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Apr 12, 2018 8:10 AM
metalheadmafia
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Sorry if it's a repost
FP edit: Thanks :) Said metal music.
ehoba666
I didn't know the Pacific Garbage Patch was on top of a mountain
PassionateIndifference
I think those are flags, that being said Everest is covered in litter, shit and bodies that never decompose due to the alititude
shitesucker
You could be using a fisheye lens ?
whereigotogetdownvotes
Flat-earthers know, they just want to aggravate and it works like a charm.
itbelikedatsumtime
Not saying the Earth is flat but that is not an accurate representation of the curvature of the earth...
honestlyengine
The Flat Earth Society has offices all around the globe.
IBuiltAFreakingArk
That's just the edge, the end if you would
DickMcStiffens
Fisheye lens....guaranteed.
ZuSanLiHeGu
Kathmandu : Come for the view. Stay because meat Popsicles can't climb down.
NikoTelec
Kathmandu is in a valley :/
lawideas
I know the earth is a sphere but that curvature is from the camera lens. Everest isn't high enough to see the curvature of the earth.
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Highest point on Earth, well time to dump my trash
ParsleyJ
Fish eye lens. You have to go higher to see the actual curvature.
MrCaCaRoTe
but thats high enough to see your moms curvature
metalheadmafia
https://www.quora.com/On-Mount-Everest-an-observer-sees-the-horizon-roughly-230-miles-away-The-Earth-should-curve-35-000-feet-Why-doesnt-the
OuroborosX
That's not a fisheye lens. Wide angle yes, but not fisheye.
Bollen2k
People still believe the lies of NASA? LOOOoool
19somethingand5
dankesthorse
When will people learn you aren't supposed to see a curve? A curve like that would imply Earth is a cylinder.
metalheadmafia
https://www.quora.com/On-Mount-Everest-an-observer-sees-the-horizon-roughly-230-miles-away-The-Earth-should-curve-35-000-feet-Why-doesnt-the
twofishtails
Let's start a Cylindrical Earth Society!
insomniac24x7
Oh please you are just using a fisheye lens!!!
definitelyNOTabunny
If the earth were the size of a pool ball (61.5 mm), Everest would be the size of a grain of salt. (.04 mm) at that height you couldn't
Mewmus
i've read that if the earth was scaled down to the size of a bowling ball that it would be smoother than a bowling ball
definitelyNOTabunny
really see the curvature of the earth at this extent. For that you have to go up a bit higher, this is most likely taken with a gopro style
definitelyNOTabunny
camera
Aardvarksneedlove
Lens distortion
airbreather
Obviously Earth isn't flat, but the curvature shown here is largely the product of a very short focal length (wide-angle or fisheye) lens.
metalheadmafia
https://www.quora.com/On-Mount-Everest-an-observer-sees-the-horizon-roughly-230-miles-away-The-Earth-should-curve-35-000-feet-Why-doesnt-the
DavidBrooker
You can have extremely short focal lengths and not be a fisheye. "Fisheye" refers specifically only to the geometric mapping of the image.
airbreather
Technically correct--which *is* the best kind of correct--but for the most part such distortion is typical of short-focal-length lenses.
DavidBrooker
EG: the Nikon 13mm/5.6 - a $50,000 lens with a 120 degree, totally linear, undistorted field of view
Erutanmi
Fish eye lens. Liar.
SoletsImugr
Fish-eye lenses always make flat lines curved.
korvkiosk
At the temp and pressure at this altitude, a wide angled lens will always display a distorted horizon. It’s actually flat.
alecdshope
'Shopped.
TheCalvinShow
"If I bend a piece of paper, is it not flat anymore?" - Stupid kid at my son's school
blackguard89
that's a fisheye lens. That's the first thing they will moan and bitch over when they see this picture.
manulofdoom
Yeah, fish eye lens. I've seen pictures from orbit with less visible curvature. Also, look at the top right corner.
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allmostthere1234
"ISS". Good try NASA. I almost fell off the edge the other day. I know whats real....
manulofdoom
Did one of the elephants catch you?
mintblasterliam
?
glacialbae
I'm not sure why you were downvoted for not knowing something. It was a Discworld reference.
