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Okay, so according to you the sun is 32 miles in diameter and several only thousand miles away. Why don't you show us all this math you claim to have done to arrive at that figure.
Triangles. It's just trig.
You need two people, across an ocean from eachother will do.
Simultaneously, Each person takes a angle measurements to the sun. From that, you have two angles. And then you also have the distance between the two people. So, soa coa toa, you can you can find the other two lengths to the sun, because that's how triangles work. At your halfway distance between you and the other person, you have a 90 degree triangle, and then you can calculate the height to the sun.
It's not gonna work on a globe model, because you don't have convergence, you can't witness the sun at the angles simultaneously.
You follow?
That won't work as you say because "straight up" for the two people are in to different directions as they are on a round globe. They will also not have any idea how far away they really are from each other because that is determined in exactly a straight line between the two and that will go beneath the Earth's surface in a way they can't know based on what you've given.
Also, I asked for the math you used. You keep saying your math proves what the video you posted said about the sun being 32 miles wide and just a few thousand feet up in the sky. Just show us your calculations. I don't think you can.
Assume exact coordinates and they know.
And no, I don't assume they are on a globe, like you assume.
It works, it's triangles and math. You can't deny if you don't understand
I said show math. How hard is it? I can already see your false assumptions.