JLBE1610 | Flat Earth ‘Horizon Always Rises to Eye Level’ Argument

UPDATE 6-Mar-2019

My YouTube channel was terminated in February 2019. I am slowly reuploading my entire back-catalogue to my own personal hosting account away from Google/YouTube. This video has already been reuploaded and is currently available to Full Members of johnlebon.com

In this video I discuss my views regarding an argument which, some people posit, supports the notion that we live on a ‘flat earth’, a theory which has obviously enjoyed what might be termed a ‘renaissance’ over the past 12 months or so, especially here on youtube. The argument in question relates to the observed horizon, which some claim can be seen to ‘rise to eye level’ no matter how high up from the ground an observer rises. The argument goes that this should not be the case if we live on a giant ball.

LINKS:
‘The horizon shows the earth is round not flat’ by Fiveredpears (21-Feb-2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BRfDsXaScw
JLB1557b | Ball Earth Maths (Geometry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFNCbwOv_7E
JLBE1608 | Thinking101 – Argument, Premise, Conclusion (22-Jan-2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmX-ZIzInYY
Logic (article): http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logical-fallacies