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To: philman_36

Visually, my car looks smaller, as it approaches the vanishing point. Why doesn’t the sun look visibly smaller as it approaches the vanishing point, unless it remains at a nearly constant distance from the observer?

I have addressed many of your querys. You have yet to answer my question. Once we deal with this issue, we can move on to others.


187 posted on 07/03/2018 6:19:40 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51
Visually, my car looks smaller, as it approaches the vanishing point.
But it isn't, in and of itself, smaller, right?
See above...forced perspective. And that isn't anywhere near the vanishing point. At the vanishing point you wouldn't be able to see it...unless you had a binoculars or a telephoto lens which would bring it back into view! Why doesn’t the sun look visibly smaller as it approaches the vanishing point, unless it remains at a nearly constant distance from the observer?
You're the answer man, you tell me what your reasoning is. I can't seem to satisfy you with anything.
Show me evidence, like I did with the encroaching darkness of the traveling sun.

You have yet to answer my question.
No answer seems to satisfy you. You don't accept perspective as an answer, you don't accept that an object reappears larger under magnification despite it being at or beyond the vanishing point, you don't accept forced perspective...I don't know what else will satisfy you.
You tell me what the answer is.

Once we deal with this issue, we can move on to others.
Please! Surely you can walk and chew gum at the same time. It seems to me that you don't want to address it.

193 posted on 07/03/2018 6:43:58 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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