Great advice there, echo, ...
Actually, it's ecco
Septimatic, a retired professor, Martin Ystenes, has calculated that if the sun were 3000 miles away (4828km) then for the size we see the sun in the sky, it would have to be approximately 30 miles in diameter, or 50km in diameter. Considering the moon looks to be about the same size as ths sun, in flat earther nappy logic, this would mean the moon is also about 50km in diameter.
Septic, what have you or reverse Turbo got to say about that? Do you agree with the professor or not, and why? Its an easy question.
This site's Wiki has an explanation...
Distance to the Sun
On March 21-22 the sun is directly overhead at the equator and appears 45 degrees above the horizon at 45 degrees north and south latitude. As the angle of sun above the earth at the equator is 90 degrees while it is 45 degrees at 45 degrees north or south latitude, it follows that the angle at the sun between the vertical from the horizon and the line from the observers at 45 degrees north and south must also be 45 degrees. The result is two right angled triangles with legs of equal length. The distance between the equator and the points at 45 degrees north or south is approximately 3,000 miles. Ergo, the sun would be an equal distance above the equator.
And more...(My emphasis)
Finally, at the bottom of the article the author (at Millersville University) goes on to mention that a Flat Earth model would not work because the sun's visible diameter must shrink as it recedes. This is correct. Any receding body should shrink in diameter as it recedes into the far distance. However, it should be mentioned that the sun is not just any body, but one of incredible luminosity which catches onto the atmosphere and magnifies the sun's image the further it recedes from the observer.
This is how the sun maintains its diameter throughout the day and is discussed in depth in The Cosmos section of the Wiki:
Magnification of the Sun at Sunset
That's indisputable. I can't understand why all Flat Earther's don't know this and present it when asked.
Is the pronunciation of ecco any different to echo?
Yes, I love how the Earth's atmosphere magnifies only the sun and nothing else. Even the light from the projected stars on the firmament LCD screen all remain exactly the same size from dusk as they rise up from the horizon, to dawn when they go down into the horizon.
The light from those stars magically doesn't undergo any magnification. Just the sun. Just the self-propelled 50km diameter ball in the sky we call the sun, which in the flat earth magnification process, manages to retain the exact same size to the viewer it held during its entire arc across the sky during the day.
Oh, and I guess the moon with its mysterious cold moonlight, also undergoes the same magnification process? It doesn't change size either, does it? Because of it's mysterious "moonlight"? I hope this is mentioned on the Wiki as well?
Flat earthers are all over this aren't they?
Light properties from the sun and light properties from the moon, both enabling controlled magnification in the atmosphere! Even though sunlight which bounces off everybody and everything during the day, and moonlight the same at night, are both viewed through the atmosphere, and neither ever manages to magnify anything else!
Let's not forget, not only do the sun and moon magnify themselves, they also refract themselves to appear to disappear fully under the horizon where their presence in the flat earth world is suddenly undetectable. From bright daylight or full moon in the sky to still being high in the sky, but now invisible.
So, we have controlled magnification, controlled refraction, and finally invisibility for the flat earth sun and moon, which are each self-propelled in the flat earth sky. And, in Antarctic summer, the sun has the power of multiplicity. It is in all places around the Antarctic ice ring wall at all times, even though it is always only ever seen in one position in the sky and multiple duplicates of the sun are never seen at the same time.
The sun - Not a projection on the Firmament LCD screen, propels itself, magnifies itself, magnifies itself so perfectly there is never a discernible difference in size as it recedes in the distance, refracts itself, makes itself invisible, and finally multiplies itself to be in multiple places at once, but has the power to only ever seen as one sun. The flat earth moon would share most if not all of these super powers.
Sceptimatic, are there any super powers for the sun and moon that I missed?
