Going forward don't try to read into or redefine the language I used to fit your argument. Thanks friend.

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wait what

👍

got it

!rank

<:XMARK6:403540169992568833> **IS_EARTH_FLAT?**, this command is disabled in this channel

Oof

@Sciwave

aren't all those pictures with divergent rays altered pictures

they don't look like it was taken by a cellphone

and that cardboard divergent illustration

the beams look *way* too bright with the hand being still illuminated

the light source to have pure white beams would have to be really powerful

or have to go through a fog

to see the beams better which I'm going to assume here

what you're describing are crepuscular waves

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Crepuscular_Rays_Reno_Nevada_USA.jpg/330px-Crepuscular_Rays_Reno_Nevada_USA.jpg

here's an example

are you sure that isn't just the tide moving in

idk how long that timelapse is

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Sun_over_Lake_Hawea%2C_New_Zealand.jpg/675px-Sun_over_Lake_Hawea%2C_New_Zealand.jpg

another image of the rays

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Crepuscular_Rays%2C_India.JPG/450px-Crepuscular_Rays%2C_India.JPG

as seen from above ^

Shining through openings in clouds (particularly stratocumulus[citation needed]) or between other objects such as mountains, these columns of sunlit scattering particles are separated by darker shadowed volumes. Despite converging toward the light source, the rays are essentially parallel shafts of sunlit and shadowed particles. Their apparent convergence in the sky is a visual illusion from linear perspective. This illusion is the same as railway lines' or long hallways' appearing to converge at a distant vanishing point.

here's an explanation

i can get sources if you need them

here's one source: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/air/crp.rxml

another source: https://astrobob.areavoices.com/2011/07/10/crepuscular-rays-a-tale-of-sunbeams-diverging-in-the-blue-sky/

Nasty NASA source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/76261/crepuscular-rays-india

also I find it hard to believe that a sun 0.04% the size of the earth can light up half of it

going with the 32 miles number you cited

also notice how almost every picture with divergent rays had clouds in them

not saying correlation = causation

but the evidence seems pretty solid here that the sun isn't divergent