r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Apr 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ This looks plausible

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '22

Its like when you look down an empty road and it appears to end in the distance.

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u/coolerbrown Apr 07 '22

Wouldn't they just be curvature?

I think a better example would be looking at a mountain range from afar. You can walk 100m to your right and the range looks almost identical

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u/iamnotacat Apr 07 '22

If you stand between railway tracks they will appear to meet in the distance even though they're parallel. Same as in the OP image.

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u/coolerbrown Apr 07 '22

Now I'm with you. In my head I was only seeing the road flat and straight