re: #184 KGxvi

In their model the sun is actually much smaller and much closer. The moon is also a translucent disk or something. It’s utterly insane (I occasionally check a flat earth instagram feed for lols, Kelly Slater (yes, the surfer) is constantly in their comments debunking shit and making fun of them). They think the reason days are shorter (in the northern hemisphere) in the winter is because the sun has to move faster around the outside of the disk. They’ve never managed to explain why days are so long in the southern hemisphere in December - usually calling it a conspiracy or lies or some such. And given that millions of people live very far south of the equator, it’s a hell of a conspiracy.

But that doesn’t make sense either. If the earth is flat and the sun is smaller and closer, then it would STILL rise and set everywhere at the same time, but the size (area of the sky taken up by the sun) would change over the course of the day, and that change would be different depending on where you are - large at sunrise, small at sunset if you’re in the East, small at sunrise and large at sunset if you’re in the West, and small at sunrise and sunset but larger at noon if you’re in the middle.