Once the moon gets far enough away, and you watch it at, say a 0.01 degree angel, then our view of it will be blocked by literally anything between us and where the moon would appear to us in the distance.
Give me numbers then. What's the diameter of the flat earth and how far is the moon from the surface? Then we can check if it's even possible to get a 0.01 degree angle, even from edge to edge.
Visually, vision of the moon is blocked by the horizon. Physically, it is not blocked. As I said, get an optical zoom device, and you can increase you vision range.
In your mind, what is the difference between visually blocking vs physically blocking? How can you simultaneously belive that there exists an uninterrupted line of sight that light can take, but also that something blocks it along that path? That's what you're saying when you tell me that the horizon blocks it: that the light that would have otherwise reached your eyes was blocked by the horizon AKA the ground far away. It's either a clear line of sight or it isn't. It can't be both at the same time.
From your perspective, it is not a clear line of sight.
An object far enough away gets visually blocked due to how perspective works. Once the horizon has risen to eye level, that is the extent of the range of what you can see, at eye level.
I made this drawing for you to show how your vision gets physically blocked.
Distance that we are given from the north pole to the south pole is 12400 miles, so you can times that with two. So the diameter of the known flat earth, is around 24800 miles. While the height of the moon would be at around 3000 miles above the earth. Good luck with the checking.
I'm on mobile now but i did some calculations, i can upload pictures later.
But given those parameters, a person standing anywhere on the south pole (which i understand to be any point in the outer edge of the disc) at sea level, and a moon that is at the opposite side of the disc (~25K miles away from the person) and 3K miles above sea level, the smallest angle possible is about 6.8 degrees, not 0.01.
But that's not necessarily conclusive, we just have to figure out what it would take to obstruct this person's view of the moon in this scenario, since this is the worst case scenario (the furthest a person can be from the moon while still on the flat earth.
So what could block this guy's view of the moon? Well, if he's 6ft tall then any 7ft obstacle could do it, IF right in front of him. In the other extreme, any 3001 mile obstacle could also block his view of the moon, even if said obstacle was at the opposite side of the disc.
So what's the tallest possible obstacle? Mt Everest at 5.5 miles. Doesn't seem like much, and after some math it clearly isn't. Given the scenario above, even mount Everest itself would not be tall enough to block your view of the moon, unless it was within 45 miles of you. In other words, if you are 46 miles away from mt everest, then it won't block your view of the moon, even if the moon was as far away as could be.
Now there could be less tall obstacles than mt everest that could still block your view, provided that they are closer. But still, 45 miles is a very small area. Given these numbers, you could go to any point in the ocean that is 4 miles from any shore, and the moon would always be visible from there (because 45 miles from the shore means Everest is even farther, and you're at sea so there's nothing else out there to obstruct your view). There are hundreds of places that you could visit to test that theory. Thousands.
But even putting all this math aside, I realized that your model would also imply that the moon is always visible from the tallest point on earth. Because there's nothing blocking you. But this is clearly not the case, or at least i don't think you belive that but please tell me if I'm wrong.
Tldr i don't think your model aligns with observable reality.
Your calculations is based on a side view, not from the perspective of the person.
All parallel lines going away from you will converge to a point in the distance, where the ground meets the sky, or appears to. The horizon will rise to eye level at about 3 miles away from you, when standing on the ground. This is how perspective works.
Here is a video of p-brane explaining this to you. Watch it if you want:
THE SUN SETS JUST FINE ON A FLAT EARTH - THE MATHS ARE WRONG perspective
Once the moon gets far enough away, and you watch it at, say a 0.01 degree angel, then our view of it will be blocked by literally anything between us and where the moon would appear to us in the distance.
Give me numbers then. What's the diameter of the flat earth and how far is the moon from the surface? Then we can check if it's even possible to get a 0.01 degree angle, even from edge to edge.
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Visually, vision of the moon is blocked by the horizon. Physically, it is not blocked. As I said, get an optical zoom device, and you can increase you vision range.
In your mind, what is the difference between visually blocking vs physically blocking? How can you simultaneously belive that there exists an uninterrupted line of sight that light can take, but also that something blocks it along that path? That's what you're saying when you tell me that the horizon blocks it: that the light that would have otherwise reached your eyes was blocked by the horizon AKA the ground far away. It's either a clear line of sight or it isn't. It can't be both at the same time.
From your perspective, it is not a clear line of sight.
An object far enough away gets visually blocked due to how perspective works. Once the horizon has risen to eye level, that is the extent of the range of what you can see, at eye level.
I made this drawing for you to show how your vision gets physically blocked.
https://ibb.co/mhyv2Jt
Distance that we are given from the north pole to the south pole is 12400 miles, so you can times that with two. So the diameter of the known flat earth, is around 24800 miles. While the height of the moon would be at around 3000 miles above the earth. Good luck with the checking.
I'm on mobile now but i did some calculations, i can upload pictures later.
But given those parameters, a person standing anywhere on the south pole (which i understand to be any point in the outer edge of the disc) at sea level, and a moon that is at the opposite side of the disc (~25K miles away from the person) and 3K miles above sea level, the smallest angle possible is about 6.8 degrees, not 0.01.
But that's not necessarily conclusive, we just have to figure out what it would take to obstruct this person's view of the moon in this scenario, since this is the worst case scenario (the furthest a person can be from the moon while still on the flat earth.
So what could block this guy's view of the moon? Well, if he's 6ft tall then any 7ft obstacle could do it, IF right in front of him. In the other extreme, any 3001 mile obstacle could also block his view of the moon, even if said obstacle was at the opposite side of the disc.
So what's the tallest possible obstacle? Mt Everest at 5.5 miles. Doesn't seem like much, and after some math it clearly isn't. Given the scenario above, even mount Everest itself would not be tall enough to block your view of the moon, unless it was within 45 miles of you. In other words, if you are 46 miles away from mt everest, then it won't block your view of the moon, even if the moon was as far away as could be.
Now there could be less tall obstacles than mt everest that could still block your view, provided that they are closer. But still, 45 miles is a very small area. Given these numbers, you could go to any point in the ocean that is 4 miles from any shore, and the moon would always be visible from there (because 45 miles from the shore means Everest is even farther, and you're at sea so there's nothing else out there to obstruct your view). There are hundreds of places that you could visit to test that theory. Thousands.
But even putting all this math aside, I realized that your model would also imply that the moon is always visible from the tallest point on earth. Because there's nothing blocking you. But this is clearly not the case, or at least i don't think you belive that but please tell me if I'm wrong.
Tldr i don't think your model aligns with observable reality.
Your calculations is based on a side view, not from the perspective of the person.
All parallel lines going away from you will converge to a point in the distance, where the ground meets the sky, or appears to. The horizon will rise to eye level at about 3 miles away from you, when standing on the ground. This is how perspective works.
Here is a video of p-brane explaining this to you. Watch it if you want:
THE SUN SETS JUST FINE ON A FLAT EARTH - THE MATHS ARE WRONG perspective
https://youtu.be/W0Gx1vD1CRE