Okay, because I know Dave will never do it. I've taken it upon myself to do what I suggested he do in my last post.
Here goes nothin'....
Everyone go to the 10:00 minute mark on the video that Dave posted in post #2842
There you will see a mountain looming above the city of Santa Monica, CA.
I've spent some time trying to figure out just which buildings we are seeing in the video and I'm almost completely certain that basically centered in the video is the Santa Monica Pier. The two twin towers on the left side of the screen is the Pacific Plaza, which is an apartment building and the dark looking building (it isn't really dark, remember this is infrared) just left of the center of the image is a building called Le Meridien Delfina Santa Monica.
Here's a pic of a near recreation of the videos image of the city that I created on Google Earth.
View attachment 26618
So, the Pacific Plaza apartment building is 179.81ft tall. (Source)
The video claims to be at 34.032204 n, 118.702984 w, which lines up perfectly with what I see on Google Earth.
The distance from that location and the southern tower of the Pacific Plaza apartment building is 11.9 miles.
That distance is plausible also because the camera is not at sea level and neither is that building. They are both elevated. The camera is about 150 ft above sea level and the street level at the building is about 75ft. Also, the camera position is likely not precisely at those coordinates. Chances are it's up on the concrete at the top of that hill it's on, which would put the camera at 200ft above sea level. None of which really matters but I just wanted to point out as many details as possible.
So, the angular size of a 179.81 ft object from 11.9 miles away, would be 0.16397°
As I have already calculated, Mt. San Jacinto would be almost exactly 1° in angular size.
1 / 0.16397 = 6.09
Does the Pacific Plaza building look to be 1/6th the size of the mountain?
NO!
It looks like the mountain is just over three times as big as the building in terms of angular size. (That's based on the apparent size of the building in the video, not on the ridiculous scale that the videographer puts on the video which seems to be arbitrarily set at the beaches edge rather than at anything that looks like a horizon.)
So the relative sizes of the buildings in the foreground vs. the size of that mountain is off by a factor of two.
If that were a real image of the mountain from that distance on a flat Earth, then in order for those buildings to be the apparent size that they are, they would be located about 8.5 miles away.
(That's a rough number because I don't have the precise angular size of the building. Using the scale on the video @ 10:30, the building appears to be approximately 4 mrads in angular size which converts to .229° which is the number I used to calculate that distance.)
All of that is assuming a flat Earth and the video's own claims about what is being seen and from where!
And, once again, math proves the video a fake. As if anyone with a brain needed proof.
Clete
Here goes nothin'....
Everyone go to the 10:00 minute mark on the video that Dave posted in post #2842
There you will see a mountain looming above the city of Santa Monica, CA.
I've spent some time trying to figure out just which buildings we are seeing in the video and I'm almost completely certain that basically centered in the video is the Santa Monica Pier. The two twin towers on the left side of the screen is the Pacific Plaza, which is an apartment building and the dark looking building (it isn't really dark, remember this is infrared) just left of the center of the image is a building called Le Meridien Delfina Santa Monica.
Here's a pic of a near recreation of the videos image of the city that I created on Google Earth.
View attachment 26618
So, the Pacific Plaza apartment building is 179.81ft tall. (Source)
The video claims to be at 34.032204 n, 118.702984 w, which lines up perfectly with what I see on Google Earth.
The distance from that location and the southern tower of the Pacific Plaza apartment building is 11.9 miles.
That distance is plausible also because the camera is not at sea level and neither is that building. They are both elevated. The camera is about 150 ft above sea level and the street level at the building is about 75ft. Also, the camera position is likely not precisely at those coordinates. Chances are it's up on the concrete at the top of that hill it's on, which would put the camera at 200ft above sea level. None of which really matters but I just wanted to point out as many details as possible.
So, the angular size of a 179.81 ft object from 11.9 miles away, would be 0.16397°
As I have already calculated, Mt. San Jacinto would be almost exactly 1° in angular size.
1 / 0.16397 = 6.09
Does the Pacific Plaza building look to be 1/6th the size of the mountain?
NO!
It looks like the mountain is just over three times as big as the building in terms of angular size. (That's based on the apparent size of the building in the video, not on the ridiculous scale that the videographer puts on the video which seems to be arbitrarily set at the beaches edge rather than at anything that looks like a horizon.)
So the relative sizes of the buildings in the foreground vs. the size of that mountain is off by a factor of two.
If that were a real image of the mountain from that distance on a flat Earth, then in order for those buildings to be the apparent size that they are, they would be located about 8.5 miles away.
(That's a rough number because I don't have the precise angular size of the building. Using the scale on the video @ 10:30, the building appears to be approximately 4 mrads in angular size which converts to .229° which is the number I used to calculate that distance.)
All of that is assuming a flat Earth and the video's own claims about what is being seen and from where!
And, once again, math proves the video a fake. As if anyone with a brain needed proof.
Clete
