NEWSFLASH -- THE EARTH IS NO LONGER BELIEVED TO BE FLAT !!!
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Damn, and just when I was getting good at plane trigonometry...

OK, smart a** remarks aside, not only is the world round, it is very
round - in the sense that the horizon falls away so quickly that for
those who are not boaters/sailers it will be a surprise... We used to
keep our Pearson on Lake Huron, up at Tawas Bay... Every summer they
held the Laser fleet races on the bay... (These are small sail boats
with a gunnel about a foot high) It was common for me to sit on the
beach on a calm Sunday morning and look across the bay and see these
guys sailing in light air, with the sailer visible from the waist up -
the entire hull of the laser and his lower body were below the horizon
- I don't mean hidden by waves, the bay was a sheet of glass......

denny