It's not even necessary to get into the retrograde motions of the planets and other more complex facts to make the whole FET regarding the solar system fall flat on its face. They say that the sun is about 3,000 miles above the earth and moving horizontally, parallel to the earth's flat surface, and
that is clearly not possible. Not only would the sun never rise or set (it would merely appear lower in the sky) but it would shrink as it moved away. Have any of you seen the sun shrink in the sky as it supposedly moved away?
I brought this up in another thread but was completely ignored. The sun appears the same exact size in the sky at noon as it does when it's sinking on the horizon.
So, just observing the sky form your back yard reveals a sun that clearly is
not moving in the horizontal manner that FET claims.
Again, here's a quick animation I made demonstrating how the sun (due to perspective) would shrink to a tiny pin prick by the time it even started to get close to the horizon. I can't believe it's needed but FE folks seem to have a hard time visualizing how completely impossible their theories are right off the bat.
files.me.com/pgreenstone/zc9hrq.movAlso, in order for it to even come close to reaching the horizon the sun would have to move so extremely far out horizontally from the earth's supposed flat disk that the whole earth would end up in darkness. The speed required would also make noon go by in a flash as twilight lingered on for nearly the entire rest of the day. Again, even that is beyond the simple observable fact that the sun does not shrink in the sky... ever.
You guys really
live this Irony thing, don't you?