Fwd: .how i calculated the distance to the sun using simple trigonometry.

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On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:11:05 AM UTC-7, h.s.n...@gmail.com wrote:

.title. .how i calculated the distance to the sun using simple trigonometry. i wrote an article in this usenet newsgroup soc.culture.indian on 18 apr 2014 fri deducing that the earth does not spin around its own axis at over 1000 miles per hour as your geography or astronomy book would have you infer. the article is copied below for reference. having concluded that the earth is not a spherical ball spinning around its own axis we may say that the earth is likely to be flat. using the flat earth model we are able to find the distance to the sun or to the moon or stars. i have calculated just that using the shadow line made by the sun in my room. the following link shows diagrammatically with notes what i did to calculate the distance to the sun. here is the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7lF1hUXdsV3bm1EV2Z5MS1VTEU/edit?usp=sharing .by simple trigonometry of similar triangles the angle made by the sun s rays to the vertical is used to calculate the distance to the sun. it is possible to measure the angle made by the sun s rays to the vertical by using a vertical bar or post. the tangent of the angle is the horizontal length of the shadow divided by the vertical length of the bar or post. now we have the information that the sun travels over 24000 miles in a day covering the world. that means a surface speed of over 1000 miles an hour. that means in 3 hours the sun will be a little over 3000 miles away. using the mid day sun as the marker for the position on earth if we calculate the angle of the shadow at about 0330 pm the tangent of the vertical angle of the shadow would be equal to the ratio of 3000 miles to the distance to the sun from earth. using this ratio we get that the distance to the sun is 3000 miles divided by the tangent of the vertical angle made by the sun. that gives a figure of 3666.66 miles for the distance from earth to the sun using a flat earth model. for a spherical earth model you would need to subtract 45 degrees from the vertical angle of the shadow in order to get the vertical angle made by the sun because the post itself would rotate 45 degrees in 3 hours. now i found that the vertical angle made by the shadow is itself less than 45 degrees at 0330 pm 3 hours past mid day in san jose california usa. that means we are not able to subtract 45 degrees from it. that means the spherical model of the earth is not correct. the implications of this kind of deduction would be that our knowledge of geography and astronomy is flawed. we have been told that the moon and the stars also go around the earth every day. it would be possible by the same method to calculate the distance to the moon and stars from earth. since the movement speeds of the moon and the stars are a little different from the sun s speed of over 24000 miles a day we would get a little different distances for the moon and the stars but not dramatically different as we have been taught in geography and astronomy. .end of message. .when. .date and time. 18 jun 2014 wed 0908 am. .from. .where. position. san jose public library. 150 east san fernando street. san jose. california. usa. ca 95112. .from. .who. h.s.nair111 at gmail.com . hemarajan shankaranarayanan nair .phone at apartment 408 294 2873. mobile 408 401 2954 . please note that my mobile phone does not work at my apartment .my articles are posted to. usenet newsgroup soc.culture.indian at http colon slash slash groups.google.com slash group slash soc.culture.indian slash .they are also posted to my group oneworld01 at http colon slash slash groups.google.com slash group slash oneworld01 slash. .signature is use a network of trees not circles or meshes to connect the world is signature. my post to this usenet newsgroup soc.culture.indian on why the earth is not spinning around its own axis is shown below. On Friday, April 18, 2014 9:43:25 AM UTC-7, h.s.n...@gmail.com wrote:

    .title. .the earth is not spinning at over 1000 miles an hour as your geography text book would infer. The circumference of the earth is 21600 nautical miles or 24861.6 statute miles at the equator. 1 nautical mile is 1 minute of arc length at the meridian or equator. There are 60 x 360 or 21600 minutes in 360 degrees of longitude around the earth. Now we have been taught in geography and astronomy that the earth is rotating around its own axis once every 24 hours. That is 24861.6 miles every 24 hours. That gives a land speed of over 1000 miles per hour. What would happen to the air or water if the land is moving at over 1000 miles per hour. The air and water would not go with the land. That means the water would inundate the land and the air would zip past the land at over 1000 miles an hour. Water would not be contained in oceans lakes and ponds as you see it happening. We do not see the air zipping past us at over 1000 miles an hour either. Therefore there is something wrong in what your geography or astronomy text book told you about the earth and the sun moon and stars. Is it a flat earth after all. Or is it all what you see in your eye. Maya. .end of message. .when. .date and time. 18 apr 2014 fri 0937 am. .from. .where. position. san jose public library. 150 east san fernando street. san jose. california. usa. ca 95112. .from. .who. h.s.nair111 at gmail.com . hemarajan shankaranarayanan nair .phone at apartment 408 294 2873. mobile 408 401 2954 . please note that my mobile phone does not work at my apartment .my articles are posted to. usenet newsgroup soc.culture.indian at http colon slash slash groups.google.com slash group slash soc.culture.indian slash .they are also posted to my group oneworld01 at http colon slash slash groups.google.com slash group slash oneworld01 slash. .signature is spherical model of the earth is signature.