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Flat Earth Theory / Does a sunset behind Canigou peak prove Flat Earth?
« on: September 29, 2018, 01:05:41 AM »
In November and February from several locations near Marseille, e.g. the city of Allauch, people can watch the sun set behind Canigou peak, a mountain in the Pyrenees about 160 miles in the distance. This video showing this sunset is taken on February 4 2011:
When we use timeanddate.com to look up time and direction of this sunset on 02-04-2011 in Allauch, it will tell us the sun did set at 17:53 and the geographical direction of this sunset was 248° (South is 180° and west is 270°), so the direction in which the sunset is visible is 22° south of west:
If I take a map of France (I used Google earth for this occasion, but every other map of France will do) and I draw a line from Allauch to Canigou peak, we see that timeanddate is correct about the cardinal direction, Canigou peak is indeed located about 22° SW of Allauch:
Now the question is, does this match with a flat earth sun circling horizontally around the North Pole? To answer this question I used the Gleason map (Also referred to in the FES' WIKI, https://wiki.tfes.org/Flat_Earth_Maps)
The white cross I've put on this map indicates the geographical directions as seen from Allauch, Allauch is in the centre of the cross.
The black arrow indicates the geographical direction the observer has to look to see Canigou peak from Allauch, and of course the direction to see the sun set on 4 Februari.
The red arrow indicates where the sun will be above a flat earth when at 17.53 the sun sets in Allauch.
The map is divided by 24 lines of longitude, so the sun has to move one such line every hour to make a full circle a day. Starting south from Allauch at noon, almost 6 hours later (at sunset) the sun has moved almost 90°
This indicates that if the sun is circling above a flat earth and around the North pole, In Marseille & Allauch the sun will have to set in winter around 3 o'clock in the afternoon (position B) to make a sunset behind Canigou peak possible, or a sunset at 17:53 will happen ± 50° north of that mountain (position C).
How does your FET solve this conflict between observation and the existing FE models to make this sunset a proof for a flat earth? Or with other words, how can a sunset in Allauch "debunk the ball" if on a flat earth such a Mediterranean sunset can never happen?
When we use timeanddate.com to look up time and direction of this sunset on 02-04-2011 in Allauch, it will tell us the sun did set at 17:53 and the geographical direction of this sunset was 248° (South is 180° and west is 270°), so the direction in which the sunset is visible is 22° south of west:
If I take a map of France (I used Google earth for this occasion, but every other map of France will do) and I draw a line from Allauch to Canigou peak, we see that timeanddate is correct about the cardinal direction, Canigou peak is indeed located about 22° SW of Allauch:
Now the question is, does this match with a flat earth sun circling horizontally around the North Pole? To answer this question I used the Gleason map (Also referred to in the FES' WIKI, https://wiki.tfes.org/Flat_Earth_Maps)
The white cross I've put on this map indicates the geographical directions as seen from Allauch, Allauch is in the centre of the cross.
The black arrow indicates the geographical direction the observer has to look to see Canigou peak from Allauch, and of course the direction to see the sun set on 4 Februari.
The red arrow indicates where the sun will be above a flat earth when at 17.53 the sun sets in Allauch.
The map is divided by 24 lines of longitude, so the sun has to move one such line every hour to make a full circle a day. Starting south from Allauch at noon, almost 6 hours later (at sunset) the sun has moved almost 90°
This indicates that if the sun is circling above a flat earth and around the North pole, In Marseille & Allauch the sun will have to set in winter around 3 o'clock in the afternoon (position B) to make a sunset behind Canigou peak possible, or a sunset at 17:53 will happen ± 50° north of that mountain (position C).
How does your FET solve this conflict between observation and the existing FE models to make this sunset a proof for a flat earth? Or with other words, how can a sunset in Allauch "debunk the ball" if on a flat earth such a Mediterranean sunset can never happen?