Mick West | Debunked: The "Coin on a Table" Flat Earth Model of Sunset @MickWest | Uploaded May 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
If you slide a coin away from you on a table it will vanish from the bottom up. But ONLY if the camera is a bit below the top of the table, or if the table bows up a bit in the middle. Yet this observation is often used to try to explain Flat Earth sunsets.
If you do the experiment on something that's ACTUALLY flat (like a 48" carpenter's level), and you keep the camera above it (like you are above the surface of the earth), then you will see nothing vanishes.
And of course, the sun does not glide away from you while touching the ocean. It's high in the sky at noon, and then sets behind the horizon. If it were moving away from you it would get smaller, and closer to the horizon, but would not actually get there.
If you slide a coin away from you on a table it will vanish from the bottom up. But ONLY if the camera is a bit below the top of the table, or if the table bows up a bit in the middle. Yet this observation is often used to try to explain Flat Earth sunsets.
If you do the experiment on something that's ACTUALLY flat (like a 48" carpenter's level), and you keep the camera above it (like you are above the surface of the earth), then you will see nothing vanishes.
And of course, the sun does not glide away from you while touching the ocean. It's high in the sky at noon, and then sets behind the horizon. If it were moving away from you it would get smaller, and closer to the horizon, but would not actually get there.