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mnice
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Right but they are the same pattern year after year and N star is same. If we were flying through space on a rock we would see different constellations and never the same one twice.
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Compared to some stars the sun moves at a blisteringly slow 20 km/s. With the least distance between stars being ~4.8 or so light years the difference in constellations, particularly
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those over 50-100 ly out, constellations could have no perceptible change over tens of thousands of years at least.
mnice
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The science community realized this flaw to the globe model and the only solution was to claim the stars are light years away. It's made up BS to keep the theory alive
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Smurf community realized that by sending nonsense posts about Flat Earth can keep the humans busy. Flat Earth is made up BS by smurfs like you to fool humans.
mnice
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Next time you're outside ask yourself if the sun looks like it's 93,000,000 miles away or if it's close and local. The answer is obvious
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I'm too busy looking for you, little bothering Smurfs. I don't have time to make very basic calculations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter
mnice
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There's no calculations to make. Just look at the sun. It's so obviously not 93,000,000 miles away I find it amazing anyone ever bought that as reality.
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If you look at it in a logical and analytical way you can realize how far it is. If your thought is guided by faith and prejudice, then you still live in dark middle ages.
Raineko
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The sun is obviously not close and local because over the course of the day it doesn't change in angular size, also it goes down the horizon and disappears from view.
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I'm not an expert, but my intuation says that the stars are so far away that in practice it is like the solar system were inside another sphere where the distant stars are projected.