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minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·6 hours agoWith just your eyes… And a big lake or sea… And a ship… And the knowledge that water lies level. Similarly it’s not exactly understood from birth that lunar eclipses are the earth’s shadow. You gotta work all these things out and make more complicated observations than just looking at the horizon.
minus-squarenexguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoYou’re right, I should have come up with a way to tell the earth is flat with just your eyes but of course nothing around to cheat with like things to see with your eyes.
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·43 minutes agoI think you probably get the point.
With just your eyes… And a big lake or sea… And a ship… And the knowledge that water lies level.
Similarly it’s not exactly understood from birth that lunar eclipses are the earth’s shadow.
You gotta work all these things out and make more complicated observations than just looking at the horizon.
You’re right, I should have come up with a way to tell the earth is flat with just your eyes but of course nothing around to cheat with like things to see with your eyes.
I think you probably get the point.