Debunking the flat Earth model.
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In the video you sent, at the 18:38 mark, he claims that Octantis is circling the southern rim of the flat Earth. But due to perspective, it converges at one point.
“Even though it is circling across your field of view, it is still going to be converged at one point.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t30-YbayyXE
IF, the SCP circles across to the whole southern rim of the flat Earth, THEN we would see considerable movement throughout the night.
So, show me a time-lapse that shows Octantis (SCP) moving across the field of view. Just one.
The SCP converges at one point, due to how perspective works. Octantis will appear to move in a small circle to us, due to how far away it is, as you get closer, it will rise in the night sky. According to the flat earth model, we would not see Octantis move much across the night sky, as it will appear to converge at a single point to us.
“Even though it is circling across your field of view, it is still going to be converged at one point.”
That is not the way he explains it in the video. “Converged at one point,” is in reference to it circling at one point, NOT it being stationary in the sky. He specifically says it will move across your field of view a couple times in the video.
At 17:17 he says,
“Well the stars move around at each other’s night time.” (Actual quote, he talks funny)
That is in reference to how different people looking south at different parts of the equator would see the same stars (but at different times).
The video you presented SPECIFICALLY says the southern stars will move across the field of vision and throughout the night so that people anywhere south of the Equator will see the same stars, but at different times.
If that was true there should be lateral movement throughout the night. That movement would get picked up in time-lapse photography. So, show me the movement.
He says that even as they physically rotates around the North star, at 12000 miles away from the North star, they will converge at a single point, no matter where on earth you are looking at them, as long as you are looking in a southward direction. That is because of how perspective works, proven by anti crespycular sun rays.
At the 17 minutes mark he specifically says otherwise. Perhaps he is just contradictory.
Stand on railroad tracks and you will experience the same optical illusion as anticrepuscular rays. As the railroad gets further away, it will appear to get less wide and eventually converge at a point. Like a football shape, with the widest part being where you are standing. But in reality, the road is parallel. The same thing happens to the Sun’s rays. The rays are not actually spreading out and then coming back together. They are parallel.
If the Sun’s rays are not parallel, find me ONE example where the observer is not right underneath the widest part. Just like standing on railroad tracks, the perceived widest part is at the observer and it gets narrower in either direction.