re: #94 LudwigVanQuixote

I do not buy this for one instant.

I repeat. It is not possible to make a straight horizontal trajectory look like an arcing vertical trajectory from miles away.

Seriously, try it! Do the experiment. Take a straight wire or a pen or something long and thin and move it around . See if there is any place you can put your head where that straight horizontal thing looks curved and vertical.

But it’s not a straight line…

Curvature of the earth… remember we’re talking multiple tens of miles, which can induce a fairly significant curvature effect.

Just a point I thought worth making