This May Be the Most Desperate Flat Earth Claim Yet

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Yes, I'm wearing a hat in this video.

[00:00:01]Yes, I lost a bet, and no, I don't want to talk about it. Right, Anthony Bear is my absolute favorite flat-earther. Is it because he's harmless and likable, or is it once because he filmed an entire video butt naked and we caught a quick reflection? It's definitely not because of that. What am I talking about?

[00:00:20]>> [music] [music] >> Hello all and welcome along to another episode of Flat Earth Friday with me, SciManDan. Thanks very much for joining me. Before we begin with today's video though, I was reading earlier how astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a tiny icy body extended beyond Pluto's orbit. And I was reading that story on Ground News, which was actually founded by a former NASA engineer called Harleen Kaur, who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, Ground News combines stories and articles from thousands of outlets, local and national, in one place, so readers can see the full picture of what's being reported around the world. As you can see here, Ground News shows you if there's any political leanings for each publication. And in this instance here, we can see that this story is mainly center-driven, with 112 total news sources. Now, for every story, you get a quick visual breakdown of the news outlet covering it, what their political biases, how factual the sources, which entity owns the source, and which countries are covering the story. Now, Ground News is also gaining notoriety for its work. They were recently recognized by the Nobel Peace Center for their impact on media literacy, saying it's an excellent way to stay informed, avoid echo chambers, and expand your worldview, which is exactly why we use Ground News, too. You can see every side to every story with international perspectives that are hard to find, so then you can make informed decisions where you can read, watch, and share the best information available. And Ground News is mission-centric. It's not about eliminating bias, but providing better transparency. And they're funded by the community, not by ads or big investors.

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[00:02:09]Right then, on with today's video which comes from Anthony Bear who thinks that Earth's curve is being hijacked.

[00:02:15]Curious. Let's find out what he's on about, shall we? Here we go. What if I told you that the limitations of your eyes or that the way your eyes work actually matches the curvature of the Earth.

[00:02:28]Don't you think that's quite a big big coincidence? Your eyes don't detect curvature, Anthony. They just focus light onto your retina. That is all. If your eyes were indeed matched to curvature, flat things would look curved. They obviously don't. Do you look at your kitchen table and see a Pringle?

[00:02:45]No. Well, there you go then. Is it possible the way our eyes work, the way we see is mistaken for Earth curvature?

[00:02:54]Let's find out. Okay, first I'm going to show you a couple clips from a video and then I'll leave a link if you want to watch the whole video later.

[00:03:02]It's an actual if you take the angular resolution limit of the eye, Mhm. right?

[00:03:07]That you can get the radius value of the Earth to the exact decimal place. The angular resolution limit of the eye is just the smallest angle your eye can distinguish. That depends on things like pupil size, light conditions at the time and distance to the object. Now, that's roughly about 0.02° on average. How are you getting the radius of the Earth to the exact decimal place from that, Witset? All right, the angular resolution limit of the human eye is about one arc minute or approximately between 0.02 and 0.03°.

[00:03:37]Now, using one arc minute or 0.02° a 6-ft observer the horizon should be about 2.9 mi.

[00:03:47]Scientifically, that's how your eyes function.

[00:03:50]Now, let's see if it matches reality.

[00:03:52]Now, what he's done here. He's taking a real horizon distance caused by Earth curvature, found a way to make eyesight sound as if it's involved, and then acted like the eye caused the horizon.

[00:04:03]Angle of resolution is about whether your eyes can distinguish between two separate details. The horizon is not a tiny object that your eye is trying to resolve. Okay, this is a great place to show you because here we can take a look at if science matches up to what we see.

[00:04:18]Let's take a look at some measurements out here on the lake using Google Earth.

[00:04:24]This is where at the Southwick's boat launch.

[00:04:28]Okay, so let's cruise out this way.

[00:04:31]And our first uh measurement here I'm going to show you a tree at uh about 3 mi away.

[00:04:42]Okay, so here's these two trees at 3 mi.

[00:04:45]And uh here's our marker and and here's a marker.

[00:04:50]Okay, so now let's move over this way.

[00:04:53]And we're going to go to uh Strawberry Island, which is uh right here.

[00:04:59]Which is uh 5.9 mi away. Here's what Strawberry Island looks like up close.

[00:05:05]Okay, and now we're going to cruise up this way.

[00:05:08]And there's a we're going to go up to Goat Island, which is right here. And there there's a tower on this island I'm going to show you.

[00:05:15]Which is 9.9 mi away.

[00:05:17]And then right here is a tree I'm going to show you that's 10 mi away.

[00:05:22]Oh, I love it when they set it all up like they think they've got something.

[00:05:25]All good, Anthony. All good. Let's see your footage.

[00:05:29]Okay, so let's take a closer look out here at 10 mi.

[00:05:32]Okay, so here's our tree right here, first tree.

[00:05:37]And then we'll keep going to the left here.

[00:05:39]And uh here is Goat Island. Here's the tower.

[00:05:45]Here you can see the tree and the tower at the same time.

[00:05:48]So, we got trees at 3 miles, 6 miles, and 10 miles.

[00:05:53]Let's see what they look like in reality.

[00:05:56]Okay, so here's Strawberry Island at 6 miles.

[00:06:00]Now, I looked at the horizon with my naked eye, and then I matched the camera zoom to match your eye, so it looks the same. Now, here's the 3-mile tree, and uh here's the trees at 10 miles.