PraiseThePook
I've been all over the world. Seen it from some pretty incredible perspectives. Doesn't matter. Some people will never believe.
imyovaptian
That’s a space peanut.
bantambasher135
It's not the shape of the horizon that demonstrates the earth's curvature, just its existence. A flat earth would have no horizon.
wa27
JohnZzI
Still not flat
manulofdoom
Of course it isn't flat. Just wanted to mention that this photo is weird.
JohnZzI
Just had to be sure
Ulysses1
If you correct the light ray to be straight, wouldn't that curve the horizon more?
raminagrobis
You can't see the curvature, even from an airplane. You'd need to go to space which is impossible for most people. Arguing with FErs using >
raminagrobis
wrong facts is the worse one can do. Learn before talking about science, or you'll add to the ignorance. Which this silly caption does.
unknownmale
light flaring in the lens?
twozerooz
And it's warped because it's a fish eye lens
metalheadmafia
https://www.quora.com/On-Mount-Everest-an-observer-sees-the-horizon-roughly-230-miles-away-The-Earth-should-curve-35-000-feet-Why-doesnt-the
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4No1AfR8
Hmmm he has a fisheye lens. All things are curvy then. Even his mom.????
LEEEEROOOOYYYJEEEENNNKIIIINNNS
Probably a wide angle. Fish eye would be way more curved out all the way around.
NickRivieraMD
fisheye curves it inwards:
sunboy4224
I think if the horizon is above the center line (as in OP's picture), it would curve the other way, "downwards".
datma
Only if the horizon is in the lower half of the shot, if it is in the upper half it curves the other way.
NickRivieraMD
good point
BleachedBoohole
It's most likely an ultra wide angle lens with the Everest photo.
derJake
There are rectilinear UWA lenses, this has to be a fisheye. Gopro because of weight, I guess?
ItsCalledPopWhereImFrom
Unless his phone gas a fish I lens, I think its legit. U can see taking the picture with his phone in the reflection of his goggles
sfcorax
You can see the phone with those pixels?
mearas
What is the deal with fish eye lenses? Why do you want that?
DavidBrooker
A fisheye lens doesn't have a rectilinear mapping (that's the relationship between points in the image with those in the real world). 1/2
DavidBrooker
The wider the field of view of a lens, the higher its optical power, and the more expensive it is to construct. A fisheye lens allows 2/3
DavidBrooker
cheaper construction for the same field of view. Their original purpose was astronomy and meteorology - imaging the entire sky, the 3/4
DavidBrooker
whole horizon, 360 degrees, in one 35mm frame. Photographers liked the effect, and they entered the commercial market 50 years later. 4/4
DavidBrooker
If you want a comparable field of view to a fisheye on a full-frame camera, your only option is $60,000:
DavidBrooker
(This is the widest rectilinear / non-fisheye lens ever made for Nikon - they show up on eBay about once a year for the price of a new BMW)
zoeaW1ndXI
You can fit more in a single image with a fisheye or wide angle lens.
RPCd
Yeah but you only get more garbage on a pic and it still doesn't look like it really looks.
DavidBrooker
Photography is about subject and context. The relative size of subject and context changes with distance and field of view. If you're 1/2
DavidBrooker
filling the frame with garbage, then you are not balancing subject and context appropriately. 2/2
mearas
True, but it is not a real reprensation. I always dislike when people use fisheye, especially on mountains. Everything looks so steep.
zoeaW1ndXI
Do photos need to look real though? I think they look quite cool. Sick skate tricks on youtube wouldn't be as great without the fisheye.
mearas
No, they don't have to. I'm just saying I dislike it. If you want to show cool moves, by all means, if you want to show reality, don't.
MyOcs3rdContent
What's with all the rubbish behind him? I didn't know usersub was on top of Mount Everest
bukkakeshots
Prayer flags
poopypigeon
The colourful ones are prayer flags. The white ones are ceremonial khatas. Both are associated with Tibetan Buddhism.
blueskylikemind11
Prayer flags
WarlockOPain
It's all the flags.
TomZarekVP
all of them?
BugEyedLemur
I'm just gonna say it... LITTERING IN THE NAME OF RELIGION IS STILL LITTERING.
duckbutt1234567101
Well noone goes up yhere to clean because they could. DIE
Satansbreeches
Its all the dead.
