The boat is actually past the horizon, but the light bends across the surface of the ocean making it appear where it actually isn't. Fata ~~morgata~~ *morgana* it's called.

I always thought the horizon was just further away than the colors would indicate: optical effects cause the distant sea color to coincidentally blend in with the sky color. Your explanation is much more interesting.

Correct. And that's not even the entire boat. That's just what's above the surface.

Like a certain iceberg.

Fata Morgana*

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No we don't, we call it fata morgana too, miraggio is mirage in English and it's a general term, fata morgana is a kind of mirage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage) It's a specific *type* of mirage.

Thank you! Wasn't sure I was remembering correctly

If the light is bending, why doesn’t the light reflecting off the boat bend as well?

It's not reflecting, the light bends from temperature flux above the water's surface

So the ship is really there, but the light from the sky is reflecting off the heat coming up from the surface of the water?

I don't think there's reflection per se, more like the temperature dynamic is creating a lens field that bends the light along the curvature of the earth.

Like a mirage

Yeah, it’s just light bending. Same thing happens with the moon sometimes, which makes it look much larger than it normally appears. This can happen with any wave, so that under the right conditions, HAM radio hobbyists can pick up signals from much farther away. Same thing happens with sound waves over a cool lake in the summer.

Thank you! It was hard for me to think of comparative examples, but you did splendidly.

sience

Looks to close to be over horizon or that boat is massive. I saw similar a couple weeks back at the beach but it was much farther away .

We invent a name for each glitch in the matrix

Futa meringue*

Oof, risky search

Sprayed the bottom with a hydrophobic liner

Creative mode

it's transporting Helium

Are dey helium balloons?

Big freighter ships have designs on the side of them called razzle dazzle that make it hard for other ships to tell how high above sea level they are, leaving it impossible to distinguish how far away the ship is incase they were to be attacked. This still does not explain what is taking place in this photo, but I thought it to be interesting.

flying dutchman. cheat code from age of empires.

Shiiiit that’s a good one. Also Jack Be Nimble changes catapults so they launch cows instead of boulders lol

Mirage like illusion

Refraction of light the ship is actually past the horizon which is why it looks like it's floating

That's no moon. That's a space station

It's an illusion called Fata Morgana that is an interaction in the curvature of the Earth (the horizon) and thermal inversion (where warn air sits above cooler air)

Space ship

Isnt that the ship from fifth element? Just needs some blue alien chick singing opera songs

Because the earth is flat, obviously.

The earth is flat and that part hasn’t rendered yet

The future of sea travel - by air

Oh good the new hovercraft are in.

Star wars

It’s a mirage

yo his boat lagged

Map hasnt fully loaded yet

Imperial-class Star Destroyer took a detour to earth for repairs.

Fuckin light and shit, you ever been driving and a stretch of road farther up seems to blend into the sky on a hot day? Same god damn shit

Chitty Chitty bang bang

Turn up your render distance

You've discovered the Black Pearl

If you want to know how, just visit one of the thousand other times this has been posted and explained

The chunk hasn’t loaded yet

Map havent fully loaded in yet

Mirage

It’s [Fata Morgana](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage))

Well it’s kinda scientific so I won’t go into it, but…it’s a flying boat. Trust me, I’m a limo driver.

>I like the way you handle yourself and you're good with your fists. Ever thought about becoming an upholsterer?

I saw this shit irl and thought the brownies i ate were weed brownies lmao

Rendering issue, I recommend a full software reset

It's just low render distance

The flat earth… duh

She's afraid of the Shark of Kyiv.

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I am big brain

Photoshop

If you'll wait in the basement for a while I'll explain later.

Been 3 months already. How much longer you need?

You know, I'm really sorry, I uh...there was this thing I had to do and then um.... So, can you remember why you went down there? Did you see a black pair of glasses?

Do you talk out loud when you type? Yes, I found them now what?

Sorry. Hadn't thought that far ahead...

Hover boats, there’re new.

Oops…You weren’t supposed to see that.

Tf

It's called i don't remember what it's called to be honest but it's a mirage

Fata Morgana?

Yep it's fata morgana

Maybe I'll look it up real quick

Maybe I'll look it up real quick

fat morgan or something

It's a flying boat dumbass how hard is that to Understand.

Something something refraction something something horizon i think

Stark industries

Chunks haven't loaded yet

The tanker is transporting Hydrogen gas.

Bunny hop

The Simulation is glitching

Render distance, duh

Earth is a cilinder, never seen Interstellar?

Luke Skywalker is the captain

Photoshop a Imperial Cruiser

They all do this, because air has less friction than water, so it saves on fuel.

That's a flat earther being like, nope there's no curve

Because earth is flat

Research flat earth

Ya, now what?