You know there are no actual measurements and I think that's what you said. Who's to say the flat earth isn't much much bigger. Do we even have accurate measurement for a globe? Didn't the "best scientists" recently say the "earth might be pear shaped"? It could be 30,000 or 40,000 miles. From what I've been seeing the land past the ice wall could be thousands and thousands of miles around the whole circle (or square for the Four Corners) and maybe we can't get to "the edge" yet. Weather and fuel. If it could be "pear shaped" when no other "planet" appears to be pear shaped, that would be problem for globe worshipers.Still not convinced I'm on a globe, flying and spinning and streaking through the firmament.Too bad that's not what all flat earthers concede the diameter to be.
https://www.metabunk.org/an-easy-ex...earth-by-observing-the-size-of-the-sun.t7252/
You said the lowest the Sun could appear is to perhaps touching the horizon. The most quoted diameter of the flat earth I've seen is 25,000 miles. If you were at the "south pole" of the flat earth (i.e. standing at the edge) then the lowest the Sun could ever appear is when it is on the opposite side of the disc during the December solstice. The Sun would be the distance from the edge to the north pole (180°) to the equator on the other side from you (another 90°) then down to 23.5° South to the Tropic of Capricorn. That is 293.5° of latitude, or 20,266 miles. At an altitude of 3000 miles then the Sun should still be 8.4° above the horizon. Even that is too far above the horizon for them to invoke their magical "vanishing point".
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