How High Do You Have To Be To See The Curvature of The Earth 360/VR

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2020
  • It's well understood that from the surface of the Earth the curvature of the planet is not readily visible, but, as you travel higher the shape of the world becomes apparent to a casual glance. So I wanted to actually quantify this in an visual form using TH-cam's 360 Video feature, it's obviously best experienced through a VR headset, or a 'Cardboard' style viewer, but you can also use the web browser if you just want to appreciate the visuals.
    Music 'Future Memory' by Test Shot Starfish
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  • @gastonpossel
    @gastonpossel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2659

    "To get to this altitude (500 m), Mad Mike needed a steam powered rocket, whereas us normal people would have to content ourselves with climbing a hill" hahahahaha, brilliant

    • @massimookissed1023
      @massimookissed1023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      Yep, dumbass Mike didn't even get above the surrounding mountains.

    • @captainoblivious_yt
      @captainoblivious_yt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      WTF even is a "steam powered rocket". Like how would you even propel a rocket with steam in the first place?

    • @bbgun061
      @bbgun061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      Captain Oblivious Fill a pressure vessel with steam, and then direct it out of a nozzle pointed downwards. It’s very inefficient by rocket standards, but not difficult to build.

    • @daredaemon8878
      @daredaemon8878 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@captainoblivious_yt A rocket engine operates by expelling mass from the nozzle. As water boils into a gas that expands and is expelled from the nozzle.
      Your efficiency is going to be awful, but it'll work.

    • @desperatelyseekingrealnews
      @desperatelyseekingrealnews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@captainoblivious_ytA fuel source, hot water, a pressurised boiler, a piston or two Duh!!!!😉🙄😁🤣😃😄😅😆 😂🤗

  • @my3dprintedlife
    @my3dprintedlife 3 ปีที่แล้ว +729

    That bit about the kid on the plane sounded way too specific.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      But horribly accurate! I haven't had a window seat for fifteen bloody years - and I'm the only one who actually WANTS to look out of the window!!

    • @cmdraftbrn
      @cmdraftbrn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      kids ruin everything. and so do most adults.

    • @AustVandross
      @AustVandross 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I think Scott might be a little salty about his last flight, just a hunch

    • @rpavlik1
      @rpavlik1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Probably hasn't had many flights recently, and probably bitter about his last one.
      I didn't fly often, but several times a year for business, and I don't think I've ever ended up next to a kid. Let the kid look out during takeoff, that's the most exciting bit anyway, then have them and their fellow traveler take middle and aisle. Parents don't like dragging kids over people to the bathroom either.

    • @Gribbo9999
      @Gribbo9999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      At my age an aisle seat is far more attractive to my bladder than the window view is to my eyes.

  • @antonburger01
    @antonburger01 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I am simply amazed how much effort some guys like Scott Manly make to give us fantastic videos like this. And for free! Thank you very much, Scott. It's truly amazing.

    • @rend.1
      @rend.1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bro the video is fake what are you talking about ?!!!

    • @antonburger01
      @antonburger01 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rend.1 Obviously I know it's a program that simulates how it would be, don't be ridiculous! I'm just saying it's fantastic that he goes through the effort to make such videos for our education and entertainment! Nowhere did I say that I thought he actually went to space!?!

    • @fromnorway643
      @fromnorway643 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antonburger01
      👍👍👍

    • @wulfrache
      @wulfrache 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      IT amazes me the length these nuts will go to in order to perpetuate the "round" earth theory.

    • @davecorley5514
      @davecorley5514 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wulfrache It doesn't amaze me at all. Everyone has a worldview. Again, EVERYONE has a worldview. Some call these paradigms. Others call these models. Still others calls these: "well, that's just the way the world works!" Our job in a civil world is to respect each other's worldview, offer reasoned alternatives to their worldview and ACCEPT their response with civility.
      The alternative to that reaction is denigration of their worldview and ad hominem attacks" "...these nuts...". 98% of the world's population in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries dogmatically believed that the earth was the center of our universe. Was Copernicus "nuts"? Was Galileo?
      Offer reasonable doubt and alternatives to those with different worldviews. But if they don't budge, and they are grown-ass adults, leave them to their opinions. But act personally with reason and doubt. For those higher in the hierarchical political chain, ... there's the rub. Public decisions must be made that require rejection, but not suppression of alternative views: First Amendment stuff in the US Constitution.

  • @chance_savvy
    @chance_savvy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This might be the coolest TH-cam video I've watched in about 15 years lol

  • @martinvillamayor5354
    @martinvillamayor5354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    Let's appreciate him that he went to pluto to record this

    • @thatman8562
      @thatman8562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      More than that, he went out to Pluto.

    • @martinvillamayor5354
      @martinvillamayor5354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thatman8562 true I'll change it

    • @alvinxyz7419
      @alvinxyz7419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The power of cameraman

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Earth is flat, Pluto is a planet. NASA lied to us. We live in a computer simulated dome operating on ancient illuminati pyramid projector system that elon musk is upgrading to led solar panel display with star link. "Star link" Strange name if you dont know it will be used to display stars in the night sky. Solar panels are LED displays, just reverse the polarity. Elon even admitted we live in a computer simulation. Coincidence he will launch more led displays into orbit than number of "stars" we can see? I think not.

    • @vrenshrrg
      @vrenshrrg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@pluto8404 I see why they kicked you out now.

  • @michaelgove9349
    @michaelgove9349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +885

    "How High Do You Have To Be To See The Curvature of The Earth?"
    .
    Third joint usually does it for me, *depending on the carpet.*

    • @humanactivated1017
      @humanactivated1017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ya but that’s only if you are a flat earther……

    • @floatswitch
      @floatswitch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Took the words right from my mouth.

    • @jidofole
      @jidofole 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Superblocky

    • @as17ns22
      @as17ns22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Came here looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.

    • @capnhardway
      @capnhardway 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Haha you beat me! 😂

  • @Baldevi
    @Baldevi ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wonderful! This was so beautiful, and indeed displays just how easy it is to see the curvature of the Earth, and that the curve is not an "illusion due to refraction." Great job!

    • @BruceAllnitey
      @BruceAllnitey ปีที่แล้ว

      Yay! You've made a shitty video game. When do we see the Death star..? Oooh

    • @jrock5995
      @jrock5995 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You must be a pleb or a peasant because part of the freemasons devine knowledge is that the earth is flat. They just say it's not. And what you see is what you have been told to see. It's Really lame to be a pleb or peasant? How is it I don't know because I'm way better than most people. And I'm in the know and have been versed in the devine knowledge. And I see you are not.

    • @jaketaylor7273
      @jaketaylor7273 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's CGI Stupid. Not proof

    • @SpitSharp
      @SpitSharp 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This video was to trick you it’s all CGI , no curve and nobody living upside down at the bottom of a spinning ball or any other angle😂😂😂

  • @themanunleashed
    @themanunleashed ปีที่แล้ว

    Not going to lie. Didn't expect the vr mode when I clicked on this. Super cool!!!

  • @randominternetbro6562
    @randominternetbro6562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +399

    "How high do you have to be to see the curve of earth?" Me: I don't know, but we bout to find out *lights a bong*

    • @randominternetbro6562
      @randominternetbro6562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Ry Guy I steal no comments. I abhor plagiarism.

