Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow

Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by lonelappde on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:56PM (#22409671)

If you mean horizon as in a "horizontal earth service, to which your plane might not be parallel to", Flat Earth is more compatible with horizon than a spherical Earth.

If you mean "where the sky meets the ground far away", it's a finite distance away but maybe you can't ever reach the end, perhaps due to increasing drag force the closer you get to the edge, and a curved prism that distorts optics.

If you allow natural forces to vary with distance from the edge of a disk, you can probably recovery most spherical phenomena.

There's a sort of equivalence between static geometry models and dynamic force models.

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Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by tyingq on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:38PM (#22429164)

I meant where the ground meets the sky. If there's a measurable distance landmark there, the math of "I'm on a sphere" is hard to argue with. Especially if you repeat the exercise in many far flung places.

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