>>23866887Oooh, oooh, I've heard this one, and I kind of like it.
The sun and moon are point source lights hung from the firmament, travelling on a roughly circular path following the equator. The heights and diameters are such that at roughly the vanishing point, they appear to converge with the landscape.
I didn't say it made sense, just that I liked it.
The southern sky makes no sense on a flat earth. South is directly outward - so how is everyone observing something like Crux looking in the same direction?
That flight from Sydney to Santiago also makes no sense. If the circumference of the equator's about 40,000km, then something around the ring of the tropic of capricorn would have to be about 43,500km (at minimum), and 46200km (ish, minimum) around 30-ish degrees south. At 138degrees (the short path between Sydney's 151E to Santiago's 70W), the distance would be 17719km. To do that in 17h (per the LATAM direct flight), it would have to travel 1040km/h... about 100km/h over cruising AGAINST the jet stream.
