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[–] 24881562? ago 

the sun doesn‘t go down when it is dark

Friend, I have watched the sunset. I have been outside and watched it.

It‘s light merely doesn‘t reach us, hence inverse square law.

Yes, a light gets dimmer when it gets farther away. The rate at which it gets dimmer is governed by the inverse square law. You are correct about that. But the sun doesn't get dimmer it "sets" - it goes below the horizon. And you can build an instrument yourself (not NASA, not government scientists who could like to you - you can do this yourself) to measure the apparent size of the sun at full noon and at sunset and you can see that it's not getting markedly farther away.

It doesn't get dimmer. It goes below the horizon. Other people, in other parts of the world still see it above the horizon. I'm asking you to explain the position, not the brightness.

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[–] 24884372? ago 

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: given a model like this: https://files.catbox.moe/9y3dhw.png

And the explanation given in that video, it is possible to create a map of the Earth which shows every point on the Earth where the sun is visible above the horizon, and every point on Earth where the sun is not visible above the horizon