I understand that the sun is much bigger than planes. My question is why is it that planes appear to grow smaller as they get further away, while the sun gets larger?
Like I said, it's distortion from moisture / whatever else is in the air. It's also a light source. A bright flashlight looks a lot different from the front than it does from the battery-end. Just think of what a headlight looks like when you're staring straight at it at night. It certainly doesn't look like a hot filament inside a glass tube. It looks like a glowing ball with streaks coming out. That's not an accurate representation of the object itself. If you have appropriate optics that can filter out the intensity of the sunlight, you can see that the sun itself is still small. As far as a plane goes, a plane is not a light source, so even though it may get distorted somewhat, it won't distort to nearly the same degree as a light source does.
That's nice and all but I'm mostly looking for information on how we can observe these everyday events while on a flat earth
There's just so much. The first and foremost thing is to calculate the curve, and attempt to observe it. Zero curvature.
Do you own a drone? Set it to a particular altitude, and then fly it away from you slowly, watch the angle change, see how far you need to fly it to get it to nearly eye-level. It won't be nearly as far as you think. This proves sunrise / set / other rules related to perspective that make you feel like you're within a 'dome'.
Get a squishy foam ball for a pool full of water. Spin it as fast as you can. What does the water do? Okay, so what would you have to do to keep that water 'stuck' to the ball? Would literally anything be able to leave the surface of that ball, if you were generating enough force to stick that water to the ball to make it as flat as glass?
Take a popcorn bowl full of water on a drive with you, with no top on it. Go 5mph. Brake. What does the water do? Drive down the freeway at 70mph. Do whatever you want. You won't do it without a top on it? Of course not. Water proves so much, but try it anyway so you can see how silly it is.
Think of a merry-go-round that you may have gone on as a kid. Near the center - not much speed. Near the edge - incredible speed. That's a few feet. So how is it that the atmosphere, as things get higher, just magically speeds up to mirror the speed of the spinning ball beneath it? Impossible.
Space and the second law of thermodynamics. Impossible.
We spin on our axis, orbit the sun, rocket parallel to the sun, and our galaxy flies in yet another direction - and somehow the stars in our sky reset perfectly every. single. year.
There are so many things. The helio model is perhaps one of the dumbest things ever.
Go back through this thread, read every glober's reply. Let me know when you find literally anything substantive. You won't, they're fools on this subject. That in and of itself is a big hint.
Like I said, it's distortion from moisture / whatever else is in the air. It's also a light source. A bright flashlight looks a lot different from the front than it does from the battery-end. Just think of what a headlight looks like when you're staring straight at it at night. It certainly doesn't look like a hot filament inside a glass tube. It looks like a glowing ball with streaks coming out. That's not an accurate representation of the object itself. If you have appropriate optics that can filter out the intensity of the sunlight, you can see that the sun itself is still small. As far as a plane goes, a plane is not a light source, so even though it may get distorted somewhat, it won't distort to nearly the same degree as a light source does.
There's just so much. The first and foremost thing is to calculate the curve, and attempt to observe it. Zero curvature.
Do you own a drone? Set it to a particular altitude, and then fly it away from you slowly, watch the angle change, see how far you need to fly it to get it to nearly eye-level. It won't be nearly as far as you think. This proves sunrise / set / other rules related to perspective that make you feel like you're within a 'dome'.
Get a squishy foam ball for a pool full of water. Spin it as fast as you can. What does the water do? Okay, so what would you have to do to keep that water 'stuck' to the ball? Would literally anything be able to leave the surface of that ball, if you were generating enough force to stick that water to the ball to make it as flat as glass?
Take a popcorn bowl full of water on a drive with you, with no top on it. Go 5mph. Brake. What does the water do? Drive down the freeway at 70mph. Do whatever you want. You won't do it without a top on it? Of course not. Water proves so much, but try it anyway so you can see how silly it is.
Think of a merry-go-round that you may have gone on as a kid. Near the center - not much speed. Near the edge - incredible speed. That's a few feet. So how is it that the atmosphere, as things get higher, just magically speeds up to mirror the speed of the spinning ball beneath it? Impossible.
Space and the second law of thermodynamics. Impossible.
We spin on our axis, orbit the sun, rocket parallel to the sun, and our galaxy flies in yet another direction - and somehow the stars in our sky reset perfectly every. single. year.
There are so many things. The helio model is perhaps one of the dumbest things ever.
Go back through this thread, read every glober's reply. Let me know when you find literally anything substantive. You won't, they're fools on this subject. That in and of itself is a big hint.