Well, the trick is that to do something like that you'd have to find a place that's PERFECTLY flat. If the thing were on a bit of a hill or down in a bit of a dip, the results would be invalid. I wonder if we could find some place like that, where it's perfectly level for miles. Most of the time people try to perform these experiments over the water, which is generally going to be level, but even then you might have issues with waves compromising its perfect level-ness. That's why the focus is on larger objects, say, viewing a building or mountain from miles away, since it would take miles for the curvature to cover something bigger than that. Then the problem withing being miles away is that people will claim "refraction" or "mirage" or something due to the atmospheric conditions in between.
So your experiment is definitely worth doing ... IF one can find a place that's perfectly flat/level the entire way. I've seen people use frozen lakes to conduct some experiments.
My husband and I were reading up on refraction and light curves towards cold, so a frozen lake wouldn't help because the light would bend toward the ice and away from the warm air above (This is true for lasers as well). I am not sure how that really effects things. I have to do more study.
While I was trying to find the video my husband showed me last night. I came across this video.
Please just view with an open mind. Thank you.
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