    • @haydentravis3348
      @haydentravis3348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I miss my bong T__T pipes just make it so harsh.

    • @mellamopepe619
      @mellamopepe619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      This is the content I was looking for 🤣

    • @99slacker999999999
      @99slacker999999999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Smoke two joints, and then smoke two joints...

    • @victormponcec
      @victormponcec 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Came 4 this

  • @APurpleSpy
    @APurpleSpy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    "The horizon is depressed"
    Me too man, me too...

    • @tinkmarshino
      @tinkmarshino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cheer up brother.. at least you don't have a lot of things crawling around on you... do you?

    • @untrusted8008
      @untrusted8008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Funny comment, but if anybody reading this is actually depressed or have other mental health issues then seek therapy and start working on the issue

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@tinkmarshino we all harbor numerous microbes and mites on our skin. So yes, he does.

    • @tinkmarshino
      @tinkmarshino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Guru_1092 I stand corrected my brother.. you are correct...

    • @peabody3000
      @peabody3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      which is why you need to get high

  • @davecorley5514
    @davecorley5514 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Thanks for the video.
    I was an officer on three nuclear powered submarines during the 70s and 80s. I spent 2-1/4 years of my life below the surface of the world’s oceans.
    As a part of that time, I stood hundreds of OOD (Officer of the Deck) watches. Part of the routine of an OOD’s watch routine was bringing the sub to communications depth. At communications depth (periscope depth) a continuous visual watch on at least one of the two optical periscopes was required. Periscope depth time was usually about twenty minutes with about ten-to-twelve hours between excursions.
    At PD, the observer was required to rotate the scope at about six degrees per second, searching for surface contacts. When a contact was detected, the observer would make a visual observation, providing true bearing, subtended vertical angle from the contact’s waterline to the tip of their tallest mast, and the contact’s angle-on-the bow.
    The periscope optics contained a reticle with horizontal markings placed at even intervals from the low point to the high point of the optical field of view. The observer would estimate the number of these horizontal markings that were subtended by the contact. He would report this as, for example, “2-1/2 divisions in high power, use 100 foot masthead height.” A circular slide rule was used to convert the measured division count to contact 1:22 range.
    Now to the point: Depending upon the sea state, mission stealth objectives and other factors, the OOD would command the Diving Officer of the Watch to maintain keel depth such that anywhere from three to six feet of periscope mast was exposed above the surface. But a contact beyond about ten thousand yards (five nautical miles) would ALWAYS be “hull-down”, meaning that the curvature of the earth prohibited the OOD from seeing the waterline of the target, even with our periscope 3-6 feet above the surface.
    So, at what altitude can the curvature of the earth be detected? My answer: At sea, 3 feet above sea level when staring at a contact more than two nautical miles distant.
    Legend had it that, when Columbus left Europe to sail to the New World, observers at the port where his three ships departed eventually saw only the masts of the ships as they sailed beyond the horizon.
    I’ve mentioned my experiences to flat-earthers on several occasions. Their response has been to use spherical geometry and circular argument to “prove” that what I saw were mirages.
    I’m reading Copernicus’ “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” now. A forward by a Protestant theologian, Andrew Osiander, in 1543 made the point that the large percentage of astronomers, mathematicians and philosophers of that time were either too lazy or had a vested interest in the theory of an earth-centered system of planetary motion and the accompanying idea of planetary epicycles to explain very large errors in planetary angular observations.
    So, five hundred years ago, the prevailing theory of planetary motion was protected by laziness, stupidity and arrogance. One man, Copernicus, offered a competing theory that explained and accounted for the large difference in observational errors. He and his theory were roundly attacked. That any planetary object revolves around any object other than the earth was sacrilege. What’s more, Copernicus was a trained theologian and deeply Catholic.
    It would not be until the invention by Galileo of a telescope and his discovery of the revolution of four moons of Jupiter revolving around that planet that confirmed that at least four “planetary” objects clearly did not revolve around the earth.
    While Galileo was forced to renege on his discovery by the Catholic Church, he retained his faith. The deeper and more meaningful lesson learned by us through Galileo’s and Copernicus’ experiences is that deep religious faith can be preserved in the face of dogmatic reaction. And that God’s Nature can be more accurately revealed to confirm our faith in Him through the scientific method. His World is wonderful, as is His Son.

    • @vickiezaccardo1711
      @vickiezaccardo1711 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you for such an educational and detailed comment.

    • @maxfan1591
      @maxfan1591 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "The deeper and more meaningful lesson learned by us through Galileo’s and Copernicus’ experiences is that deep religious faith can be preserved in the face of dogmatic reaction."
      The thing that frustrates me about flat earthers is how many of them want to make their belief about their religion versus an atheist globe conspiracy. Thank you for an eloquent explanation of how wrong these flat earthers are.

    • @WrenOptional-nz2wc
      @WrenOptional-nz2wc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thankyoi. Well writtn. I spent time on Little Cornwallis Island. ( north of tthe magnetic pole). You can stand on the ice and snow, turn in any direction...the curvature is every where
      As far as mirages go...some of them in south Albrta and Montana are so brilliant. Thet the only way to tell is the small space below them is slightly above the natural horizon and blurry. Thankyou

    • @davecorley5514
      @davecorley5514 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@WrenOptional-nz2wc My experience with Arctic ice is that I travelled beneath it. Never had to surface while under the ice pack, but we were prepared to do so through thinner ice “lakes called “polynyas. The “track” of our under-ice transit began several miles south of the Bering Strait and ended as we entered the Barents Sea.

    • @marklmansfield
      @marklmansfield 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The biggest mistake is believing that everything has been confirmed , settled and no sense in looking for/at any better explanation . Then and Now ! Enough blind faith and dogma to go around for everyone .

  • @SmanzD
    @SmanzD 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video must get an award

  • @comment2009
    @comment2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Scott after reviewing comments: Why, why did I have to title it How High Do You Have To Be...

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It is good for the algorithm to get that kind of interaction.

    • @Vespertilio-Homo
      @Vespertilio-Homo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that was def on porpoise

    • @artthemandan
      @artthemandan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I only clicked so I could read the comments!

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@57thorns Mastermind level. :)

    • @HannesRadke
      @HannesRadke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How high do you have to be to title your video this way?

  • @michaelfarrell4824
    @michaelfarrell4824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +455

    "obviously the Earth isn't a grey barren hellscape..." 2020 ain't over yet....

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      2020 Q4: Challenge accepted!

    • @alastairbrand5821
      @alastairbrand5821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      2021: Hold my beer.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait, wait! We went all that way and spent all that money, just to look at a grey, barren, hellscape"??

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oops, sorry colonists - 'grey' is the correct spelling of 'gray'.

    • @paulthomson9709
      @paulthomson9709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wouldn't say that other than the pandemic , usually every hundred years or so any way, look back . Its been a pretty decent year , america seems to be in chaos but everywhere else is coping and seeing positives out of things .

  • @davidharrison3711
    @davidharrison3711 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was AMAZING!!!

  • @mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029
    @mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay, so it's 2022 and you've just melted my head....

