Quote (card_sultan @ Jan 20 2017 08:55am)
That because ships dont disappear over the horizon , once they pass the wave front edge they begin to be affected by a visual distortion known as the mirror line - which is an optical inversion of itself and this effect rises because of perspective until this line of distortion rises enough to optically hide the boat as it travels out to sea.
i posted one of thousands of pictures. some have VERY large object where clearly half of it is beneath water under telescopic magnification. if we were talking small object you may have a point, but the mirror line is not a mirror zone. it doesn't extend much outside of a small area, which clearly disappearing objects behind hte horizon do.
the problem with this is you can't simply admit something that anyone with a telescope can observe on a clear day of calm seas because it decimates your theory. it's not as if this takes some sort of NASA help to obsever, anyone with a 20$ telescope can observe it, it is beyond question. it is not distorted you can watch it disappear in real time, slowly ebbing away.
again mirror line (which is a real thing) =/= mirror zone.
your inability to acknowledge simply observable facts that put holes in your theory is the basis for your intellectual dishonesty, see how i acknowledge mirror lines but talk about how they aren't sufficient to hide large objects?
This post was edited by thesnipa on Jan 20 2017 09:06am