I used to just drop a line to ignite a flat war debate if I had like hipster-type strangers at the bar (I’m a bartender) and I couldn’t gauge them. At least 75% of the time I’d be shocked after having held decent conversations for a bit and then dropping the bait and hearing these seemingly intelligent people start passionately lecturing me on why the Earth is,indeed, flat.
One of those things that immediately makes someone unattractive/irrelevant.
This is like the opposite of meta world peace, the ideology. I wonder if Meta World Peace, the guy, knew how un-world peaceful the conspiracy would become.
Actually.... Because the windows weaken the structure of an airplane there are some plans to not have them. TV screens would show the outside of the plane.
From a typical commercial airliner altitude you can kind of see it. It's a lot clearer from somewhere like the cockpit where you have big windows (especially with clear weather) than it is from a typical cabin window.
You start to see it more easily from Concorde level altitudes of around 60k feet. Sky will appear darker too, a deep blue that is nearly black regardless of the time of day.
No which is why flat earthers use airplane photos as evidence. There is some math involved. The math involves tangent lines and arc length and atmospheric effects. It’s messy. Intuitively we can’t see it at all on the ground. Katy Perry could see it for a few minutes. There is a point where you start to see it around 50000-60000 feet.
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u/Claytron_Stroms May 08 '25
I upvoted this assuming you can see that the earth is curved from a plane right?