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I've never seen independent evidence that any of his experiments actually happened.

Right; your test is in dry California air. The P900 at max optical zoom is 40 power. A 3 foot target at 3 miles is like looking at a 3 foot target 1 1/3 football fields away (sans endzones) with the naked eye. Easy. At six miles, it's like seeing the same target at 264 yards. I've shot at a...

(edby: You seem to be already thinking in this direction; just wanted to add some encouragement.) Activity like this is bound to catch the attention of whatever government agency. Instead of fighting them you might as well take advantage of the historical significance of this and get some...

The video could be used to introduce the idea that water doesn't really bend as if it were a single, solid piece of plastic. Water is a liquid. Each water molecule in the ocean is seeking its local level. Better? I've been reading the comments. I saw the objection, as I thought I would, that...

The video does show the concept that water doesn't really bend. Each column of water points to the center of the Earth. If you had a spherical magnet and sprinkled iron fillings on the entire surface, the iron fillings aren't bending.

Wouldn't work with a laser. Lasers diverge. You get a cone of light, not a pencil thin line that goes on forever. Lasers are basically spotlights.

Wow, I just dredged up some really old memories from around 1962. Rocket to the Moon at Disneyland... http://www.yesterland.com/moonrocket.html ...had a shorter version of that episode: There were movie screens on the floor and ceiling. The seat bottoms moved up and down to simulate...

Carpenter wrote at length about this idea in his book Water, Not Convex! The Earth Not a Globe, but sadly I can't find an eBook or excerpt. Here's my attempt at trying to understand. I think I grok, but it's like trying to screw fog. (This is the best photo I could find, but it should be...

Okay, I've spent the last hour doing some research rather than relying on memory. Just a thumbnail: Samuel Rowbotham originated the idea that the Wallace experiment (and the entire issue of the dip of the horizon) was flawed due to the optics of telescopes. William Carpenter had a completely...

And the silt may be full of debris, making it lumpy. ... and gas bubbles. But there's no harm in giving it a try, I guess.

I don't know. I think there was a reason Wallace used a barge. I think if you try this in real life, you'll find that the setup will be unstable. Silt on the bottom of a canal is unstable stuff - the base will sink, tilt... and this will continue to happen and things will change. A barge...

The thinking seems to be about extremes. The distances are extreme therefore the tolerances for the observer are extreme -ly small. There's no analytical evidence for this. One could just as well say the tolerances are extremely large, but he chose small because it fits his agenda.

This is a rationalization defending the feeling that tilting causes a parallax shift - or in a larger sense, FE itself. There is nothing in the science of optics that would suggest or support this, and I'm certain that this idea did not come from any knowledge of optics. It was pulled out of a...

Because, while thinking in system 1, every thought is an isolated and immutable association. This is the infamous Filing Cabinet Syndrome. Each thought or belief has its own file folder in the cabinet and only one folder can be open at a time. When a new thought - or "file folder" - is...

It can be difficult to understand what FE believers are thinking. I think I've finally figured out what it is that's bothering them in this case. Part of the confusion is that both sides have been assuming they are thinking of this as a problem with perspective. But the problem, as they...

If I'm reading your post correctly, you're having difficulty understanding why the Earth's surface doesn't move out from under the atmosphere. Let me ask you a question. As you can see, the cruise ship in this video is clearly moving. Typical speed for a cruise ship is 25 knots (28 mph - 46...

Even odder... it looks like there are interference patterns. I can't think of any reason for that.

The best I can say is that we appear to be seeing an inverted image of the Rogers Centre Dome above an erect image. The erect image is only the upper part of the dome, which itself would normally be hidden. The inverted image has a flat top because the erect image is cut off in a straight line...

More info from Dr. Young's site: MOCK MIRAGE: an inverted image produced by a thermal inversion below eye level. (See the ray diagram on the mirage page for details.) While the classical inferior and superior mirages can be regarded, for some purposes, as due to internal reflections, no such...

From Dr. Young's site: https://aty.sdsu.edu/explain/atmos_refr/duct.html A duct is an atmospheric structure that traps rays within a few minutes of arc of the astronomical horizon, so that they cannot escape from the atmosphere, but are periodically bent back down, so as to follow the curvature...