"During a downright bizarre conversation, Marcus says: 'I think there is still very good evidence that suggests the world is flat.' When asked by another housemate for said evidence, he replies: 'Well if you actually look at the horizon, it's a straight line.' Marcus then claims all pictures from space are 'obviously' fake made by AI and that humans have never been to the moon."
"'The reason why we don't see the horizon curve off is simply scale,' Dr Whittaker told the Daily Mail. 'As an analogy, you look at a basketball and see the full curvature because you are massive compared to it. 'Now imagine a microbe on the surface, what would it see? It would just be a vast expanse of flat area because its height compared to the curvature of the ball is tiny.'"
"According to the expert, the reason why we see a straight horizon is quite simple - because we are on the ground rather than in space. At ground level, we only see a few miles from one side of the horizon to the other, which is not enough to see the curvature of the Earth. In reality, the curvature of the Earth can only be seen from space."
Two Big Brother housemates, Marcus and Elsa, state they are Flat Earthers, claiming the horizon appears straight, space images are fake AI, humans never went to the moon, and Earth is under a dome. A physics lecturer at Nottingham Trent University explains the horizon appears straight at ground level because observers see only a few miles, too small to detect Earth's curvature. Curvature becomes perceptible only from sufficient height in space. The lecturer uses a basketball-microbe analogy to illustrate scale differences and why nearby observers perceive a flat expanse.
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