or try to explain a 3 dimensional perspective with a 2 d side view of flatland understanding is inherently flawed.
It's also not my drawing. This is a Heliotards drawing showing you his retarded logic and why he cant understand flat earthers.
Except you magically assumed the angle is 45 degrees. Yeah, the tangent line is always at 90 to the radius, but the angle the person is looking at depends on their size. As you shrink the person down, the viewing angle will approach 90 as well. In other words, for a very small person on a very large world, the viewing angle to see the horizon will be almost 90 degrees, making the person look straight ahead of them and making the horizon appear to be at eye level. Which, amazingly, is exactly what happens in the real world.