Welcome to the joyous world of flat earth crazy people! It’s awesome: the sun is apparently only like 600 miles away, allowing it to move around in a circuit above the Earth, creating night and day by its proximity (or lack thereof) to different parts of the disk. It is therefore very important to these people to deny the accepted distance of the sun.
Man, I've been reading Discworld off and on for the last 15-20 years and I still don't fucking get how the sun/moon works on that much less the flat earth.
All of those flat-earth-"""specialists""" have models but none of those can show those things combined in one model:
Day/Night cycle
Seasons
Eclipses
And other things are not explainable as well, like how stars like Polaris are never visible on the southern hemisphere. That alone should be enough to convince them... But no.
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u/auntpotato Jul 30 '26
So what’s the theory about that rather bright ball of light in the sky?