I COULD BE WRONG but if I understand the math correctly, the mountains captured in the world record for long distance photography should not be visible. The top of the most distant mountain should be about a half-mile below the curvature of the Earth.
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The article itself states the picture was possible because of exceptional wheather and refractive favorble circumstances. All you have to do is pause this video and read it.
Learn about refraction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkv0uZTP_zo
If the earth were flat we wouldn't even have a record for "World Wide Long Distance Photos". Now follow along, It would simply be broken every time a stronger magnification of lens were to come out. That is why you can not stand on Mount Everest with the strongest telescope and see England or anything else further than what curve and refraction would allow for. This photo is the world record for that basically. By this very example of long distance photo records it is shown that if the earth were flat it would be broken every time a better lens is created which is not really the case. It's the fact that the right atmospheric refraction has to occur for the photographer to even be able to break a previous record. The photographer who took this even talks about this. If you just don't understand refraction a simple example is why a pencil put halfway into a glass of water appears to distort or bend. Refraction of light is the change in direction of light when it passes from one transparent substance to another at an angle or other direction. Like light through a prism creating a rainbow. In the case of this photo it is colder denser air that causes this refraction.
Como tem gente idiota nesse mundo que ainda acredita que a terra não é redonda. Tem que ser muito imbecil mesmo…
Not joking but it might sound stupid but where do numbers come from?