yeah but on a globe, a straight line is a longer distance, it is curved. it might be an order of magnitude problem.

because if you let a balloon go into the air and if it is filled with helium then sooner or later you won't be able to see it. so that it is beyond the horizon. the same thing for lateral distances in the earth. you got to get like REALLY FRIKN high up in the sky to see the curve.

and what about Magellan he circumnavigated the world. he proved that it was not flat. Columbus? he "found" America by going the other way to try to get india.

i think the problem is that you think the model for what it really is, although it is just the "shadow" of the real thing. a representational simulation in order for the passing on and processing of information in a easy to share manner.

one example of this is a picture, lets say a picture of a box. to keep things simple.

you take a picture of the front side of the box.

ok ok. do you have discord? i think a real time chat thing would be better to explain this as this is getting tiresome, also i want to try out the voice feature of discord. if you do not then that is ok.

because what amazes me is that there is just as much if not more evidence that the world is round than it is flat.

you could see it as a conceptual sort of enigma that with the advent of technology it is as it could seem to be "flat".
but why is it that you seem to really think the earth is flat?