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Originally Posted by Jerome
When you are standing at the beach the ocean rises to your eye level. Do you think the water is really above your chest?
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When you at the beach and look out you see the horizon at eye level, yet the water of the ocean is at your feet, proving the Earth is round. The horizon rises to the level of your eyes, yet the water stays at your feet, thus the surface of the ocean is curving up to your eye level at the horizon, starting at your feet, and then dropping off as shown by ships sailing over the horizon and disappearing with the top of the mast being the last thing you see.
Just talked to my son, who was in the navy, and he was telling me that any ship in the distance would be seen from the top of the mast first or last as it sailed over the horizon, thus proving that the Earth is curved and round. A ship didn't just disappear by getting too small, it always dropped down behind the horizon.