Happy Super Bowl Sunday everyone. My rant for today:
Forget the drawings. Forget the NASA CGI's and composites. Forget pretending your a scientist or math wiz. Forget long distance pictures of ships on the ocean. Just go outside and photograph a CURVE.
2 people, each 6 feet tall, only 3 miles away from each other should not be able to see each other. Because the curvature would place each 72 inches below the other, and their eyes would be only about 68 inches off the ground. Use a telescope, binoculars, or a laser pointer, it doesn't matter, the curvature will completely block the line of sight, right? Prove it. You can't.
Except you can't because there is no curve.
Try to photograph the curve, in simple easy to do experiment. It can't be done.