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Re: Biruni and the radius of the Earth by dip
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2011 Jan 6, 23:27 +0200
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2011 Jan 6, 23:27 +0200
John, regarding your question: > In the shots, it's difficult in my eyes to tell whether I would call it a > "mirage effect" or just the horizon breathing. � The island itself under one > set of conditions appears to be a series of islets broken up, and under > another set of conditions, a continuous stretch. � I suppose this could be > considered something along those lines? May be the following Web-page from Andy Young can help you to answer this question: http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/mirages/mirsims/loom/loom.html#LandS Marcel
