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[–] 24879094? ago 

Because the sun isn't millions of miles away.

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[–] 24879847? ago 

Can you draw me a diagram of this? I'm not getting it.

Here's my attempt to diagram it: https://files.catbox.moe/b804ni.png

As you can see, the problem that I have with the flat earth model is that the two observers see the sun as being in a very different direction. No matter how far away the sun is, those sight lines from observer 1 vs. observer 2 never converge. There's no way (that I can imagine) to make this work without having two different suns.

...or (as I show at the bottom) using a globe earth model. With a globe earth model, it's easy to understand how why one of them sees the sun above the horizon and the other one doesn't.