Quote from: Betwrong on October 07, 2015, 07:54:31 AM

Quote from: notbatman on October 07, 2015, 05:53:15 AM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 07, 2015, 02:03:23 AM

Quote from: notbatman on October 06, 2015, 05:30:26 PM

they re-enforce that the idea that the Sun is a massive object when it's only 32 miles across

The sun is only 32 miles across?

Ehhhhh NO.

More like 80,000 miles across.

Using a sextant I can prove that the Sun is in fact only 32 miles across.

What proof do you have that the Sun is 80k miles across?

A scientist who in 1899 claimed the diameter of the Sun is only 32 miles said this:

"The sun is only 32 miles across and not more than 3,000 miles from Earth"

And I don't blame him because it was long before all the space missions which proved that at the distance 3,000 miles from Earth there is no Sun.

And after measuring with a sextant he said:

"'The sun is always somewhere between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, a distance admitted to be less than 3,000 miles"

Which is also not true according to data provided by NASA.

But I can see your point (I am saying this without irony), NASA is maybe lying, right?

I don't think NASA is lying but that is just my opinion, I may be wrong.

Well it's up to you what you prefer to believe. The reading a sextant gives or 3rd party information from an agency formed after WW2 from operation paperclip where they imported all the Nazis and gave them high paying jobs and positions of power within the US gov.

Political propaganda/psyop or reading the numbers off a gauge, the choice is yours.