God doesn’t have balls but he does pitch tents.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    This image raises so many questions. Like… how far apart do flat-earthers think the Falkland Islands and Cape Town are from one another? Do they believe Australia is bigger than Russia and Canada. Why do they think the earth has a big cold spot right in the center of where all the sun lands?

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      how far apart do flat-earthers think the Falkland Islands and Cape Town are from one another

      ~320 km

      Do they believe Australia is bigger than Russia and Canada

      yes

      Why do they think the earth has a big cold spot right in the center of where all the sun lands?

      sun is like a big flashlight swinging around in circles. The center doesn’t get much light

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        6 months ago

        ~320 km

        That’s 1/12th the actual distance on a map that makes it look longer!

        yes

        negative

        sun is like a big flashlight swinging around in circles. The center doesn’t get much light

        But it would get the light continuously, 24 hours a day, rather than only during the daytime. Also, the sun would never set in the north pole. Or, maybe it would never rise? Argh! This is such bullshit.

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          6 months ago

          But it would get the light continuously, 24 hours a day, rather than only during the daytime. Also, the sun would never set in the north pole. Or, maybe it would never rise?

          it looks like this:

          the light spot is spinning around the center throughout the day

          I fucking love science btw

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            6 months ago

            the light spot is spinning around the center throughout the day

            Still shines disproportionately on the center, because of the energy/area. The outer ice wall makes a degree of sense, because the volume of area is so much larger than the radiation it receives. But the compressed interior space is getting far more energy by area, even if it exists at the edge of the spotlight. Areas closer to the center of the map should be, on average, much warmer than at the periphery.

            I fucking love science btw

            Definitely fun for thought experiments like this, even if they are fucking bonkers on their face.

            • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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              6 months ago

              I think if you introduced another layer of complexity with the sun oscillating in the r-direction (closer to the arctic during the north hemisphere summer and closer to the antarctic during the south hemisphere summer) it would make physical sense in that regard

              of course it’d still make no sense in several other aspects, like the fact that we have discrete sunsets/rises instead of the sun just gradually fading into darkness, and also the fact that the sun’s path is an arc (these are actually the same point kinda)