Slonchman
Player frags
ICouldntComeUpWithAUsername
Not rubbish. Prayer flags
FuckMeThenYou
Turns out it's the same thing when you throw it out side
redbacardi
One man's treasure, is another man's trash.
WookieWookieWookie
When you can't even see the top of the mountain it's still trash.
ItChanges
We will go to the highest peaks to put thrash there and hope it stays there forever.
rohbot
Himalayan/ Tibetan prayer flags.
FuckMeThenYou
garbage
canibalpicante
I would love to fuck you then go fuck myself.
TheMostSolidSnake
Funny that's where your mom tried to put you.
ProbablyNotYourFather
No u
FuckMeThenYou
on the top of mount everest?
TheMostSolidSnake
Yes! She said as a travel marker that you would at least have some use.
Z3ds
Flager prays
drGrafenberg
Well, it's sort of a tourist attraction and we all know what tourists do to places.
shimmernshine
I think the families of the corpses in these pictures would prefer you used a term other than 'rubbish'.
nossan
What corpses?
RdizzyC
Bodies aren't really any different than any other organic waste.
shimmernshine
That's one point of view on the subject.
mtgtprh
And today's winner for "Quotes that you Hear from a Serial Killer" is...
TheManyMadMasks
Great Everest garbage patch. All the years of planes dumping their trash in the air. Wind currents drag it all here. Sad really.
worddodger
Why is this being downvoted?
broadroderick
You're a liar, and retarded.
PygmyYak
And here we see a reminder of what happens when op makes the fatal mistake of not including /s
TheManyMadMasks
Tonight I dine in Trollhalla.
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castoocool
There's garbage and corpses all over Everest. You can't get that shit down
fadecomic
Literal shit, too. That stuff freezes and doesn't decompose.
TresusIbor
I've thought of a somewhat fucked up way to retrieve a corpse on Mount Everest.
Cosmogonic
here's mine. baloons, bodybags with a solid buckle at one end. GPS blackbox inside the bag, and a two man craddle with hydrogen/helium.
Cosmogonic
collect the corpse, bag it, attach it to an uninflated baloon, inflate down to 5kg or less, let the baloon go in the winds that drift away.
TresusIbor
Take an air pump and a single person inflatable raft. Tie the corpse to the inflated raft and give it a good push. "See you at the bottom!"
JayEnfield
*Raft goes 3 feet, hits jagged rocks, deflates and slides into a crevasse.
JosteinCena
Out of sight, out of mind.
BugEyedLemur
This would not work at all but it's a pretty funny thought so +1
WabbitEars
Zorbs would be better!!
metalheadmafia
It's not, that's why this hit front page.
fozzibab
Regardless of what anyone calls them, they're scraps of paper and cloth. Garbage. Count on humans to fuck up any environment they visit.
Qualtagh
What organisms exactly are being fucked up in this scenario? Are all those Mt. Everest seagulls eating the flags and hurting their tummies?
Magicflutefreddie
Isn't clothing biodegradable?
khold90
Not at that altitude. Like a lot of things on the mountain they're basically frozen in time. Especially with no moisture.
CaptainJellyStar
Those are prayer flags
YourAuntThatGrabsYourAssWhenDrunk
You'd think that at least on top of Mt Everest there's no fucking garbage, but nooo....
Kitastrophe
I mean... maybe let's chill with calling the prayer flags of another culture garbage?
bukkakeshots
There’s bodies. Many many
ImNotTaylorSwift
Dude, we have garbage on the moon. Of course we've trashed every inch of Earth.
zombiebatman
Moon garbage is special though.
ImNotTaylorSwift
Didn't they leave poopoo on the moon?
zombiebatman
I certainly hope so.
gtmiller
Its rotten with garbage and corpses of those that never finished the climb.
feeltheice
Well that's the problem. Things are not rotting
HouseOfEvil
The mountain is littered with corpses, & the air tanks they needed to get them there. It's pretty awful, really.
GreenZebraCoconuts
Not to mention the poo!
Atomic2
poocicles
AsFarAsIKnow
yeah someone needs to go pick up the litter
TresusIbor
Send robots.
kecker
There is occasionally an effort to do so, but it's incredibly dangerous.
ImNotTaylorSwift
What if they become a corpse in the process?
QuestionableLifeChoices
This is pretty common actually.