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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
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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:
>>>=20
>>> Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
>>>     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/08/23
>>>=20
>>> Oh no, they keep on popping up all over the place.
>>>=20
>>> Lynn
>>=20
>> Believing the Sun goes around the Earth or believing the Earth is flat=
=20
>> are too different stupidities, although some fools may well believe=20
>> 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.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"