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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: occrest
And yet, tourists are allowed there.
www.polar-quest.com...
but try to leave the sanctioned area and go exploring on your own.
My thought is they circumvented the ice ring that surrounds the plane we live in.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: angeldoll
You've got to be really, really high to see the curvature.
At an altitude of 33,000 feet the curvature would be just barely perceptible and only when viewed across a wide angle of view. Not so much what you get out the window of a jetliner.
and the most "Antarctica" they can hope to see optimistically would be 2 days on Elephant Island.
Where is the curvature?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: angeldoll
You've got to be really, really high to see the curvature.
At an altitude of 33,000 feet the curvature would be just barely perceptible and only when viewed across a wide angle of view. Not so much what you get out the window of a jetliner.
The point is, is that if you rise on the vertical from a sphere, the horizon will drop away from you, you will have to look down to see the horizon. Since that is not what happens, it would appear that we are on a plane.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: occrest
Yes. For all intents and purposes, the horizon is always at eye level.
Because your eyesight follows a straight line, it forms a tangent with the curve of the Earth. Pretty simple, really.
What's your point?