It doesn't you're a dodging liar who can't debate a simple picture

Use your words. Show us that you understand the content material and explain it.



No, he was not identified as "an officer." He was identified as a NATO Sea Sparrow surface systems instructor. The only thing that means is that he is qualified as a more senior petty officer (enlisted man, like myself) who teaches junior petty officers to operate Sea Sparrow missile launchers. The Sea Sparrow is a short range (10 nautical mile) missile defense system. And unlike a sniper, who has to hit a tiny little bullseye from a long way away, the missile has a kill zone of about 25 feet to any side of its target, so no, there's zero reason to correct for the Coriolis effect at such a short range with such a wide targeting tolerance. The only thing he's saying in the video is that you don't need to account for the Coriolis effect in targeting, not that the Navy has determined that it doesn't exist.

Then, he claims an outright lie (just like you do!) in stating you can zoom in on ships far out at the horizon and see their waterline. Unlike this supposed "expert," I stood watch on the bridge, utilizing what we called the "big eyes," and can personally attest to seeing JUST the top of the mast of ships over the horizon.

He claims that the ability to detect via radar targets 50 miles away "doesn't make sense," which tells me he's not an expert at all, because the system he's talking about (the SPY1A/D phased array radar) uses surface wave propagation to achieve that range, and HE SHOULD KNOW THAT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_wave Your "expert" is ignorant as fuck, just like you.

If you were to take a string and pull it tight across the face of a model globe, the shortest distance between 2 points will be a straight line over the curve. But if you take the surrounding area of that globe and stretch it out into a flat map, that course is no longer a straight line. YES, navigators of the Earth have to make course corrections to make the shortest trip. Saying they don't is just a lie, like so many others from you.

So you think you see the curve of the Earth because you dont know what the mirror line is or how it works, um ok.

Isn't just the top of a mast able to fool you since when it is reflected in the mirror line - it still looks straight? You need to watch the entire process to identify what the mirror line is and how it rises as ship go further away from you and eventually the ship is hidden behind this, this is why line of sight pencil beam radar works within 50 miles - because its not using eyes like you.



This post was edited by card_sultan on Jan 21 2017 03:15pm

The flight path from New York to London. Not a straight line. Great circle navigation.

Most people aren't 5000 km high...
I say "most" because im pretty sure, you are 5000 km high...

No, dumbass. You can't see the curvature itself so low to the surface. What you CAN see is the evidence of that curvature, in the form of partially visible objects over the horizon.

where is earth?

Somebody drew a curve, this is cartoon proof for retards.



Amended version for idiots here , the line of sight to view the horizon is always 180° - u always need to look up at 90° - no matter what height you are at 2 meters or in a plane at 5000 m up

In the Heliotard explanation is that angle is never 90° and the line of sight is never 180° because it has to work the same in doth directions, like IRL



Do you think that line of sight in that bottom picture would be 180° if the person was drawn to scale?

What if they are in a hot Air Balloon - is it a 180° straight line then?



Nice circular logic - How is "evidence" of the curvature not simply the curvature - nice semantics to try and hide your confused thinking.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Jan 21 2017 03:43pm

I was watching that video and i guess you never noticed this "technical" mistake that proves its not a single image, lolololol

No, you ignorant retard, someone illustrated the routes they are already known to take, much like this map of world shipping lanes (including the source data).





Because the curvature itself is imperceptible at low altitude, moron.

@ bold: more like "your confusing thinking," because you obviously have no capacity to grasp reality.