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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

They're talking about the horizon.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

have you people never seen an ocean? when you see ships go far enough out you see them disappear behind the curvature of the earth, you'll see masts of sailboats sticking up and the like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not just the ocean. There are lakes large enough of this effect to happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I have never been to the beach or seen the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you ever get the opportunity to, highly recommend going to see it. It's probably my favorite thing on earth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You mean your favorite thing in ocean /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No, us prairie people don’t think about the ocean that often, but yes I’ve seen that. A wave just seems more mountain-like than the horizon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what do prairie people think about

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno. Grass ‘n shit. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It sure is there bud. Think the rain’ll help it grow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Are the mountains flat?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

None of what they say makes sense when you string any two parts of it together, so trying to figure out which thing is more mountain-like is giving them credit they're not really due.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Pedantic much? Have you coasters ever seen a landboat? Everyone here has seen a sail disappear at the horizon of the great plains.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When a ship gets far away and you only see the top half, it's behind a flat Earth water mountain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What's he not getting?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

No silly waves are on land. Have you ever heard of earth's largest wave? Wave Everest. A lot of people climb it every year. Sometimes they call them land waves to distinguish them further from water mountains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I should watch this again. Great movie.