  • @michaelb.1343
    @michaelb.1343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    I honestly only clicked on this vid to see all the "HOW HIGH" jokes i knew would be in the comments. :)

  • @fishsquishguy1833
    @fishsquishguy1833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1058

    Alternative title: How High Do You Have To Be To Believe The Earth Is Flat?

    • @MrSpruce
      @MrSpruce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Sakusha Durante Bro chill

    • @vlada
      @vlada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You have to be Eddie-Bravo-on-JRE-Fight-Companion-podcast levels of high.

    • @illidanStormrage222
      @illidanStormrage222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Declan 6914 the one and only Yahweh lord of this realm and the next

    • @illidanStormrage222
      @illidanStormrage222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Declan 6914 are you ready for a debate?
      Science debate, not pseudoscience

    • @edwardhaybell1938
      @edwardhaybell1938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      What the hell is happening in here!? Please, don't bring theological debate on a science video

  • @Cryton12345
    @Cryton12345 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude This is amazing I love your vid.

  • @dmann4683
    @dmann4683 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    It would be extra special if you could produce a virtual reality vid of the moon that reveals the many different cheese producing regions by type, quality and grade. 😂

  • @la8oi
    @la8oi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    I was literally spinning around with my phone like a crazy person because of this, great stuff.

    • @darkenergy3742
      @darkenergy3742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same

    • @MrGonzonator
      @MrGonzonator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I just moved it with my finger because I'm too lazy to get up off my backside.

    • @Mr2winners
      @Mr2winners 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can swipe

    • @TheMartieno
      @TheMartieno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I read this and ironically thought yeah thats totally gonna be me, and then it was.

    • @muskyelondragon
      @muskyelondragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha ha me too

  • @wayahedia9989
    @wayahedia9989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +380

    You can actually see it within a few miles. The question is, "How high do you have to be NOT to see the curvature of the Earth?"

    • @pigedehekkan
      @pigedehekkan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      High on religion.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      About 50 mg according to a quick googling.

    • @FruitingPlanet
      @FruitingPlanet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      True, even in an airplane it is pretty obvious, the reason you don´t see it so clearly in airplanes most of the time is because of clouds obscuring the horizon

    • @banmadabon
      @banmadabon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sORRY i PARROTED YOUR COMMENT...nOT SEEN YOUR BFORE POSTING

    • @zoltanposfai3451
      @zoltanposfai3451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Minus something from the surface.

  • @thescourgeofathousan
    @thescourgeofathousan ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely gronked from ground level mate!

  • @reggiepplee5759
    @reggiepplee5759 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ok OK! The coolest and weirdest thing I just experienced. I was lying on my couch and moving the tablet slightly and the video started moving around. And I was like this guy has bad video editing skills. Then I slowly recognized the video movements were based on me moving the tablet. So cool, thank you for the experience!

  • @BaronVonQuiply
    @BaronVonQuiply 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Stopping by a year later.
    You guys didn't disappoint with the high comments.

    • @TOMAS-lh4er
      @TOMAS-lh4er 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How do the Flat Earth experts explain away this sort of thing ? If they were actually in the Space Station, what would they say? ALSO how do they describe the EDGE of Earth?,and how far do we have to go to find it ??

    • @videogamerNattie98
      @videogamerNattie98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@TOMAS-lh4er There arguments are that the poles are closely guarded by the global governments preventing you from seeing the edges when there is none cause its a sphere, NASA produces fake evidence with minimal or no proof supporting the claim, and they wouldn't be allowed on the ISS because of there lack of experience in actual science NASA uses. Thus preventing them from working on there because they believe that some of the sciences that NASA use is not real science when it is required to work in said conditions because it is real science.
      There real contradiction is there inability to produce 1 full blown model that includes every supposed fact they use. Instead 1 model per explanation to explain that specific point but not how it works with all the other points they spout without producing another model for that point that is easily susceptible to Oakum's razor philosophy because of there complicated nonsense.
      Unlike are explanation of it with spherical planets Earth included, and are proper factual understanding of them and space which is what we use. Which is able to produce 1 fluent model that explains pretty much all of are explanations to are best understanding of space.
      Some people amongst the sane masses who believe in proper science like me sometimes even put to question if there even true believers in this flat Earth theory. And that its just a group of trolls pretending to believe its true to uproot some chaos for pleasure because of the sheer absurdity of the claim it boarders on unbelievable to believe in that...

    • @855MAGICAD
      @855MAGICAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wut...? Don't understand ....wasted...

    • @heavynetwork6804
      @heavynetwork6804 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@videogamerNattie98 wow, arrogant much??🤦
      Have you been to the south pole lately?? Have you been to the spacestation ever??
      Love...

    • @videogamerNattie98
      @videogamerNattie98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@heavynetwork6804 That is not arrogance that is fact. And just to prove the locations irrelevance the Golden gate bridge is built with a slight curve to accommodate the curvature of the sphere that is earth.
      Because engineering and science have to take these things into account. Along with navigation because we live on a sphere you would be breaking a lot of physics laws if it was a plate. And if not then your susceptible to oakum's razor for posing something so ludicrously overcomplicated.

  • @games1004
    @games1004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    As a pilot, the curvature of the horizon is noticeable, but what’s more noticeable to me is the declination of the horizon from the horizontal. When a plane crosses our path ahead of us, if it is far enough away, a plane 1-2 thousand feet or so below us can still be above the apparent horizon. That means, when I look for them in front of me, I have to look “up” (from the visible horizon) to find them. Really interesting.
    P.S. One of the planes I fly initialises it’s magnetic orientation without using any kind of compass or magnetic detector. While the plane is parked, with nothing moving like flaps or controls, it can quite literally “feel” the rotation of the earth. Since the rotation is constant, in one direction, that’s how it aligns the compass. Now That is the epitome of the saying, “a sufficiently advanced level of technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (Arthur C. Clarke, from replies)

    • @maddocentertainment8856
      @maddocentertainment8856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @JetStream90 "Arthur C Clarke"
      And the thing that "feels" Earth rotation,
      you talking about a self-nivelling gyroskop.
      A sophisticated piece of technology.

    • @doofismannfred4778
      @doofismannfred4778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      IRUs are a thing of beauty for disproving flat Earthers. 😎👍

    • @games1004
      @games1004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@doofismannfred4778 Nah, they'd just believe you already had the orientation programmed in or had a GPS sensor somewhere.
      It is amazing that the instruments can be that sensitive.

    • @travisk5589
      @travisk5589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@games1004 And that all pilots are liars and that they have signed contracts with the Gov saying that they will not tell the public about flat earth

    • @sid2112
      @sid2112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Damn, good eyes.

  • @Zachary3DPrints
    @Zachary3DPrints ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OMG Scott... at one point, I was thinking... why I'm looking to the sky, why does Scott talking about seeing Italy and Africa... I don't see them...
    Later I didn't see any earth at all and still got it, and then I saw those controls in the left corner...
    Wow, this was by far the best things I have seen!

  • @alphasuperior558
    @alphasuperior558 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First time I have watched a VR Video. It's amazing never thought about that. What next would they come up with?