[00:06:12]So, the first thing you should notice is that the horizon is right at 3 miles, just like it should be. For viewer height of 6 ft, Anthony, yes. But, the viewer height is not 6 ft, is it, my friend? Because you are standing at least 2 m above the surface of that lake. So, that means the viewer height is at least 3.5 m, which is more like 11 or 12 ft. Now, that viewer height gives you a refractive horizon of around 4 and 1/2 miles, not the 3 miles that you're claiming. So, that's a match.

[00:06:42]Now, let's move Strawberry Island over so we can compare them.

[00:06:45]Okay, here's the trees that are at 3 miles. Now, that's how far you can see, so there's no hidden curvature there.

[00:06:52]Now, on the left side is Strawberry Island, and uh at 6 miles away, there should be 6 ft of curvature, so the bottom of the tree should be missing by 6 ft, and that makes kind of sense. It's Look how it's a little bit lower than the 3-mile trees. Now, in the middle, you got your 10-mile trees.

[00:07:10]Now, those trees are supposed to have 32 ft missing, and you can see they're half as tall, so that makes total sense. In reality, what we see, as far as the Earth's curvature goes, matches uh the way our eyes work, according to science.

[00:07:25]Well, with that adjusted viewer height, there should only be around 1 ft hidden on Strawberry Island, and 17 ft of those trees 10 miles away. But, that's not the point here. Objects looking smaller with distance is, of course, just perspective. It has nothing to do with curvature, and nothing to do with the eye's limits. As something moves further away, it takes up a smaller angle in your vision, so therefore it looks smaller. That's true on a flat surface, a curved surface, anywhere. Curvature does not make things smaller. It makes them disappear from the bottom up. Now, that is a completely different effect.

[00:07:56]He's taken three completely different effects here, perspective, atmosphere, and curvature, and then bundled them all together under your eyes did it. The horizon that we see 3 mi away is a physical horizon, and those trees in the background at 10 mi, the bottom is gone because it's being blocked by Earth curvature.

[00:08:16]Now, here's where the problem comes in.

[00:08:18]What happens when you use a super zoom camera?

[00:08:22]And check it out.

[00:08:23]Okay, there's that first tree, and you can see the ground underneath it.

[00:08:28]The horizon is here.

[00:08:29]These trees should be half gone, hidden by water.

[00:08:33]Uh that's a big problem. Well, it's not really. You can see how turbulent the atmosphere is in this footage. The conditions are clearly causing refraction here. That certainly lets you see more than you normally would. And now, let's go to left here. You can see how all the ground under the trees.

[00:08:49]There's a barge. Okay, there's the tower on Grosse Ile right there.

[00:08:54]And and we'll come back over here.

[00:08:57]Okay, there's that little that little marker right there that's 3 mi out.

[00:09:02]So, we go from 3 mi to 10 mi.

[00:09:04]Where did all that curvature go?

[00:09:07]It didn't go anywhere. Notice how you can't see to the other side of Lake St. Clair here, Anthony. That's your curvature, my friend.

[00:09:15]Okay, so the horizon was here at 3 mi.

[00:09:19]Let's zoom back in a little bit.

[00:09:24]And now, the horizon is here at 10 mi.

[00:09:27]So, obviously the horizon is not physical. Do you think you can just zoom through the water and see the bottom of the trees again? Clearly, your viewer height is even higher than I suggested earlier. It's not great if you're saying a viewer height of 6 ft when the thing you're standing on is even higher than that. On top of that, the trees you're seeing at 10 mi away are sitting on land that's 1 m above the lake surface.

[00:09:50]Let's come back over to here.

[00:09:52]The bottom of the barge is right here.

[00:09:55]And the horizon is up there.

[00:09:57]Now, how is it the horizon in the background is higher than the barge?

[00:10:02]As I said, refraction is playing a big part here in making that piece of land visible.

[00:10:07]We're going to want a ball, right?

[00:10:09]The ground or the water is supposed to be pitching down and away.

[00:10:13]The horizon is above the barge. That doesn't make any sense.

[00:10:17]But let me show you why.

[00:10:19]Let's lay a hallway over the lake.

[00:10:21]Now, you see how the hallway ramps up to eye level? Well, the lake does the same thing.

[00:10:27]What they're calling a ball or a globe is just the way your eyes work. It's perspective.

[00:10:34]The lake ramps right up to eye level.

[00:10:37]Case you think it was a fluke, here's a different day.

[00:10:44]Sometimes I come out it looks like this.

[00:10:47]Uh the atmosphere isn't uh cooperating.

[00:10:50]Here's another day where I can see the tree and all the ground underneath it.

[00:10:54]Here's another day. I've I've done it many times.

[00:10:58]Yeah, it's not a fluke. That's atmospheric refraction, Anthony, not perspective changing. The air bends light differently depending on conditions. You've literally shown that by providing more examples. So, you're not seeing no hidden curvature at 10 mi.

[00:11:13]So, obviously when you zoom in a straw beyond 6 mi away, you can see everything.

[00:11:21]So, maybe years ago we didn't have high zoom cameras.

[00:11:25]But uh we have them now.

[00:11:31]I mean, what's the chances?

[00:11:33]What's the possibility of such a huge coincidence that our eyes match the curvature of the earth?

[00:11:43]Our vision was hijacked and they called the earth a ball. Our eyes do not match the curvature at all, Anthony. They are completely unaware of it. The horizon is not created by your vision, it's created by geometry. Change the planet and the horizon changes. Your eyes don't. If his perspective ramp idea were true, changing your height wouldn't change what you see because your eyes are exactly the same. But in reality, go from 6 ft up to 100 ft up and everything changes. The horizon moves miles further away and parts of distant objects that were previously hidden suddenly become visible again. Now, perspective alone can't do that. It only makes things look smaller, not reveal hidden sections. And that's where we're going to leave Anthony today and wrap up another video.

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