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● RDT COMM ·Jzaharek53 ·August 23, 2026 ·11:00Z

I photographed the curvature of the Earth from a commercial flight at 42,000 feet

I took this somewhere over Mauritania in the Sahara on a flight from Paris to Freetown, Sierra Leone, at about 42,000 ft in exceptionally dry, clear conditions. I didn’t notice it at the time, but looking back at the shot, the curvature of the horizon is
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