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How can I see CHICAGO,USA from BUFFALO, USA? except from a flat earth model?
Because the distance between Chicago and Buffalo is just 502 miles whereas the circumference of the planet is approx 25,000 miles.
It's a matter of scale.
Here are 2 lines:
1. -------------------------------------
2. -------------------------------------
One is a straight flat line, the other is a section of a circle.
They appear exactly the same because we are looking at a tiny tiny section of the circle whose real scale is massive.
If you can't get your head around the fact that line 2 is an arc of a circle then there's little of worth than can be discussed.
We live in an era where we have super telescopes like Hubble and the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona pictured below:

Back in 2008, LBT, along with a space-based telescope, successfully discovered a distant galaxy cluster designated as 2XMM J083026+524133, located about 6 billion light-years away from the Earth.
Now if the Earth were flat then any one of these super powered telescopes which tend to sit high up on mountain tops, would have been able to take a picture of some very far off place to prove that the Earth was flat. For example, the distance from Califormia to Australia is about 8,000 miles. There's only ocean standing between them.
Why then can't you take a picture of Australia from a California observatory when these telescopes can see objects 100s of light years away in space?







