Fallguy111
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Apparently if you use a telescope to view the horizon you can see beyond the "curve", the official explanation is you're seeing a reflection in the atmosphere (atmospheric refraction).
That sounds like a mirage to me maaaan.Apparently if you use a telescope to view the horizon you can see beyond the "curve", the official explanation is you're seeing a reflection in the atmosphere (atmospheric refraction).
The problem is that fact is simply not true. I couldn’t even find someone dumb enough to think it with a google search. On military ships there are always several people with various optics. The person on the flying bridge better see something coming over the horizon before the OOD. Doesn’t matter who has a telescope, big eyes or binoculars. The OOD knows something’s ther from radar but should still never see it first because the flying bridge is higher. This is a truth that I have witnessed over and over for years.Apparently if you use a telescope to view the horizon you can see beyond the "curve", the official explanation is you're seeing a reflection in the atmosphere (atmospheric refraction).
The problem is that fact is simply not true. I couldn’t even find someone dumb enough to think it with a google search. On military ships there are always several people with various optics. The person on the flying bridge better see something coming over the horizon before the OOD. Doesn’t matter who has a telescope, big eyes or binoculars. The OOD knows something’s ther from radar but should still never see it first because the flying bridge is higher. This is a truth that I have witnessed over and over for years.
No, but I didn’t need to, I know what it is. I’m not nearly as stupid as some people in this discussion. I have witnessed myself with my own eyes that you are incorrect about using one type of optics vs another seeing further over the horizon at the same time, which was your original fact that I disputed Now you try and change your facts, confuse the issue with garbage ideas, whatever until you end up sounding as dumb as you are. If conditions are perfect you can get some refraction, but It is not going to happen every time or even often. If you bothered to check your own facts rather than cutting and pasting internet BS you would know that. I think I’ll let myself out now, this discussion is beyond ignorance and just plain childish. Bye!Did you type atmospheric refraction into Google?
Yes, you are.I'm not wrong.
Tell me you don't know how rail guns work, without telling me you don't know how railguns work.
That's true only if you were perfectly eye level with the water, and the target was a leaf floating on the water.At only 10 miles away, the target would be 66.6 feet below the curvature.