he's a globe believer

I think u missed the point

doctor, he never actually reads the things he quotes

I watched the videos

he assumes he is right, and uses that to ignore everything else

the basic geometry on day 1 teaches taht you tkae 2 points to draw a line

3 points to define a plane

Red's video was in response to one by Jeranism. In that video, Jeran claimed that the distance and size of the Sun were randomly chosen, and that the only way you could determine the actual distance was by guessing, since scale invariance makes it impossible to tell between a small, close thing and a distant, large thing. Red corrected him by explaining the trigonometry used to calculate the distance to the sun. It had nothing to do with proving the shape of the Earth, it was simply to correct him on his methods.

4 points to definite 3 dimensions

when your dealing with trig they move way beyond that

Etc. To figure out where something is in 3D space, you need three points.

they are dealing with apparent size

did you watch the video?

Yes. Apparent size is scale invariant, you can't tell just by looking whether it's near or far.

That was the point of the first video, and Jeranism's video that Red was responding to.

Red corrected Jeranism in that you can use other methods besides eye-balling to determine distance.

Then Globebusters responded to Red's video, missing the point completely, accusing Red of assuming the Earth is a globe, when all he was doing was correcting Jeran on his methods.

I've watched people do the math

I must agree with the18thdoctor

those videos are highly irrational

gotta work on that trig

using pythagorean theorem they calculate the distance of the sun at 93,000,000 miles away

but they assume we live on a curve to get that distance

and as soon as you flatten that curve, it changes to 3,400 miles away for the sun

no?

so your assuming you live on a ball, and based on that assumption you can calculate the sun's distance

I've watched people do it

that's not how it's done

that is exactly how it is done

you assume the curve, say its 93,000,000 away, and then that proves the globe

well, that doesn't prove diddly

both models work with the math

not how it's done

math alone doesn't confirm reality

I can look at the sun, and see where the light is coming from off of it

math might not

mathematical formulas certainly do

e=mc^2

light is local