  • @Kosmic_Galiya
    @Kosmic_Galiya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    "And no, I'm not talking about Felix with his energy drink promotion--"
    lol

    • @MS-gr2nv
      @MS-gr2nv 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why???

    • @Kosmic_Galiya
      @Kosmic_Galiya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MS-gr2nv Because it made me laugh

    • @Stewkers
      @Stewkers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Actually glad he said that. Irks me that to this day. For example infographics that talk about the altitude of different things, use Felix's skydive as a reference and not Alan's. I actually questioned the author of one, and he said he used it because it's the more well known one. And even google when you search for "highest skydive", to this very day years after either event, the first search result is a story that lists Felix's flight as the highest. You have to search further down for the real answer. Alan's jump although the highest, might as well not exist.
      It's basically propagation and the spread of incorrect information due to Redbull's marketing.

    • @paultait1955
      @paultait1955 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stewkers Skydiver here with 1500 jumps. We regard Felix as the record holder as he did a 'skydive' whereas Alan used a drogue to keep him stable, same as Joe Kittinger.

  • @MikePreston-darkflib
    @MikePreston-darkflib 2 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    "How high do you need to be to see the curvature of the earth?"
    "About 3 spliffs..."
    😂

    • @sockmonkey22
      @sockmonkey22 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You peeking through my window? 🤩🤩

    • @trafficjon400
      @trafficjon400 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How high does a Flat Earther need to Be ? 🤔

    • @YtseFrobozz
      @YtseFrobozz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dude... you gotta be like...... duude. ....What were we talking about again?

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu ปีที่แล้ว

      smoking is bad for your lungs, ask marley. gummies!

    • @marybethsmith9528
      @marybethsmith9528 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@trafficjon400 Flat earther, looking at the earth's curve through a shuttle window in a trip to space: "Obviously, the windows are really computer screens and the view is CGI." Flat earther, floating in space in a space suit: "Obviously, the suit's visor is a computer screen, and the view is CGI." Flat earther, thrown out a hatch butt naked, with his last breath and as his eyeballs swell and burst: "Obviously, NASA knocked me out and inserted computer screen contact lenses, and the view is CGI."

  • @rmp5s
    @rmp5s ปีที่แล้ว

    You'll always be a planet to me, Pluto!!

  • @peter-peter5929
    @peter-peter5929 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was able to at around 60,000 ft during a flight from JFK to Heathrow on the Concorde in Feb of 2001.

  • @NicholasRehm
    @NicholasRehm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    People often claim that the curvature is the result of the wide angle lenses used. What they fail to realize is that when these images are rectified (anybody can do it with a little math!), the curvature is still there....because the earth is spherical

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You can debunk their shitty curvature argument with a hula hoop.

    • @BadgerStyler
      @BadgerStyler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The obvious counter to that is that if it was a fisheye lense, the curve would invert whenever the camera tilted down, but it doesn't

    • @zuzusuperfly8363
      @zuzusuperfly8363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They could literally wear PPE and float until they see the curvature using balloons. They're too retarded for that though.

    • @bzqp2
      @bzqp2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well of course it's spherical... It's just that to the naked eye the distorion caused by the lens is often many times stronger than the curvature of the Earth (especially on these amateur stratospheric baloons, which go up by 30 km tops). It often confuses the audience into believing, that what they see is the pure curvature of the planet.

    • @kristofferpaulssonmisc2195
      @kristofferpaulssonmisc2195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think this is interesting, most cameras have some fisheye effect to them, so do mobile cameras. Depending where you place the horizon in the picture you are taking, you get a bend. If you take a picture on a straight line and put it in the lower part you should get a bend where the edge of the line is bent up, so if you take a picture from an airliner and place the horizon on the lower part, and get a bend that goes down at the edges, then that is proof for a round earth.

  • @cyberherbalist
    @cyberherbalist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    Earlier this year, my wife and I visited the Isle of Wight. While awaiting the ferry to go back to the mainland of Great Britain, I took a photograph from the Yarmouth pier up the Solent towards an anchored transport ship. I took the photo through the lens of my 12x binocular. The weather was very calm that day, there was just a little chop, and my eye level was about 10 feet above the water. Later, when I had a look at the photo I noticed that there was a sailboat presented broadside near the ship, but the thing standing out to me was that the hull of the sailboat was entirely obscured. The distance to the sailboat was approximately 10 km, I think. It was pretty clear to me that it was the curvature of the earth that was obscuring the sailboat's hull. And like I said, I was about 10 feet above the surface of the earth (sea) at that point.

    • @oledhaeseleer
      @oledhaeseleer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      can you post it here (imgur or similar)?

    • @OldBenOne
      @OldBenOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      The sailboat belonged to NASA and the hull was cloaked. I takes a lot of them to fool all of us, but they spare no expense. :)

    • @WillFaustCuber
      @WillFaustCuber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@OldBenOne 😆 nice joke. It's kind of funny that some people actually believe that though 😢

    • @alastairbrand5821
      @alastairbrand5821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I live next to a ferry port. I can watch the outgoing ferry through a pair of binoculars to see the same effect.
      Strangely, the lower hull always disappears while the upper decks and funnel remain visible longest. Never the other way around...
      ... Except for that unfortunate event, of course, but we don't talk about that! 🤔😂

    • @Boamere
      @Boamere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The people that don't believe the earth is a sphere also tend to believe that the other planets are spheres for whatever godforsaken reason. But a lot of their reasoning is ultra deep religious stuff so arguing doesn't work.

  • @wiggles7976
    @wiggles7976 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was the field of view angle for this video?

  • @bikeme1969
    @bikeme1969 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just drive across West Texas and I swear to God, it's so flat that you look out at the horizon and you can see the curvature of the earth!

  • @JohnsonArmsProps
    @JohnsonArmsProps 2 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    I just tried getting really high and I think I could see the curvature from ground level!

    • @FerdinandFake
      @FerdinandFake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      That one time i smoked salvia it really made the earth curve like a beautiful backside.

    • @brandywebb7758
      @brandywebb7758 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Really? The only curvature I saw was that of a Cheetos bag.😅😂😅😂🤪

    • @CDCLLC2023
      @CDCLLC2023 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ditto!

    • @losonsrenoster
      @losonsrenoster ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Its a natural occurrance, no one can see straight or think straight as the earth rises up to meet you.

    • @JamesAllmond
      @JamesAllmond ปีที่แล้ว +8

      dang it, beat me to it...

  • @occamsrayzor
    @occamsrayzor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    This one time, I got so high I could see the curvature of my skull from the inside, man.

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Sea level: even the ancients were capable of drawing the inference of the earth’s curvature by observing the approach of ships, or watching mountains appear to rise from the sea as a vessel drew closer to shore.

    • @darko714
      @darko714 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      This is why the ancients understood that the earth was a sphere, and a Greek mathematician was even able to calculate its circumference with remarkable accuracy based on surveys made at the time.

    • @ewetho
      @ewetho ปีที่แล้ว +10

      From about 100ft or so on a road near Gibraltar you could use the hills of the coast and The Rock, you could see the ocean out in front and you could actually see the rise in the middle of the water itself. Add in the observation of masts of the old sailing ships etc… become quite obvious except to the delirious

    • @hermbobsquarehead
      @hermbobsquarehead ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can't see the curve though, only the effect.

    • @mencken8
      @mencken8 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hermbobsquarehead = “inference”

    • @yes.2913
      @yes.2913 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Debunked

  • @paulbeales2879
    @paulbeales2879 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    about 5 feet will do when your sat on a yacht and a large ship comes over the horizon,best view I've ever had you literally see the curve of the earth.

    • @AV036
      @AV036 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL hello robot

    • @awatt
      @awatt ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AV036
      Show me the flat. I want to see the flat. Why can't anyone show me the flat?

    • @AV036
      @AV036 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@awatt is perhaps vision impaired or has limited ability to comprehend reality or can't do basic information search with out acute cognitive dissonance clouding all judgement before even a rational and coherent question is posted. WHAT !🤡

  • @793Force
    @793Force 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    "How high do you have to be to see the curvature of the Earth?" Me: *Takes lighter. Then click play.

    • @HannesRadke
      @HannesRadke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Stoner demographic: Check.

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I loved this video because to get that high really is a joint effort.

    • @tiki_trash
      @tiki_trash 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I started bustin' up laughing when I read the title! Talk about clickbait, lol!

    • @Fister_of_Muppets
      @Fister_of_Muppets 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Beat me to it lol

    • @robikeops
      @robikeops 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂🧨

  • @normanmoore1624
    @normanmoore1624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    A mariner knows the answer. A submariner specifically knows the answer is about 1 ft. From that vantage point ships on the horizon can be seen entirely, partially, or just the mast tops depending on the range.

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The Greeks figured out the earth was a sphere pretty early. I figure it was because they were sailors. Sail around on the sea long enough and it's hard not to conclude that the sea curves along with everything else over a giant ball.

    • @melvynobrien6193
      @melvynobrien6193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@MattMcIrvin Right; just sail away from any coastline and you'll see the land drop into the sea. Flat-Earthers are delusional.

    • @harshtruthengineer1382
      @harshtruthengineer1382 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Braindead

    • @harshtruthengineer1382
      @harshtruthengineer1382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@melvynobrien6193 but then you whip out a telescope and the land comes back into view. Fact

    • @RayThackeray
      @RayThackeray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@harshtruthengineer1382 Wow you are so wrong it is embarrassing for you. As a sailor, at just 16 nautical miles every day I have seen ship's "hull down", in other words the hull is below the curvature of the earth. A sailor frequently sees just the bridge of a ship - and on a clear day with a telescope that becomes indisputable.

  • @k_dawg7475
    @k_dawg7475 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW, great Vid! Thank you ❤

  • @carlatteniese2
    @carlatteniese2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scott! This is Fantastic! Thanks!

  • @SteveKasian
    @SteveKasian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    "How High Do You Have To Be To See The Curvature of The Earth?"
    Higher than 10 hippies in a helicopter.

    • @mypenisissmallbut4485
      @mypenisissmallbut4485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Then who’s flying. Hippies are too busy fighting for legalization of weed and driving Volkswagen vans to get a pilots license.

    • @dwightgaston6079
      @dwightgaston6079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Depends on how high the hippies are.

    • @SteveKasian
      @SteveKasian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dwightgaston6079 These particular hippies are extremely high.- ;-)

    • @dwightgaston6079
      @dwightgaston6079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@SteveKasian could be the first time a helicopter docked with the ISS :D

    • @lewiswereb8994
      @lewiswereb8994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On the ocean (s) if you are 6 feet tall and standing on the surface (sea level) you can only see 13 miles before it curves down away from your line of sight. We were all taught this in the Navy.Lookouts aboard ship can see much further because they are some times scores of feet above sea level.

  • @randominternetbro6562
    @randominternetbro6562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    "The horizon is now depressed by about 5.5 degrees." Yeah, me too.

    • @RKroese
      @RKroese 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You need some suger bread. Its the munchies.

    • @criskity
      @criskity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "But but but the horizon rises to eye level!" - your crazy neighborhood flerf

    • @smartalek180
      @smartalek180 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have you tried Prozac?

    • @dweebteambuilderjones7627
      @dweebteambuilderjones7627 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have you tried blankets?

  • @RussellTHouse
    @RussellTHouse ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOW! That was VERY cool, Mr. Manley!

  • @andrewcornwell8347
    @andrewcornwell8347 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great display! A wonderful perspective to the tiny part of our part in the Universe. Good work!

  • @gabrielbennett5162
    @gabrielbennett5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    I've seen Polaroid photos my grandfather, Vic Horton, took from rear cockpit of the YF-12A Blackbird above 80,000 feet. The curvature is clearly visible. He was a NASA test pilot.

    • @showker28
      @showker28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Magic Mike i was about to say that

    • @steel1968
      @steel1968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Magic Mike even with a fisheye lens, a straight line/horizontal line is still straight.

    • @renedekker9806
      @renedekker9806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@steel1968 _"even with a fisheye lens, a straight line/horizontal line is still straight."_ - a straight line that goes through the centre of view is still straight when seen through a fisheye lens. Any other straight line isn't; it bends away from the centre.

    • @mjmcrae1168
      @mjmcrae1168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Blackbird…was responsible for some of the UFO sightings in the early sixties.

    • @canuckprogressive.3435
      @canuckprogressive.3435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Magic Mike I only came here looking for flatards. Was not dissapointed.

  • @3characterhandlerequired
    @3characterhandlerequired 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Dang, I didn't even know YT had a capability of having 3D videos where you can tilt the camera. This is first one I have seen. I wondered a bit when you said something about being able to see something or other and all I could see was space. Only at that time I noticed that arrow-thingy at the corner of the video. Cool. Expecting to get more of these. Now to watch this thing again...

    • @oddsandwindsocks5905
      @oddsandwindsocks5905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was thinking the same about just seeing space

    • @Tinil0
      @Tinil0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Just to be clear, you dont need to use the wheel controls, which are not amazing. Just click and drag.

    • @thefarcountry
      @thefarcountry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is nothing more than digitally recreated "virtual" animation ~ a pseudo-reality. If someone wanted to fake a video of earth curvature this is exactly how they would do it, simply because it is the easiest way to do it. It proves absolutely nothing, except that most people are naive, gullible, unsophisticated and can be played like a piano. Holy crap!... how trivial, insipid, jejune, and inconsequential can you possibly get?

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@thefarcountry Wow, great minds think alike. I was thinking of those exact words in your last sentence to describe your comment.

    • @eventfulnonsense
      @eventfulnonsense 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I didn't see what he's talking about until I tried touching the screen.

  • @ThornAndel
    @ThornAndel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Scott, you always make interesting video.

  • @Mikael5732
    @Mikael5732 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scott, another VR vid!!!! Thanks. Best videos sure!!! And I don’t need oxygen.

  • @speedplane
    @speedplane 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is some solid work Scott Manley. Your one-man shot-in-a-bathrobe episodes are better than pretty much everything on TV.

  • @TheDsasadsad
    @TheDsasadsad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of few 360° videos that is actually worth watching.
    Nice job Scott
    Thank you!
    After OLF podcast now I am your subscriber :)

  • @chriskaprys
    @chriskaprys ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this experience. Thanks Scott!

