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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago

If you were standing on the Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey about 2km from the Statue of Liberty (height 93m), from the bottom to the top it would be about 2.5 degrees.

If you were looking at the Eiffel Tower at 6000 km away from NJ, and the earth were flat, the Eiffel Tower (height 312m), from the bottom to the top it would be about 0.003 degrees from bottom to top. If you could line it up so that you could see the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower at the same time, the Eiffel Tower would appear to come up to the first 10 cm of the Statue of Liberty's base. That's actually a little bigger than I would have expected, but still tiny.

I wonder if, even with binoculars, someone could even resolve something that small. Ignoring everything like ocean waves interfering, vegetation getting in the way and atmospheric interference, my guess is that it would be just too small to be seen from that far away without some ultra-powerful telescope.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 19 hours ago

They probably think that your render distance is limited for [insert reason here] or something.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta turn around to see them

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Where would the photographer be here that they can see the pyramids with the Statue of Liberty (what a joke) is to the left of them? Saudi Arabia maybe?

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

I can see the eye of sauron. My guess is middle earth

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Seems you have better spatial planning than me as the tool that should not be named said Saudi is out, but Canada is a good shout.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

I'm an inverse round earther. The earth is round, only we are on the wrong side of it.

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Okay, I want to be able to simulate what the world would actually look like from a vantage point where you could see the whole world unwrapped like this.

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

now i need this

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Ok I just spent 20 mins with an LLM and it got me setup with three Js and adding landmarks to a flat earth projection.

I’ve not the time nor inclination to take it further but happy to share a link to the code if someone else wants to expand on it.

I am a software developer and my curiosity was piqued and the LLM cured that, but happy to zip up the project.

Leaves a lot to be desired as it’s not what you would actually see and more a play on this meme where you can use the camera to set vantage point and see how things would align. We used cubes of various heights based on the landmark to represent landmarks so no crazy graphics.

Edit: Never ceases to amaze how many people downvote LLM mentions like they don’t have some utility. Bias is clearly showing. Like I could tackle this on my own, but do I want to spend hours doing something on a whim or 20 minutes with an LLM to get something functional with a little back and forth is well worth it imo.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Would that actually be true? Someone should try to render a flat earth, for science, shits, and giggles.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/167049/assuming-a-flat-world-and-no-obstacles-how-far-could-you-see

Basically, you could see for a long way but your eyeballs suck so it largely doesn't matter. Even with the best telescope and optics on a perfect day you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere which scatter light.

Also, Barad-dΓ»r was destroyed when Frodo threw the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom so it wouldn't be there.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere

Lol if you're going to abandon the round earth theory, you might as well dump the concept of an atmosphere, too.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Right, more of an atmo-plane at that point.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Don't forget that it'd be nighttime after a certain distance, because light can only travel so far distance before it disappears.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well now you’re assuming the sun is spherical and gives off light in all directions.

If it were more like a flashlight, then flat earth day and night still works. So checkmate again.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it's just pointed at one wall. It's not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

Only because light bounces around.

If you do so outside, the light disappears into space.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 23 hours ago

But we wouldn't see sunrise/sunset.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

the sun is also flat and it sits directly above the earth. it’s just that it rotates so sometimes we can only see the side of the sun that doesn’t have any light.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago

One does not simply walk into Flat Earth

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's a rare sight and you can only see this on mid of 2020. Not a single report at all because of the lockdown. They want us to drive car so the smog will make sure you couldn't see any further than your city.

They are covering up, wake up sheeple!

[–] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's very far away and we're still seeing the light from when it still stood

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Oh, right. Makes sense.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Pray I do not remake it further.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Make sense, Sauron didn't die he just weakened and took ages to recover.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

maybe OP has elf ancestry? physics doesn't really apply to them so maybe they can see into the past

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That black tower center-left is in Washington DC is it not?

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its tel aviv but they are very similar.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks a lot like Sauron's tower ngl.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well who else would build Barad-dΓ»r?

Come to think of it the Occupation Regime of West Palestine is more like Minas Morgul since this the main location from which the empire of darkness unleashes it's hordes onto the human kingdoms of the middle east. And I would concur that Barad-dur is Washington DC. (The one ring is capitalism btw)

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Lool talk about PERSPECTIVE!

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

POV: you're in Australia

(Hypothetically the only way the arrangement of Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, and Statue of Liberty works on flat Earth)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Eiffel Tower is too far to the right. I think you would have to be in the US standing very close to the Statue of Liberty for this to work. If at all. You’d have to be pretty far north to get the pyramids that far to the left of the Eiffel Tower and still have the Statue of Liberty in the pic. TLDR, I think this might be fake.

Edit: ok I get what you’re saying, but isn’t the Statue of Liberty in the β€œforeground” in this pic? Still thinking fake.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

Telescope lens is getting crazy out here

[–] renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

not much of a clear day in that image

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I think that is a shot from "Babe: Pig in the City" movie, from 1998.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago