This is literally part of standard flat earth models. The sun flies around in a circle above the earth, and when it gets far enough away from your location, that’s sunset/night.
I don’t know how they deal with the lack of change in the sun’s apparent diameter.
Edit: Looked it up. It’s due to “atmospheric distortion.”
There's some really amazing world building that's been done with flat-earth art as a springboard
Can't remember the name, but there's one with concentric circles separated by ice walls with landmasses named after different mythologies' deities. There's a whole community built around writing lore for each landmass
Even old Christians knew the earth was a sphere. The "Catholics believe the earth is flat" was something said by someone AGAINST Catholics, not because it was true.
They knew for sure. They just didn't know much about the layout and mechanics of the solar system. The Earth centric model was the thing. But only because they didn't have good enough tools to observe otherwise. When they got better telescopes and mathematics, learned better.
It would have to be, else the whole thing would be so massive, it would risk collapsing into a star. Except stars are smaller than planets in that picture, so never mind.
Oh I don’t remember that detail, thanks. For some reason I thought the ashmounts were at the equator and everybody was clustered around those - I might need a reread just to brush up on the world building lol
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 122d
I love that the sun supposedly melts a spot, but helpfully leaves the arctic ice sheet in the center.
stenAanden@feddit.dk · 93 pts · 122d
Because the sun rotates around that part, duh
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 122d
starik@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 120d
This is literally part of standard flat earth models. The sun flies around in a circle above the earth, and when it gets far enough away from your location, that’s sunset/night.
I don’t know how they deal with the lack of change in the sun’s apparent diameter.
Edit: Looked it up. It’s due to “atmospheric distortion.”
wjrii@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 122d
I also love that this version of flat earth theory is perfectly okay with our living on the surface of a huge spherical object floating in space.
marcos@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 122d
The sphere is so big that it will appear as flat for any purpose you can think of.
Oh, wait...
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 20 pts · 122d
They've come around in the end, it seems
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 122d
🥁🐍
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 121d
So many hoops to jump through only to theorize that we are in fact on a spheroid planet...
Sualtam@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 120d
I guess this is mocking flat earthers. Not a real claim they make.
troybot@piefed.social · 12 pts · 122d
That's where Santa Claus lives. It's pretty obvious that he uses his magic to make the snow and ice so that every day is Christmas.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 121d
Because the sun likes cold drinks
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 121d
There's obviously a gigantic magnifying glass between the Sun an Earth!
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 68 pts · 122d
Flat earth would be so cool if it was just sci-fantasy authors and not weird, return to christandom, anti-modernity types.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 122d
So, the Discworld. Yes, it is very cool.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 122d
They really do ruin everything
Rudee@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 122d
There's some really amazing world building that's been done with flat-earth art as a springboard
Can't remember the name, but there's one with concentric circles separated by ice walls with landmasses named after different mythologies' deities. There's a whole community built around writing lore for each landmass
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 121d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Forward
Michael Marshall Smith does this theme, only different.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 8 pts · 122d
Even old Christians knew the earth was a sphere. The "Catholics believe the earth is flat" was something said by someone AGAINST Catholics, not because it was true.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 122d
The return to christandom thing is just something they say, it's not exactly true.
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
They knew for sure. They just didn't know much about the layout and mechanics of the solar system. The Earth centric model was the thing. But only because they didn't have good enough tools to observe otherwise. When they got better telescopes and mathematics, learned better.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 120d
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 122d
Wiffleball Earth Therory
18107@aussie.zone · 30 pts · 122d
Why a sphere? Why not a torus?
BambiDiego@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 122d
Don't be silly, it's Turtles all the way down, not bulls
deft@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 121d
We could use a lady of pain around here..
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d
I loves me some touruses....If I could make that doughnut in Blender I would spend all day just doing that.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 122d
It's the "possibly hollow" for me
starik@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 120d
It would have to be, else the whole thing would be so massive, it would risk collapsing into a star. Except stars are smaller than planets in that picture, so never mind.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 19 pts · 122d
Why would the very center of the melted puddle also be just as cold and frozen as the edges?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 122d
The Sun orbits around the center, but its hottest side always faces away. That's why seasons happen
Tiral@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 122d
Shhhh honey, we don't use logic here. Just let it happen.
boogiebored@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 122d
i love it, i’m in
BigBrownDog@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 122d
If this is true, then why does my wife want to leave me for Devin from her work?
sundray@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 122d
He has a big dick.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 122d
Devin knows the truth.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
Flat Devin theory. How much is a bulldozer?
Watermark710@piefed.social · 1 pts · 120d
His balls aren't hollow.
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 120d
OK, I love the big ice ball theory. However, I think the big ice ball might actually be flat. Idk would make more sense to me.
Alberat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d
but that flat ice ball is on a ball of lava
liuther9@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
And in fact this is not a lava but just a floor
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 121d
So you're saying it's a sphere..
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 121d
This is probably what it felt like to the first explorers trying to cross either pole.
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 122d
gonna tell my children that this was the snowball earth hypothesis
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 122d
...This is just Mistborn.
Or Disco Elysium for the multiple earths option.
felsiq@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 122d
Wait what? What did mistborn have that was like this? My memory of era 1 is a little foggy and I assume that’s when you’re talking about
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 121d
Haha foggy
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
IIRC, the habitable region of Era 1 was essentially a radius around the north pole.
felsiq@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 121d
Oh I don’t remember that detail, thanks. For some reason I thought the ashmounts were at the equator and everybody was clustered around those - I might need a reread just to brush up on the world building lol
osanna@lemmy.vg · 5 pts · 120d
Wait, they believe it’s a sphere of ice but not of rock?
mortalblade@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 122d
so were just a bunch of apes duking it out on a giant disco ball essentially...
sundray@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 122d
bald spot
Karl@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 120d
Are they progressing forward..... or backward?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 121d
Snowball or Slushball earth..
Hollow earth theory was also a thing.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 120d
This is why Global Warming is such a big deal to Flat Earthers. They don't want EarCe to collapse...