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Nitpick: the circle of the horizon, by definition, is equidistant from the observer all the way round. I assume you meant “furthest away in the direction you are looking at a given time”.

The problem with this simple analogy is of course that Flat Earthers will then say "So you mean the Earth is flat like a coin?" and we're back where we started! I'm trying to think of a common object that is shaped like a very flat circular dome, like the section of the Earth's surface above the...

Excuse the poor quality photos (maximum zoom on an iPhone) but here are a couple of pics that demonstrate this effect which I took in Iceland. Here the difference was not even standing up, but simply raising the phone above my head while I sat in a hot pool on the beach! Holding camera low...

On that thread he says Stoney Creek. Which is right next door anyway.

In the absence of weather systems they would be, but there's up to a ~100mb range between the highest and lowest sea-level pressures encountered in the atmosphere, which means that a given flight level will vary in actual altitude above the ground by a couple of thousand feet or more depending...

I was flying back from holiday last weekend and had my Bluetooth GPS antenna connected to my phone so I could see where we were (it's a lot more accurate than the built-in GPS, especially since Apple ruined the GPS capabilities of iPhones, but I digress...). The GPS altitude - which of course is...

Also, a typical camera exposure is of the order of 1/100th of a second (or less in bright light), so if you assume the sensor is 1 square centimetre then even at 1 per minute then you'd only be looking at a one in several thousand chance of a particle passing through a given photograph. And...

I think the last two names are Janice and Jessica. Then squeezed in to the right is "Pete Rathgeb + 6 pax". The only one I can't make out is the one before Doug Bands. This page claims it is "MCXG": "MC XG – Stands for “Royalty” of XG Co., Ltd. Believed to be Wang Zhenhua as it is an older sub...

I have a FR24 subscription (which I forgot I was still paying for!) and there is nothing I can see in the area. This is the nearest aircraft, assuming Mick has the time zone right, and it doesn't fit with the track at all.

That second photo looks rather similar to me. Although the cloud in the OP looks possibly too thick for this to be the explanation? One thing I would say regarding the possibility of a cosmic ray strike in exactly the right plane being “vanishingly small” as @Amber Robot said: well even if it...

I'm still really puzzled by this dark area between her left arm and the table umbrella pole. The perspective seems totally off, as it goes from being behind her body (which is obviously behind the tabletop) to obscuring part of the book on which she is resting her elbow. Edit... unless it is...

You would think there must be some other photos taken at this location around the same time on social media showing that poster. I've looked on Instagram and Twitter but no luck so far.

The videos from Achinsk were more like 13km (8 miles) away, possibly 15km if I am correct on the location of the second video. This is backed up by the time it takes for the sound of the explosion to reach the camera, as one comment on YouTube points out:

Very similar angle to the other video on Yandex maps, close to the location I suggested above (Zagorodnaya Ulitsa)

Geolocating the footage using the prominent buildings and main road: The highlighted street is Ulitsa Kravchenko. Building 2, and the long low blocks near it, are here: So the photo with the family looking on was taken from somewhere in the blue circle on the hill: (The...

I'm confused: this picture seems to be taken at night (not just an exposure issue: there are clearly lights from buildings in the foreground) whereas the arms depot explosion happened during the daytime. Or was there more than one explosion?

That looks rather similar to the Facebook selfie pic (labelled as 8chan in the OP) - in both of the "selfie" pictures his nose looks much more prominent than it does in photos taken from a greater distance with normal cameras. It's the same effect.

The 8chan profile photo looks like it was taken with the front-facing "selfie camera" on a phone (or possibly a close up on a computer webcam). As most people who have used the front-facing camera on their phone know, it's not very flattering. The wide-angle lens and close-up viewpoint distorts...

So does anybody know where Geraint Davies got the idea that trees are being cut down en masse "around Swindon"? I can't find anything about this, and, as Seema Kennedy points out, the government has committed to planting more trees. The only news stories I can find from the Swindon area relate...

The sprinkler spraying towards the camera would certainly suggest that. @ParanormalInSeattle Is there any footage available from before the start of this clip, or is this the start of it? This video shows a vaguely similar kind of square shape from a water drop on the lens. Source...