Any sailors here? How can a 243ft. Lighthouse be visible 44 miles away?
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Your book report not withstanding, the sun still sets and rises.
That is what you have been told and makes sense when you don't know any other possibilities
It's literally what I observe with my own eyes. And I questioned it, and tested both theories, but only one holds water. If I can falsify a theory based on my own observation and common sense I do.
Both theories? What was the second theory you tested?
One theory: Earth and Sun are sphere, therefore the sun sets.
Second theory: Your theory, the idea that the sun is just moving fair away while staying above the plane of the Earth.
Your theory is the one falsified by my observations of a sun set.