  • @A_J502
    @A_J502 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A paper by David K Lynch published in Applied Optics in 2008 investigated the required height that an observer had to be in order to visually identify the curvature of the Earth. The author concluded,
    “Visual daytime observations show that the minimum altitude at which curvature of the horizon can be detected is at or slightly below 35,000 ft, providing that the field of view is wide (60 degrees) and nearly cloud free.”

    • @davecorley5514
      @davecorley5514 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Navigators on ships and aircraft have used an instrument called a sextant to measure the angle between a celestial body and the earth’s horizon. Making several such measurements within a short time then using printed tables of celestial body motion allows the navigators to determine the position of the ship or aircraft at an estimated time.
      More accuracy is achieved by correcting for the observer’s height above the surface at the moment of observation. In effect, this mathematical correction is required to compensate for the (spherical) curvature of the earth.
      A sailboat sailor normally uses the height of their eye above the surface of the water - normally about 5 feet. A sailor on a modern nuclear-powered carrier will use about 120 feet. A sailor on a submarine using a sextant connected to the optics of a periscope will use about 3 feet - the vertical distance from the centerline of the periscope to the ocean’s surface when the boat is at periscope depth.
      I’ve presented this argument of improved accuracy of sextant fixes to flat-earth era. They dismiss the argument as mathematical mambo-jumbo. As a navigator on two nuclear-powered submarines, I could not dismiss this accuracy improvement. If I did so and the boat ran aground, I would be fired along with the boat’s Commanding Officer and Executive Officer and Assistant Navigator. Our naval careers, while not necessarily over, would be stunted.

    • @37rainman
      @37rainman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davecorley5514 One of the more hilarious things is that flatters believe that GPS will give us correct lat/long position , "but on a flat earth, and it is not satellite based"!!😄
      Their poor minds cannot visualize that if it does give correct position, one can quite easily use a GPS to demo whether earth earth is flat or not.
      It becomes hilarious, to say the least. I live on 45 deg N latitude. If using my GPS i move west along an east west road, 1/10th of a degree longitude, I will move bout 4.9 miles. Does my friend who lives on 45 S in Brazil move 15 miles??? No, he will move the same 4.9 miles
      This is how frustratingly incapable these people are at visualizing their own subject of interest

  • @harryithink5336
    @harryithink5336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    A flat earther complains that they can’t see it when they are at see level

    • @coobk373
      @coobk373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      they need to broaden theit horizon

    • @unnamedchannel2202
      @unnamedchannel2202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All I see on those pictures are disks. 🤔

    • @godfreecharlie
      @godfreecharlie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Why would a flat earther have a level? They have no need for one.

    • @Zone1BC
      @Zone1BC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@unnamedchannel2202 A disk without America? Sure, why not.

    • @altergreenhorn
      @altergreenhorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can't convince a believer no matter what a belief is

  • @davidkailer5522
    @davidkailer5522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Great video as always, but you missed a golden opportunity to "crash" back to earth and end with
    "and this is what you'd see if you didn't...fly safe 😎"

  • @buckstarchaser2376
    @buckstarchaser2376 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for flying safe, Planetarium Pilot... I have a question though. On the dark horizons (where available), there were multiple "star-rise" moments (as well as an aurora event on Earth). I'm curious how a telescope view of those stars would look, due to planetary and mass effects. Even with the highest resolution setting for the video, the render was too coarse to capture any intentional distortions that would show - one way, or another - if there is a visible interaction. How would the Rising/Setting stars actually look at the dark edge of the earth/moon/mars?
    Speaking of mars, it looks like you left your blinker on while in orbit... That must be some kind of record.

  • @SGoodman
    @SGoodman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At what altitude does the sky go dark during daytime?

  • @lavadude360
    @lavadude360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    “Earth isn’t a grey barren hellscape”
    Has Scott forgotten that Coventry exists?

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I live in Morocco which is more of a beige barren hellscape except when it's pink. Or grey.

    • @benjamindrayton1380
      @benjamindrayton1380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No Coventry's fine, you're thinking of Milton Keynes.

    • @krakenburger56
      @krakenburger56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Slough also exists

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh God, yes.

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@benjamindrayton1380 I have lived in both, and I will take MK any day of the week. Granted, it looks grim and very repetitive as seen from the thoroughfares, but these separated islands of habitation in between the roundabouts are nice little villages for the most part.
      Cov is just suicidal depression made flesh.

  • @stefanschneider3681
    @stefanschneider3681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    First time I watched a VR-Video on TH-cam, I am fascinated! Every single second is fun, I love the ISS, being from Switzerland I obviously connect to the alps and the meditarrenean sea, but also the moon and the planets are fun. Thanks for preparing and sharing!

  • @chaplainmattsanders4884
    @chaplainmattsanders4884 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whoa! I never saw a video like this-360 video. Very cool!

  • @davidpowell3347
    @davidpowell3347 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Man High" program using balloon and parachute?

  • @LeeRaldar
    @LeeRaldar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    As an ex-seaman I spent countless hours on watch/helm duty typically on a bridge around 30m above sea level, horizon approx 20-22 miles in good conditions in open sea. The first time I went up as a junior rating the first thing I thought looking about was that the earth was clearly round.

    • @FirstLastOne
      @FirstLastOne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I too was a semen once.

    • @LeeRaldar
      @LeeRaldar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@FirstLastOne Clearly only an ordinary seaman =)

    • @brianpotts7308
      @brianpotts7308 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree upstairs in my house every clear day it's there

    • @tedcarriker3293
      @tedcarriker3293 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fellow former Semen... 😉👍

    • @RudiHollyLibrary
      @RudiHollyLibrary 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking the same thing. I live at the beach and you can clearly see that it is round.

  • @dmacpher
    @dmacpher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Usually 3 joints or a solid dab

    • @austin5060
      @austin5060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nice

    • @mycosys
      @mycosys 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      was gonna say 3 or 4 cones

    • @superme63
      @superme63 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking about the same, Dieter.

    • @redacted5052
      @redacted5052 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice

    • @dmacpher
      @dmacpher 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      SIR KANE SADDINGTON I took the low road on this comment

  • @jamesmoeller9366
    @jamesmoeller9366 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can stand on the ground to see an Eclipse? Hello?

  • @soulrobotics
    @soulrobotics ปีที่แล้ว

    WOOOOOOWWWW thank you for the tour Scott!
    This reminds me that we are lucky creatures.
    ...recently out of the jungle and we have a long way to go
    ...hope we don't kill ourselves in the process

  • @awatt
    @awatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Lay down on a beach. Wait till the sun sets then stand up and watch it set again. Sphere proven.

    • @miketype1each
      @miketype1each 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      👍

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Lay down on a beach. Wait till the sun sets then stand up and watch it set again. Sphere proven." how exactly would this prove a sphere...? wouldn't this happen the same way if the earth is flat? you would get up and you could see the sun again...

    • @ReinoGoo
      @ReinoGoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@chrisakaschulbus4903 On a flat earth you would not see a horizon.
      It is because the horizon is near the trick can work.
      And a sun over a flat earth would not go up and down at the horizon.

