r/BeAmazed • u/Awkward_Click3061 • Nov 11 '23

Science Look at that

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u/PooleyX Nov 11 '23

Flat earthers 'explain' this by saying the sun moves in a circle over the flat earth.

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u/AltruisticCompany961 Nov 11 '23

They do try to explain this by saying that you can still use this rthod to calculate the height of the sun from the earth. They say it's approximately 3000 miles above the surface of the earth. But the problem is that if you do this experiment in different locations you get different heights of the sun. That's when you know the experiment proves the fact earth wrong. There would be no explanation for a sun that constantly changes its altitude.

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u/lala__ Nov 11 '23

To a normal person there wouldn’t.

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u/random_account6721 Nov 11 '23

true. If you understand physics and science it’s very easy

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u/SalvationSycamore Nov 11 '23

There would be no explanation for a sun that constantly changes its altitude.

"The giant invisible capybara in the sky bounces up and down as it carries the sun upon its back, causing the altitude to change"

It's actually really easy to make up explanations, you've just forgotten that you don't have to base them in reality.

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u/AltruisticCompany961 Nov 11 '23

I mean. That explanation works for me.