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74) From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea- level, the island of Gorgona can often be seen 8 1 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Gorgona should be hidden beyond 3,332 feet of curvature.

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On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:57:02 -0000 (UTC), Geocentric Universe
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74) From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea- level, the island of Gorgona can often be seen 8 1 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Gorgona should be hidden beyond 3,332 feet of curvature.

Your geometry or arithmetic is faulty. At an altitude of 70 feet, the
horizon is approximately 10 miles away.

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On 12/31/2024 10:08 AM, Barry Schwarz wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:57:02 -0000 (UTC), Geocentric Universe <earth@not.ball> wrote:

74) From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea- level, the island of Gorgona can often be seen 8 1 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Gorgona should be hidden beyond 3,332 feet of curvature.

Your geometry or arithmetic is faulty. At an altitude of 70 feet, the horizon is approximately 10 miles away.

Actually it is his brain that is faulty. He is a FlatTard. By
definition, his brain is faulty.

He is trying to "prove" that the Earth is flat. Since it is clearly
NOT flat (and has been known to be round for thousands of years), any
claim he spews out as "proof" is going to be comical.

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Le 2024-12-31 à 05:57, Geocentric Universe a écrit :

74) From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea- level, the island of Gorgona can often be seen 8 1 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Gorgona should be hidden beyond 3,332 feet of curvature.

Just like ALL the other flatards, you use a calculator that DO NOT take atmospheric refraction into account.
Then, you always lie about the elevation of the observer.
Yes, Genoa have a MEAN elevation of 70 feet above sea level, BUT, the observation mentioned is from the top of some nearby hills that are over
700 METRE above sea level. That's over 30 times higher.

You never take the height of whatever is seen into account.
If we can see the top 10 metre of a 2000 metre tall object, you always
claim that we can see it all.

When you say «often», what you really mean is a few specific days of the year. Days that are notable for the exceptional amount of atmospheric refraction.

Your display name is a lie. The universe is NOT geocentric. It's centre
is not even within the Milky Way.

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Geocentric Universe wrote on 31/12/24 9:57 pm:

74) From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea- level,
the island of Gorgona can often be seen 8 1 miles away. If Earth were
a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Gorgona should be hidden beyond
3,332 feet of curvature.

If you plug those figures into the calculator/formula found here ....

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/distance-to-horizon

... what figure do you get??
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