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In today's episode of "Just Fucking Answer the Question Already", we have Can you see Newfoundland from Cape Breton? As usual, the closest they get is quoting an expert giving a half-answer, and not including a significant amount of rebuttal.
Look, the typical CBC reporter is going to tune out once the researcher starts talking about "the sagitta of the circle segment".
The expert is just giving an evasive answer because he doesn't want to do detailed work to make sure that's how NL should look in the photo.
The math says that earth curvature shouldn't block the view of the higher parts of NL.
Is there a strong rebuttal posted somewhere?
Nope, the closest thing to a real counterargument is a distance-to-horizon calculation that forgets that the other side can be above the horizon too. I believe that you can see Newfoundland from Cape Breton (and vice versa), but it's not really thanks to the CBC for that. I had to recalculate it myself and I tried looking up more pictures as well.
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