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These videos are not meant to prove anything or refute anything, but just to provide an alternative hypothesis. When multiple reasonable hypothesis exist, then this opens up the topic to further research and testing.

Very simply, these experiments are done to see if there are any other phenomena that may be present that creates the appearance of ships disappearing behind the horizon. The first experiment was done by a Joseph Klimera. I saw several problems or questions that I had with his test, so I set off to replicate my own. The second video is my first experiment that I conducted. I commented on Joseph's video of his own experiment that I was unable to replicate his results. This was last night (July 23rd 2015). Today I took an objective look at my experiment and realized that I had made an error, or that there was something else that I had not tested. I reformed this experiment today (July 24th 2015), and even halfway through that experiment, I had not noticed the results.

Halfway through my second experiment, I noticed the signs of the phenomena that I was experimenting for. This point is easily noticeable in my video. Propelled to refine my experiment even more, I conducted my own third experiment. I believe that the results speak for themselves.

Again, before I link this video, I am not making any claims about what they prove or disprove. I claim nothing of the sort, but am just proposing alternative possibilities to the normal thought process of this phenomena. There are still some things that I want to test futher, different shaped containers, and different distances, so my experiments are not finished. But, Joseph Klimera did design an experiment that is able to be replicated and critiqued.


Joseph Klimera's first experiment - www.youtube.com...
- In this experiment, I am skeptical because the viewer is not sure if he has dropped the camera below the countertop or not. This plus the shaky nature of the camera prodded me to design my own test.

My first experiment and second both on same video - www.youtube.com...
- In the first experiment, I was using my tripod and holding the camera upside down close to the table. I was unahappy with the results and thought that they showed nothing. My second experiment, I see more of the phenomena because I back the objects away from the "lens". In the second experiment, I just slide the camera along the tabletop. I noticed the results about halfway through this test.

My third experiment - www.youtube.com...
- In my third experiment, I set my tripod up at the end of the table, and only move the container (which was creating a lens).


Conclusions
- It seems as if the water and container create a lens distortion on the objects. This distortion seemed maximum about 40% away from the camera (in relation to total distance).
- I wonder if atmospheric water vapor could attest for a similar lens affect, without a container?
- Due to my similar results, this gives me confidence in Joseph's original test
- I have no proposed source of this distortion or phenomena in nature
- With confidence in this test, I propose that it be replicated under different circumstances worldwide
- I plan to test this at longer distance with telescope, or telephoto camera lens.
- Also I feel it is important to consider different shaped containers, two curved sides, single curve, as the container that I tested was double flat
- If proposing an atmospheric lens, we must evaluate the experiment with possible other attributing factors that could play into the light phenomena (chemtrails, pollution, evaporation, high or low humidity, salt spray or waves)

Thank You all....... I would definitely love your input on this phenomena that we see. One thing that I was curious about, was that it could be the bottom of the container that is creating the distortion. Please judge for yourself, but I do not think that this was a factor in the perceived differences.

=ThreeDeuce