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ReinoGoo it depends on how the dynamics of this flat earth are and where on it you are... since it's a ridiculous concept anyways i was assuming that this flat plane would be still spinning in a way where there is a sun rise and so on.
      the sun disapperas behind the edge and if you get up, you would see it again

    • @miketype1each
      @miketype1each 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Flat Earth is nothing but the failure to recognize and accept reality. All who believe and preach it have damaged souls. The classic definition of insanity is the belief in that which isn't so. Therefore, to the insane, reality is proof of a conspiracy against them.

  • @kotatsu7968
    @kotatsu7968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    "Far off in the west we can see a dark area over the Atlantic where the sun has yet to rise...."
    Message, Scott?

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Carefully chosen time of day?

    • @theranter
      @theranter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RCAvhstape Nah, he's probably talking about the U.S.A. And being from the U.S.A., I concur with this assessment.

    • @thesunexpress
      @thesunexpress 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We've definitely devolved back into the dark ages here in North America. I don't think anybody could have predicted that Mussolini would reincarnate as a brainless sweaty blob of discarded marmalade with a penchant for bankrupting scam companies & now an entire country...and not just financially bankrupt. All the while paying off hookers to prevent them from writing books about his tiny penis & shopping for vapid Eastern Bloc mail-order brides.

    • @thesunexpress
      @thesunexpress 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RCAvhstape I live on an island just ~19 miles off the coast of Venezuela.(my YT username is a major hint) And to point out just how totally fucked up the situation is in Chavezstan...errrr Madurostan...errrr...Venezuela, I mean, our tiny little island nation is sending humanitarian relief to that ass backwards hovel of a nation. At last count we had about 15k Venezuelan "asylum seekers" to put up with. Our island's population is barely above 110k citizens, give or take a couple thousand extra illegal immigrants. Or in other words > 10%. And a "shithole" according to the degenerate fuckhead in the White House.

    • @bobofthekerbals9797
      @bobofthekerbals9797 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ko Tatsu he's recording this is the middle of the night

  • @zonk1477
    @zonk1477 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You would not see this far across as seen in the video correct due to the windows? How many degrees of visibility do the windows limit you?

    • @maxfan1591
      @maxfan1591 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not a lot. How much do the windows at your home restrict you?

  • @evanfischer147
    @evanfischer147 ปีที่แล้ว

    in the last bit where he's looking at pluto theres this really pretty brown gash in the stars what is it?

  • @MoonWeasel23
    @MoonWeasel23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    That seems like a very big sun out at Pluto.

    • @RoseDCLXVI
      @RoseDCLXVI 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      it is a bit big, probably a bug with universe simulator would look more like the narrow end of a chopstick at arms length if not smaller

    • @peabody3000
      @peabody3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i've heard that at pluto the sun would be tiny, practically a point source of light, but still too bright too look at directly with naked eyes

  • @okuniewiak
    @okuniewiak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    ''The Flat Earth society has members all around the globe'' :P

    • @Mark-V-Productions
      @Mark-V-Productions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🤣

    • @joefish6091
      @joefish6091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The FES was originally a joke membership thing in Punch magazine classifieds section London circa 1970s or so , send a small $$$ and include a SAE and get a membership card.
      Professional shills resurrected the things for the cable TV and the internet generation, ditto bigfoot UFOs ancient aliens. All discredited concepts in the 70s apart from a very small number of laughable shill publishers. Von Daniken etc.

    • @bW9taeH4
      @bW9taeH4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@joefish6091 I always wondered if any of the flat earthers believe it or if they just want to see how far they can go getting you to put together counter-arguments. I figure that if you're very stupid, all you need is "here's a picture from space" and if you are very smart...a picture from space is fine too, although there are plenty of other ways to show it. So where do you have to be in the middle? You'd have to be stupid enough to reject logic, skeptical enough to reject general knowledge, or be part of a religion that still accepts that the Earth is flat, but I don't know of any that still think that. You'd need to be articulate enough to make a case that won't be dismissed as an illiterate diatribe, and rational enough to make a pseudo refutation of any counter arguments. I just don't see a middle ground that supports all those disparate attributes. Then again, there's mental illness. I don't mean to disparage those with mental illness, but it can lead to that sort of incongruity. So it started as a joke, and the new joke might be "we really mean it...can you believe that they think that we really mean it, those idiots?" or there might be people who believe it. My challenge is to anybody who can prove that flat earthers really exist and they aren't just trolling everybody.

    • @bW9taeH4
      @bW9taeH4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Todd Winter Your test is one of the ways to prove that the earth IS round. It can even be done with the great lakes. When ships go out to sea, their appearance doesn't become smaller until they disappear. They keep looking lower and lower until you see only the tops of them. It's easy to verify with binoculars. Likewise, if you look at an oil platform 80 miles out with a telescope, you will not see the bottom of it. Try sending somebody out there with a boat. You won't see the boat when it's next to the platform. If you could see where the laser hit, you'd be able to see a boat. The person in the boat can see where the laser hits, and it won't be a foot above sea level.

    • @tuberobotto
      @tuberobotto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @rafik
      It's a very juvenile simplistic joke/idea but it hits home quite sharply on the dot.
      And actually, if one flerfer wants to say hi to another flerfer across the ocean, wouldn't it be possible based on their logic, to just wave from the roof of one's house with the aid of telescopes and binocs, of course?

  • @emike09
    @emike09 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool, I'd love to see more VR uploads!

  • @jimmy8x541
    @jimmy8x541 ปีที่แล้ว

    how do i awtch this in vr with an HP Reverb G2?

  • @73h73373r357
    @73h73373r357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Dude man. You'd have to be pretty high maaaaan.

  • @MuscleBandit
    @MuscleBandit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    And what's equally as clever as the content you have created is the help you will get directly from flat earthers with all their crazy comments helping the TH-cam algorithm grow your channel!
    Nicely done sir.

    • @clownssschwab6394
      @clownssschwab6394 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So let me get this right. . He uses a computer generated Vr which has its parameters built in as a globe ... how does that prove anything ..,??

    • @MuscleBandit
      @MuscleBandit ปีที่แล้ว

      @@clownssschwab6394 Because the parameters aren't a dream world delusion such as flat earthing, the parameters are a direct and to scale representation of our planet. That won't matter to flat earthers though as they are on a planet of their own.

  • @homophilosofikus8215
    @homophilosofikus8215 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really liked your video. Very informative. Thanks

  • @tjjones621
    @tjjones621 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never fear... TJ is here to save the day!
    The curve of Earth can be seen from the ground. Chances are, everyone reading this has personally seen it with their own unaided eyes.
    Who knows the one word answer?...

  • @mojeimja
    @mojeimja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    9:55 ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.

    • @chrisantoniou4366
      @chrisantoniou4366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My God! It's full of stars!

    • @chrisantoniou4366
      @chrisantoniou4366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Charles Yuditsky HAL, I won’t argue with you anymore! Open the doors!

    • @billieturner4238
      @billieturner4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All of your bases are belong to me

    • @TankUni
      @TankUni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We should totally go to Europa.

    • @chronus4421
      @chronus4421 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Europa is ours as well, they just don't know it yet. Same with everything 12.5LY from our Homeworld, we're going to call it core human space.

