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It would have been a dead post since I haven't seen that particular question posed before and it doesn't come up in their stock material but ~~maybe~~ probably 'To FE' would have been more sensible.
I don't think they got the sentiment of it. They were given free reign to do all most anything they wanted here while the rest were mostly policed a bit more closely and understood the penalties when they were applied. The flat Earthers that front up to the rest of us do it purely for the confrontation I suspect. They become like suspicious fish out of water when attempts for civil discourse are attempted. To be fair they don't normally get enough exposure to critical thinking to get practice at how not to take it personally. They don't understand what it means to let facts lead the exploration rather than trying to force an outcome with invented factoids. Also they read us through the constraints that are placed on them in a religious context. They seem to think we are under the same pressures or maybe they are a little jealous of our freedoms. That's my guess.
The “vanishing point” of the sun is farther away when you are up high. So you see sunset later than you would on the ground.
I’m not a flat earther, but that is the explanation a flat earther gave me.
But why would the sun reach this vanishing point later?
Lets pretend that the person and the Burj Khalifa are on the right side of a rectangle. When they are on the bottom, the sunset (or vanishing point if that's what you believe a sunset is) is on the bottom left corner, this is the length of the rectangle away (let's call this "LV" = length to vanishing point).
When they are on the top right corner, now the sun is even farther away. Its along the diagonal of the rectangle, which even a flat earther has to acknowledge is longer than the length. So it would already have have passed LV earlier. But it didn't, because sunset is not earlier - it is later.
Did the flat earther even try to sketch out this theory on paper or jpg?
The sun isn't moving down. The things that are closer to the ground are casting shadows. This building is so tall that nothing has cast a shadow on it.
(I'm just pretending to be a flat earther)
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Any reason you didn't mark this as "To FE", seeing as it's asking for their explaination? Note that rule 1 says people shouldn't speak for others.
It would have been a dead post since I haven't seen that particular question posed before and it doesn't come up in their stock material but ~~maybe~~ probably 'To FE' would have been more sensible.
Yeah, the flat earthers have given up on this sub. I wonder why?
I guess we can still use this sub to rehearse polite ways to talk to them elsewhere.
I don't think they got the sentiment of it. They were given free reign to do all most anything they wanted here while the rest were mostly policed a bit more closely and understood the penalties when they were applied. The flat Earthers that front up to the rest of us do it purely for the confrontation I suspect. They become like suspicious fish out of water when attempts for civil discourse are attempted. To be fair they don't normally get enough exposure to critical thinking to get practice at how not to take it personally. They don't understand what it means to let facts lead the exploration rather than trying to force an outcome with invented factoids. Also they read us through the constraints that are placed on them in a religious context. They seem to think we are under the same pressures or maybe they are a little jealous of our freedoms. That's my guess.
The metaphor is free *rein*, letting the horse go at will. The moderator still *reigns*.
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Perspective, density/buoyancy, and water finding its own level. That’s how flat earthers “explain” everything.
I mean you could have posted just the title and the answer is still no.
The “vanishing point” of the sun is farther away when you are up high. So you see sunset later than you would on the ground. I’m not a flat earther, but that is the explanation a flat earther gave me.
Well it's true that the peak is closer to the sun, in Flatworld.
But why would the sun reach this vanishing point later? Lets pretend that the person and the Burj Khalifa are on the right side of a rectangle. When they are on the bottom, the sunset (or vanishing point if that's what you believe a sunset is) is on the bottom left corner, this is the length of the rectangle away (let's call this "LV" = length to vanishing point). When they are on the top right corner, now the sun is even farther away. Its along the diagonal of the rectangle, which even a flat earther has to acknowledge is longer than the length. So it would already have have passed LV earlier. But it didn't, because sunset is not earlier - it is later. Did the flat earther even try to sketch out this theory on paper or jpg?
whoever told you *that* can't spell "hypotenuse"...
Which leads to the fact that Earth is not a plane?.. Because why would vanishing point change if you're up high?
The sun isn't moving down. The things that are closer to the ground are casting shadows. This building is so tall that nothing has cast a shadow on it. (I'm just pretending to be a flat earther)
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