Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther

On 25 Aug 2024 09:01:02 GMT, G <g@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

In rec.arts.sf.written Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:

On 2024-08-23 20:00:58 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

 
Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/08/23
 
Oh no, they keep on popping up all over the place.
 
Lynn

 
Believing the Sun goes around the Earth or believing the Earth is flat
are too different stupidities, although some fools may well believe
both.  :-)

>
While, of course[*], there is no "official" flat earth model most, if not
all, the Flat earther believe that the sun is, somehow, circling above and
disappears because of "perspective".
>
[*]"Of course" because there is no way to have a model that explain all the
observations.

Ptolemy had the Sun rotating about the Earth (mostly, as I understand
it, because Aristotle did), but at the start of /Almagest/ there is a
section explaining why the Earth is not flat.

The basic idea is that, if it /were/ flat, every star [1] visible on a
particular night would be visible from every point on the Earth. But
this is not the case.

[1] If necessary, it can be conceded that some polar stars may be
hidden by the thickness of the flat earth except near the poles. This
is more about the way stars appear/disappear as you move towards and
beyond the Equator.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"