  • @operationdomination3102
    @operationdomination3102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wish I could have the honor of living on a moon of Saturn. I could only imagine the beauty of waking up in the morning and looking outside and seeing those magnificent rings so close and so clearly.

  • @Mikael5732
    @Mikael5732 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watched till the end. Very nice. Thank you again. 👍🏻

  • @markrowland1366
    @markrowland1366 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    As a five year old, we climbed the hill behind the house at dusk and were able to see the growing carpet of squid boat lights. The higher, the more lights we could see. Standing on the beech we could watch the ship's superstructures become shortening as ships motored to far away ports.

  • @kento7899
    @kento7899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I'm so high I can *feel* the curvature of the Earth.

  • @11moonshot
    @11moonshot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Scott!! What an experience...visually and mentally (not least because of your intelligent commentary!) As a physics teacher I was absolutely mesmerized by this demonstration!! Have to show show it to my grandchildren. Thank you so much for that beautiful work of (computational) art!! Michael B. Butter, Dresden, Germany

    • @Coincidence_Theorist
      @Coincidence_Theorist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      4:27. “New “shephard” blasphemy

    • @Research0digo
      @Research0digo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Michael Butter, thank you for being a teacher. :) I want to say I'm very sorry for what my country did to your beautiful city of Dresden. !_!

    • @37rainman
      @37rainman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Research0digo Virtue signaling much??
      I am more sorry about what my beautiful German people did to beautiful groups of citizens in their own beautiful country. And what they hoped to do to the beautiful world. When people behave that way, they should expect what happened. The German people were not victims, they were perpetrators.
      Glad my parents werent in Germany anymore as the whole country went insane and into the abyss
      We didnt want that war, didnt start that war, but when persuaded, we ended it, and Dresden was part of ending it.
      25000 civilians died. In that war, started by Germany, in Europe, 300,000 Americans died. They died trying to put down insane people. In that war, the German nation slaughtered roughly 10,000,000 noncombatents within the area they controlled.
      But how nice, you are apologizing for destroying Dresden. Look at those numbers again, do I need to say more.
      When a country gets involved in madness like this, the civilians in the country are not victims

  • @MIck-M
    @MIck-M ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to be sure I could get a hint of the curve from just 14000 feet while skydiving etc but since have learned that isn't likely at all from such a low height. When you are smaller than a pin head on a bowling ball you need to really get up there before you are going to see a curve.

  • @PheobeThekitty
    @PheobeThekitty ปีที่แล้ว

    I just read the description that I TH-cam has a 360 vr setting. Woah. Dude this is so cool

  • @brianarbenz7206
    @brianarbenz7206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Is that Turn the Clouds Off app available to the general public? I'd love to install it for use on gray days!

    • @andyman8630
      @andyman8630 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      sadly the app only turns the clouds off regarding rain

    • @Sableagle
      @Sableagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andyman8630 I don't mind the rain so much, but if you get your hands on a Portal Gun can you please install an overflow upstream of York to divert the floodwater to a mountaintop somewhere north of Naein? This unequal distribution is harming both countries, Yorkshire and Iran.

    • @Retired-Don
      @Retired-Don 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm in the San Francisco area right now. I think a "no smoke" option would be cool.

  • @Sneemaster
    @Sneemaster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I conquered my fear of heights a while ago (mostly) but this somehow brought it back a bit. I don't know why...I love space games and flying games but I actually felt a bit of anxiety for some reason looking at this video. Either way, though, it's still awesome!

  • @learnhope7895
    @learnhope7895 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best video ever!!!

  • @keagaming9837
    @keagaming9837 ปีที่แล้ว

    That VR video was amazing!
    Since when did TH-cam add VR videos?

  • @morethantheeyesees
    @morethantheeyesees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Can see the curvature of the earth from my brother’s front porch perched far back on a bluff above Fort Casey in Coupeville, Washington. It overlooks a stretch of open ocean between the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula and the southern tip of Vancouver Island! He and his family have a million dollar view!

    • @MrMichaelFire
      @MrMichaelFire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Million dollar? Most Ocean view real-estate these days exceeds a million dollars for start.....

    • @allthingsbing1295
      @allthingsbing1295 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pics? Of the curve from your brothers place.

    • @marcg1686
      @marcg1686 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      For you to see curvature at or near sea-level the horizon would need to be scalloped.

    • @sockmonkey22
      @sockmonkey22 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Coopviille is really scenic. Great spot.

    • @rodneystanger1651
      @rodneystanger1651 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nonsense.

  • @sganzerlag
    @sganzerlag 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I'm a business jet pilot. Most modern business jets typically fly higher than your typical airliner. In my experience, you will begin to notice the curvature of Earth on a clear day at 41 thousand feet (12.5 km). At 45 thousand feet (13.7 km) on a clear day you can definitely notice the Earth's curvature.

    • @Incommensurabilities
      @Incommensurabilities 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's really interesting that a few extra thousand feet would make that much difference. Yet most people fly in airliners rather than business jets, so perhaps there would be fewer flerfers if airliner cruising altitude was a bit higher 😅

    • @payne7761
      @payne7761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      VOR debunks flat Earth nonsense.

    • @brucebanner4806
      @brucebanner4806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@payne7761 b.s globe is an impossible made up lie and is easily proven wrong open your eyes

    • @OortCloud
      @OortCloud 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@brucebanner4806 Then prove it. I'll wait.

    • @waltdistel716
      @waltdistel716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brucebanner4806 why would anyone lie about it?

  • @paulnorrigan2258
    @paulnorrigan2258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent episode, more like this please!

  • @Soulsphere001
    @Soulsphere001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's really awesome being able to look around during the video. I wasn't watching this in VR, I just used the arrow keys to look around.

    • @andybeans5790
      @andybeans5790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can also drag the view with the mouse

    • @Soulsphere001
      @Soulsphere001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andybeans5790
      Oh, wow, I didn't know that. Thank you.

  • @whiterhino4969
    @whiterhino4969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Videos like these always make me appreciate technology. It brings out the child in me to see the earth and our solar system in this way. Thank you for the cool video scott!

    • @adamfirst3772
      @adamfirst3772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Videos?? you mean Cartoons.
      these animations are taken from a GAME.
      but yes, REAL videos of these cartoons would be highly appreciated.
      too bad it's still only 2021, and we dont have high quality cameras or rockets yet, to film these kinds of vids.

  • @georgedobler7490
    @georgedobler7490 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At sea level in any port from which you can see ships coming closer, especially with binoculars.

  • @Spillers72
    @Spillers72 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how you can move the view.

  • @mariobortoli1457
    @mariobortoli1457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    With a few drinks I can also see it’s spinning

    • @awatt
      @awatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Few more and I can feel it moving.

    • @heatshield
      @heatshield 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ya ever had to hold onto a stranger's front lawn to keep from rolling away and leaving the planet?

    • @yottaforce
      @yottaforce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      With a sufficient amount you can't lie on the floor without holding on to it.

    • @Sableagle
      @Sableagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Doesn't need that many drinks. Just sit where there are trees silhouetted against the stars near the celestial equator and watch while you sip your vodka and tonic.
      Amazing what you can dissolve in vodka.

    • @allentaylor8625
      @allentaylor8625 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I meant GREAT. Must have been a finger slip.