Quote (russian @ Jan 17 2017 11:08am)
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.
Not magically assumed, he drew a triangle to show how to calculate the distance to the horizon: If the angle at the horizon is always 90° , then in order to view to view it will never equal 90° on ball earth.
Are you blind? Don't you see the triangle to determine the perspective he drew?
An isosceles triangle is a triangle with (at least) two equal sides and one of the angles is shown to be 90° and the 3 angles on the inside of a triangle always add to 180°
This number is what he is saying with this drawing and then he uses the 90° symbol to make you think its correct.
If the angle at the horizon is 90° and the angle to view the horizon is 90° you get a flat line - not a triangle that proves your flawed thinking that a 2 d side view of ball earth can explain a 3 dimensional perspective that is only explainable by referring to the third axis of perspective.
This proves that Heliotards think the Horizon is the curve of the earth and how flawed their logic is, its beyond stupid.
This post was edited by card_sultan on Jan 17 2017 08:25pm