u/legitOwen

here's an unedited photo of the ocean i took when i was on vacation last year. i placed a bright, red, perfectly straight line running horizontally across the image, right above the ocean horizon. you can clearly see that the ocean is curved, since the water is closer to the line near the center, and further below it near the edges.

this is not lens distortion, as you can clearly make out the uniform waves going southeast (it was a windy day). you can also see a hint of a ship on the middle-right, which is clearly partially covered by water (or, you know, the curvature of the earth)

i made a close up of how different the edges were in case you couldn't see it well enough, these are screenshots from the same design, so the red line in this image is not changed.

flerfs, i know this will do nothing to change your mind, but hey, at least it looks cool.

edit: i'm getting flamed in the comments (because y'all are right it is almost entirely due to pincushion distortion), but i found another photo i took where the horizon was virtually perfectly centered (thanks, iOS Camera gridlines), which shows that the difference is like a pixel, but it's still something: https://imgur.com/a/HXgzdtO
and there are way better experiments out there, i found it in my camera roll and at first glance it looked convincing, thanks for the corrections tho, my fault for not researching more.

it will never cease to amaze me that BCNY writes a different description for each minor Chromium update.